WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.800 Even if the IA NEO slide was the worst product ever, 00:00:03.800 --> 00:00:08.760 which it's not, I probably still love it because this is the cutest packaging 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 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. 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:25.280 We're expecting performance to be about on par 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:29.880 with devices like the Lenovo Legion Go and the Seuss ROG Ally, 00:00:29.880 --> 00:00:33.280 since it's using a Ryzen 7 7840U, 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. 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, 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:49.840 but includes a full freaking physical keyboard. 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. 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:58.080 Windows is just not designed to be used 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:03.760 with joysticks and buttons. And boom, having access to a keyboard like that, 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:08.880 combined with IA NEO's ISPAY software, which has pretty good joy to mouse 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 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:17.880 enter a product key or log into your Microsoft account 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:21.400 or just all that crap that you have to do with Windows. 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:26.400 Let's have a look at accessories real quick. All black, just matte black, absolutely everything. 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:30.640 Nice compact power brick. This bad boy will do up to 65 watts. 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.120 Love to see it. Also love that it uses a detachable cable 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.440 so that I'm not stuck with whatever length they happen to ship me. 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:40.440 Oh, various region adapters for the wall ward. 00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:44.720 It looks like it comes with the North American one, pre-installed at least for me. 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:49.840 This is cool though. I also get a couple of USB-C to USB-A dongles. 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. 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 00:02:00.020 --> 00:02:04.320 dual USB-C ports to a USB Type-A. 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 00:02:09.020 --> 00:02:12.560 power button, volume rocker, one USB-C port. 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.920 This is USB-4, so might be able to use it 00:02:15.920 --> 00:02:19.660 with some Thunderbolt accessories. Might not, your mileage may vary. 00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:23.180 We've got a total of, ooh, those are, 00:02:23.180 --> 00:02:29.420 they really do feel really nice. Two hall effect triggers, two regular shoulder buttons, 00:02:29.420 --> 00:02:34.420 and then two additional L4R4 buttons? 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, 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:44.420 it's here. They're pretty hard to reach without accidentally touching the shoulders, 00:02:44.420 --> 00:02:49.460 but if you have bigger hands, like I could see using them for something, I guess. 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 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, 00:02:58.740 --> 00:03:01.780 instead of having it hanging off the top and kind of dragging it down. 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. 00:03:06.420 --> 00:03:11.020 Down here, there's also a micro SD slot and a couple of stereo speakers. 00:03:11.020 --> 00:03:14.380 Kind of wish they were forward-facing, but Ayanio's done some pretty good stuff 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. 00:03:18.140 --> 00:03:22.300 On the face, we've got very serviceable ABX-Y buttons, 00:03:22.300 --> 00:03:26.520 really nice compact form factor, especially considering how big 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:29.900 some of these devices have gotten lately. Look at you legion go. 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:34.020 These joysticks also hall effect with RGB accent lighting, 00:03:34.020 --> 00:03:38.940 what feels immediately like a pretty serviceable D-pad, and then of course, your start select, 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. 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.500 The big star of the show is, of course, the display, 00:03:46.500 --> 00:03:49.940 and yes, that's right, you guys saw that. 00:03:49.940 --> 00:03:54.940 The 30 degrees of tilt that Ayanio is extremely proud of. 00:03:56.220 --> 00:03:59.420 Unlike previous similar devices that we've seen before, 00:03:59.420 --> 00:04:02.900 like the GPD Win 4, this is A, more powerful, 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, 00:04:08.540 --> 00:04:11.660 and honestly, I can't see any reason to doubt this, 00:04:11.660 --> 00:04:16.860 improved ergonomics. Yeah, it means that I don't have to, 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, 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. 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 00:04:33.900 --> 00:04:36.300 and resting your console on the surface of it. 00:04:37.300 --> 00:04:42.660 Ah, this is a problem. While the display reached a whopping 500 nits, 00:04:42.700 --> 00:04:46.660 that's 100 more than what they rate it for, and achieved pretty decent performance 00:04:46.660 --> 00:04:51.140 when it comes to color accuracy, it's 60 Hertz, which is a big disadvantage 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, 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. 00:04:59.740 --> 00:05:03.060 After filming, we found out it's just our pre-production 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:08.620 unit that doesn't have a touch screen. Retail units do, thank goodness. 