1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,800 Even if the IA NEO slide was the worst product ever, 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,760 which it's not, I probably still love it because this is the cutest packaging 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:15,480 that I think I have ever seen for anything ever. You slide a little VHS tape box out of a VHS tape sleeve 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:22,240 and inside you are getting one of the most unique handheld gaming PCs that we have seen yet. 5 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:25,280 We're expecting performance to be about on par 6 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,880 with devices like the Lenovo Legion Go and the Seuss ROG Ally, 7 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:33,280 since it's using a Ryzen 7 7840U, 8 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:39,360 which is functionally the same as the Z1 Extreme except it has some additional AI nonsense bolted onto it. 9 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:44,680 But you are getting it in a form factor that might be a little bit on the thick boy side, 10 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,840 but includes a full freaking physical keyboard. 11 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,840 I mean, that's one of the biggest pain points when you're using anything other than a Steam Deck. 12 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,080 Windows is just not designed to be used 13 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:03,760 with joysticks and buttons. And boom, having access to a keyboard like that, 14 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:08,880 combined with IA NEO's ISPAY software, which has pretty good joy to mouse 15 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:13,280 the last time that I touched it, should make it a lot easier to do things like 16 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,880 enter a product key or log into your Microsoft account 17 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,400 or just all that crap that you have to do with Windows. 18 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,400 Let's have a look at accessories real quick. All black, just matte black, absolutely everything. 19 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,640 Nice compact power brick. This bad boy will do up to 65 watts. 20 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,120 Love to see it. Also love that it uses a detachable cable 21 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,440 so that I'm not stuck with whatever length they happen to ship me. 22 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,440 Oh, various region adapters for the wall ward. 23 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,720 It looks like it comes with the North American one, pre-installed at least for me. 24 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:49,840 This is cool though. I also get a couple of USB-C to USB-A dongles. 25 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,220 This could either be useful, I guess, if I wanted to use a USB-A cable off of here. 26 00:01:55,220 --> 00:02:00,020 They probably wouldn't do that. Or if I wanted to convert either of the device's 27 00:02:00,020 --> 00:02:04,320 dual USB-C ports to a USB Type-A. 28 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:09,020 Let's pull these off so we can take a closer look. On the top, you're gonna find a fingerprint sensor 29 00:02:09,020 --> 00:02:12,560 power button, volume rocker, one USB-C port. 30 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,920 This is USB-4, so might be able to use it 31 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:19,660 with some Thunderbolt accessories. Might not, your mileage may vary. 32 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:23,180 We've got a total of, ooh, those are, 33 00:02:23,180 --> 00:02:29,420 they really do feel really nice. Two hall effect triggers, two regular shoulder buttons, 34 00:02:29,420 --> 00:02:34,420 and then two additional L4R4 buttons? 35 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:40,580 I don't know, because this would be your threes and then normally four would be here, but it's not, 36 00:02:40,580 --> 00:02:44,420 it's here. They're pretty hard to reach without accidentally touching the shoulders, 37 00:02:44,420 --> 00:02:49,460 but if you have bigger hands, like I could see using them for something, I guess. 38 00:02:49,460 --> 00:02:53,540 On the bottom, we've got another USB-4 port. I really like to have the option 39 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:58,740 of having it either plugged in the bottom or the top, because if you're sitting, the bottom is great, 40 00:02:58,740 --> 00:03:01,780 instead of having it hanging off the top and kind of dragging it down. 41 00:03:01,780 --> 00:03:06,420 But if you're lying in bed, having it come out the bottom is a great way to damage your cable. 42 00:03:06,420 --> 00:03:11,020 Down here, there's also a micro SD slot and a couple of stereo speakers. 43 00:03:11,020 --> 00:03:14,380 Kind of wish they were forward-facing, but Ayanio's done some pretty good stuff 44 00:03:14,380 --> 00:03:18,140 with the audio on their devices in the past, so they might end up sounding pretty good. 45 00:03:18,140 --> 00:03:22,300 On the face, we've got very serviceable ABX-Y buttons, 46 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:26,520 really nice compact form factor, especially considering how big 47 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,900 some of these devices have gotten lately. Look at you legion go. 48 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:34,020 These joysticks also hall effect with RGB accent lighting, 49 00:03:34,020 --> 00:03:38,940 what feels immediately like a pretty serviceable D-pad, and then of course, your start select, 50 00:03:38,940 --> 00:03:43,400 whatever those are on an Xbox controller and Ayanio space button, and a return to desktop button. 51 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,500 The big star of the show is, of course, the display, 52 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:49,940 and yes, that's right, you guys saw that. 53 00:03:49,940 --> 00:03:54,940 The 30 degrees of tilt that Ayanio is extremely proud of. 54 00:03:56,220 --> 00:03:59,420 Unlike previous similar devices that we've seen before, 55 00:03:59,420 --> 00:04:02,900 like the GPD Win 4, this is A, more powerful, 56 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:08,540 and B, the first that we've seen that has a screen that tilts like this for they claim, 57 00:04:08,540 --> 00:04:11,660 and honestly, I can't see any reason to doubt this, 58 00:04:11,660 --> 00:04:16,860 improved ergonomics. Yeah, it means that I don't have to, 59 00:04:18,020 --> 00:04:22,980 okay, you can't really see this because of the gorgeous dropout hoodie that I'm wearing, LTTstore.com, 60 00:04:22,980 --> 00:04:28,740 but in order to be looking straight at the screen, I'd normally have to bend my wrist back at this angle. 61 00:04:28,740 --> 00:04:33,900 Instead, they do the wrist bending for you, keeping you aligned while you're sitting at a desk 62 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:36,300 and resting your console on the surface of it. 63 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:42,660 Ah, this is a problem. While the display reached a whopping 500 nits, 64 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:46,660 that's 100 more than what they rate it for, and achieved pretty decent performance 65 00:04:46,660 --> 00:04:51,140 when it comes to color accuracy, it's 60 Hertz, which is a big disadvantage 66 00:04:51,140 --> 00:04:55,060 compared to the ROG Ally and the Steam Deck OLED, not to mention the Lenovo Legion Go, 67 00:04:55,060 --> 00:04:59,740 though I don't know how many people are buying that one, but it is not touch screen. 68 00:04:59,740 --> 00:05:03,060 After filming, we found out it's just our pre-production 69 00:05:03,060 --> 00:05:08,620 unit that doesn't have a touch screen. Retail units do, thank goodness. 70 00:05:08,620 --> 00:05:14,660 Let's go ahead and fire up a game, shall we? Holy crap, this fan moves air. 71 00:05:14,660 --> 00:05:18,860 I guess that's one of the advantages of having a thicker body is you can put, 72 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:23,860 like, I can feel this blowing air, this friggin' far away from it. 73 00:05:23,860 --> 00:05:28,140 That looks like a gigantic cooler. Okay, I guess now's a good time for us to talk 74 00:05:28,140 --> 00:05:31,540 about the various performance modes that are available on this device. 75 00:05:31,540 --> 00:05:36,860 Rather than just naming them after wattages, they've got AAA game mode, which runs at 23 watts, 76 00:05:36,860 --> 00:05:42,340 but we turned all the way up to 28 watts so we could see exactly how much it could do in our testing. 77 00:05:42,340 --> 00:05:45,500 They've got normal game mode, retro game mode, 78 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:49,420 and office mode, which are 20 watts, 15 watts, 79 00:05:49,420 --> 00:05:53,700 and then nine watts, respectively. We are obviously in AAA game mode right now 80 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:57,460 because, A, this thing is consuming about 28 watts 81 00:05:57,460 --> 00:06:03,300 between the CPU and the GPU, and B, it is crushing doom eternal, 82 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:06,460 despite being a little tiny handheld device. 83 00:06:07,660 --> 00:06:11,980 Oh, had a little bit of lag there, but what are we set to? Because I think that this is set 84 00:06:11,980 --> 00:06:15,020 to a very unreasonable level of detail right now. 85 00:06:15,020 --> 00:06:18,180 This looks absolutely spectacular. 86 00:06:18,180 --> 00:06:21,940 Yeah, it's set to ultra nightmare quality. That's not fair. 87 00:06:21,940 --> 00:06:25,060 Let's go to medium, especially at 1080p resolution 88 00:06:25,060 --> 00:06:28,420 on these mobile chipsets. Anything above that is a lot to ask, 89 00:06:28,420 --> 00:06:36,300 even for an older AAA game like doom eternal. You can see right now though, I'm getting like 50, 55 FPS. 90 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:40,180 This is very playable. 91 00:06:40,180 --> 00:06:41,620 I will say though, 92 00:06:43,780 --> 00:06:48,140 coming from a device like the Ally, which is what I'm daily driving right now, 93 00:06:48,140 --> 00:06:53,420 the screen is a little small. And it's not just, you know, oh, I'm old 94 00:06:53,420 --> 00:06:59,140 and I can't see very well. Like your hot elements are just kind of tiny, sharp though. 95 00:06:59,140 --> 00:07:04,060 I mean, 1080p at this size, what is this? Like six inches? Okay, six inches. 96 00:07:04,060 --> 00:07:08,260 That's a lot of pixel density. I mean, that's like having a 4K monitor 97 00:07:08,260 --> 00:07:13,180 that was only 12 inches diagonally, literally. I turned the speakers off before to get some idea 98 00:07:13,180 --> 00:07:19,060 of how loud the cooling system is. And I gotta say, given how long we've had doom eternal running, 99 00:07:19,060 --> 00:07:23,900 this is pretty impressive, not to mention that the CPU and GPU are both 100 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:28,900 in the 60 degree range right now. That is extremely reasonable, honestly. 101 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,660 If I was the one designing the fan profile for this, I'd probably let them run a little bit hotter 102 00:07:32,660 --> 00:07:37,580 and just have it be even quieter. But even this is not necessarily a problem. 103 00:07:37,580 --> 00:07:40,900 Let's turn on the volume a little bit. Yeah, they're downward firing 104 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:44,740 and I've seen some pretty incredible magic done with downward firing speakers, 105 00:07:44,740 --> 00:07:47,840 but it does not appear to be present at this time. 106 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:52,780 Okay, let's, let's lose doom eternal. 107 00:07:52,780 --> 00:07:55,300 This is cool though. Ah, shortcut key. 108 00:07:56,700 --> 00:07:57,540 I see. 109 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:03,960 I don't know. I don't know what I've done. 110 00:08:05,780 --> 00:08:10,900 Hello, buddy. Hello? That's another thing A&Eo is proud of with this device 111 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:14,500 is they support gyroscopic aiming. So that's something that you can actually configure 112 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:17,500 in a wide variety of games with third-party tools. 113 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:21,660 I do need to figure out how to fix the resolution of this display real quick though. 114 00:08:21,660 --> 00:08:26,820 Come here, yo. That was weird. Oh, the RGB on the joysticks. 115 00:08:26,820 --> 00:08:31,580 We found the configuration to be a little rough. Eye of space. 116 00:08:31,580 --> 00:08:35,100 I really, really liked it in the first couple of iterations 117 00:08:35,180 --> 00:08:40,300 and it feels like there's a lot of things that have almost regressed at this point. 118 00:08:40,300 --> 00:08:43,740 There we go. RGB lighting effect. RGB brief. 119 00:08:43,740 --> 00:08:48,300 Personally, I'm not a huge fan of having RGB on these anyway just because I find it really distracting when I'm gaming. 120 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:52,700 I always turn it off. Whoa, no way the keyboard is backlit though. 121 00:08:53,940 --> 00:08:58,180 Yup. Okay, that's pretty cool. That I care about because if I'm in the dark 122 00:08:58,180 --> 00:09:02,220 trying to type, so I can find my joysticks, right? Like, but if I'm in the dark trying to type something 123 00:09:02,220 --> 00:09:06,340 that's really useful to have. This is nice. Quick toggles. 124 00:09:06,340 --> 00:09:09,660 Brightness. Ooh, you can change trigger sensitivity. 125 00:09:09,660 --> 00:09:13,500 That's really nice. Wow, effect triggers. Yeah. 126 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:16,700 Adjust the gyro sensitivity. That's super cool as well. 127 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:20,500 It's just a matter of whether this will come up when you're in game or not. 128 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:23,580 That's the trouble that I've had lately. Wow. 129 00:09:23,580 --> 00:09:26,740 You can totally just set up your own profile. 130 00:09:26,740 --> 00:09:31,500 Ah, it's doing the thing. Wear the mouse and the controller 131 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:34,580 both trying to fight for control. This is not good. 132 00:09:34,580 --> 00:09:37,580 Let's see Cyberpunk on this thing in mute fan mode. 133 00:09:37,580 --> 00:09:41,380 It'll have to ramp up. I just want to see how quiet it can manage to stay. 134 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:44,660 Oh dang it, I don't have an FPS counter. 135 00:09:44,660 --> 00:09:49,020 And I can tell you guys it's in the like 35, 40 range. 136 00:09:49,020 --> 00:09:54,220 Oh God, the IF thing is in the way now. Oh God, oh God, it's controlling everything. 137 00:09:54,220 --> 00:09:58,140 Oh God, oh God. All right, hey look, did I nail it or what though? 138 00:09:58,140 --> 00:10:02,260 FPS 38. Why do I even need an FPS counter? 139 00:10:02,260 --> 00:10:05,740 I don't know. We are running in Steam Deck Optimize mode 140 00:10:05,740 --> 00:10:11,860 with FidelityFX Super Resolution, but we're running at 1080p, which the Steam Deck wouldn't be. 141 00:10:11,860 --> 00:10:16,860 And we're still getting, I mean, 1% lows of 29, 33, 35. 142 00:10:18,220 --> 00:10:21,500 This is not a very dense area right now. It was a little bit lower before. 143 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:25,820 Pretty darn impressive. And we found the performance was really solid 144 00:10:25,820 --> 00:10:28,940 across the board. It makes sense given that this is a Z1 Extreme 145 00:10:28,940 --> 00:10:33,740 with good cooling. Did I say good cooling? Because I think I kind of mean great cooling. 146 00:10:33,740 --> 00:10:37,340 Now that I put it in silent mode, yeah, they're up at around 70 degrees 147 00:10:37,340 --> 00:10:42,020 and the controller is a little bit too hot. 148 00:10:42,020 --> 00:10:46,740 I'd say maybe don't operate in that mode unless you're extremely sensitive to noise. 149 00:10:46,740 --> 00:10:49,000 But guys, you can barely hear it. 150 00:10:51,660 --> 00:10:54,820 That's friggin' awesome. Even battery life is decent. 151 00:10:54,820 --> 00:10:59,020 It's got a 46 watt hour battery, so that's squarely in between the original Steam Deck 152 00:10:59,020 --> 00:11:05,060 and the newer Steam Deck OLED, which gave it, okay, under an hour in our stress test, 153 00:11:05,060 --> 00:11:09,780 but that's true of realistically any of these gaming handhelds 154 00:11:09,780 --> 00:11:12,860 and a very respectable over four hours 155 00:11:12,860 --> 00:11:16,500 in our endurance test. So you'd expect depending on the profile you're running in, 156 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:19,580 depending on your screen brightness, you're gonna be getting anywhere 157 00:11:19,580 --> 00:11:25,500 from probably a couple of hours of gaming to in excess of four hours or even five hours 158 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:28,860 if you're just playing some sprite-based, 159 00:11:28,860 --> 00:11:31,620 kind of retro-style game and you keep your screen dim. 160 00:11:33,180 --> 00:11:36,820 Nice, small dead zones on the joysticks though. That's always nice to see. 161 00:11:36,820 --> 00:11:40,620 Yeah, really responsive. Of course, nothing we've talked about so far 162 00:11:40,620 --> 00:11:43,780 really addresses the main selling point of this device 163 00:11:43,780 --> 00:11:47,500 and that's the keyboard. So enough cyberpunk. 164 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:52,640 Let's play some Mavis Beacon. Mavis Beacon, online, let's go. 165 00:11:54,580 --> 00:11:58,900 My battery just died. It did warn me. 166 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:02,340 Famous. It's gonna be $6.99 in the Indiegogo for the base spec. 167 00:12:02,340 --> 00:12:08,860 That is with the Z1 Extreme equivalent though. And then as you go up in RAM and storage and all of that, 168 00:12:08,860 --> 00:12:15,140 the price goes up quite a bit. Now it should be noted, all of our performance testing was at DDR5 at 6400, 169 00:12:15,140 --> 00:12:18,580 but the finished device is expected to go a little bit higher with a new BIOS. 170 00:12:18,580 --> 00:12:24,300 We just didn't have that available to us at the time of testing. So it might perform a little bit better as well. 171 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:27,660 Hello, buddy, can you? Oh, I guess this is the thing, right? 172 00:12:27,660 --> 00:12:31,540 During testing, we encountered a couple of instances where the screen just powered off. 173 00:12:31,540 --> 00:12:36,540 This thing's on, but the screen no worky. 174 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:41,420 Hopefully that's another thing that they could sort out in firmware. Like the lack of a touch screen, 175 00:12:41,420 --> 00:12:46,480 Ioneo has let us know that these issues will be resolved in the full production units. 176 00:12:48,380 --> 00:12:51,380 Oh, I guess I realized I didn't even really comment on this mechanism. 177 00:12:51,380 --> 00:12:54,780 It's great as long as you don't try to use it one-sided. 178 00:12:54,780 --> 00:12:58,460 That's not great. That's fine. That's fine. 179 00:12:59,740 --> 00:13:01,740 That is not very fine. 180 00:13:02,860 --> 00:13:06,940 Yeah, I don't think we're playing Mavis Beacon. I think we're defeated. 181 00:13:06,940 --> 00:13:10,540 Just like you'll be defeated if you don't stay subscribed to ShortCircuit 182 00:13:10,540 --> 00:13:12,540 so you always know what's going on.