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. 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, 00:05:20.500 --> 00:05:23.860 like, I can feel this blowing air, this friggin' far away from it. 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 00:05:28.140 --> 00:05:31.540 about the various performance modes that are available on this device. 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, 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. 00:05:42.340 --> 00:05:45.500 They've got normal game mode, retro game mode, 00:05:45.500 --> 00:05:49.420 and office mode, which are 20 watts, 15 watts, 00:05:49.420 --> 00:05:53.700 and then nine watts, respectively. We are obviously in AAA game mode right now 00:05:53.700 --> 00:05:57.460 because, A, this thing is consuming about 28 watts 00:05:57.460 --> 00:06:03.300 between the CPU and the GPU, and B, it is crushing doom eternal, 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:06.460 despite being a little tiny handheld device. 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 00:06:11.980 --> 00:06:15.020 to a very unreasonable level of detail right now. 00:06:15.020 --> 00:06:18.180 This looks absolutely spectacular. 00:06:18.180 --> 00:06:21.940 Yeah, it's set to ultra nightmare quality. That's not fair. 00:06:21.940 --> 00:06:25.060 Let's go to medium, especially at 1080p resolution 00:06:25.060 --> 00:06:28.420 on these mobile chipsets. Anything above that is a lot to ask, 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. 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:40.180 This is very playable. 00:06:40.180 --> 00:06:41.620 I will say though, 00:06:43.780 --> 00:06:48.140 coming from a device like the Ally, which is what I'm daily driving right now, 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 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. 00:06:59.140 --> 00:07:04.060 I mean, 1080p at this size, what is this? Like six inches? Okay, six inches. 00:07:04.060 --> 00:07:08.260 That's a lot of pixel density. I mean, that's like having a 4K monitor 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 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, 00:07:19.060 --> 00:07:23.900 this is pretty impressive, not to mention that the CPU and GPU are both 00:07:23.900 --> 00:07:28.900 in the 60 degree range right now. That is extremely reasonable, honestly. 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 00:07:32.660 --> 00:07:37.580 and just have it be even quieter. But even this is not necessarily a problem. 00:07:37.580 --> 00:07:40.900 Let's turn on the volume a little bit. Yeah, they're downward firing 00:07:40.900 --> 00:07:44.740 and I've seen some pretty incredible magic done with downward firing speakers, 00:07:44.740 --> 00:07:47.840 but it does not appear to be present at this time. 00:07:49.300 --> 00:07:52.780 Okay, let's, let's lose doom eternal. 00:07:52.780 --> 00:07:55.300 This is cool though. Ah, shortcut key. 00:07:56.700 --> 00:07:57.540 I see. 00:08:00.100 --> 00:08:03.960 I don't know. I don't know what I've done. 00:08:05.780 --> 00:08:10.900 Hello, buddy. Hello? That's another thing A&Eo is proud of with this device 00:08:10.900 --> 00:08:14.500 is they support gyroscopic aiming. So that's something that you can actually configure 00:08:14.500 --> 00:08:17.500 in a wide variety of games with third-party tools. 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. 00:08:21.660 --> 00:08:26.820 Come here, yo. That was weird. Oh, the RGB on the joysticks. 00:08:26.820 --> 00:08:31.580 We found the configuration to be a little rough. Eye of space. 00:08:31.580 --> 00:08:35.100 I really, really liked it in the first couple of iterations 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. 00:08:40.300 --> 00:08:43.740 There we go. RGB lighting effect. RGB brief. 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. 00:08:48.300 --> 00:08:52.700 I always turn it off. Whoa, no way the keyboard is backlit though. 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 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 00:09:02.220 --> 00:09:06.340 that's really useful to have. This is nice. Quick toggles. 00:09:06.340 --> 00:09:09.660 Brightness. Ooh, you can change trigger sensitivity. 00:09:09.660 --> 00:09:13.500 That's really nice. Wow, effect triggers. Yeah. 00:09:13.500 --> 00:09:16.700 Adjust the gyro sensitivity. That's super cool as well. 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. 00:09:20.500 --> 00:09:23.580 That's the trouble that I've had lately. Wow. 00:09:23.580 --> 00:09:26.740 You can totally just set up your own profile. 00:09:26.740 --> 00:09:31.500 Ah, it's doing the thing. Wear the mouse and the controller 00:09:31.500 --> 00:09:34.580 both trying to fight for control. This is not good. 00:09:34.580 --> 00:09:37.580 Let's see Cyberpunk on this thing in mute fan mode. 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. 00:09:41.380 --> 00:09:44.660 Oh dang it, I don't have an FPS counter. 00:09:44.660 --> 00:09:49.020 And I can tell you guys it's in the like 35, 40 range. 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. 00:09:54.220 --> 00:09:58.140 Oh God, oh God. All right, hey look, did I nail it or what though? 00:09:58.140 --> 00:10:02.260 FPS 38. Why do I even need an FPS counter? 00:10:02.260 --> 00:10:05.740 I don't know. We are running in Steam Deck Optimize mode 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. 00:10:11.860 --> 00:10:16.860 And we're still getting, I mean, 1% lows of 29, 33, 35. 00:10:18.220 --> 00:10:21.500 This is not a very dense area right now. It was a little bit lower before. 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:25.820 Pretty darn impressive. And we found the performance was really solid 00:10:25.820 --> 00:10:28.940 across the board. It makes sense given that this is a Z1 Extreme 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. 00:10:33.740 --> 00:10:37.340 Now that I put it in silent mode, yeah, they're up at around 70 degrees 00:10:37.340 --> 00:10:42.020 and the controller is a little bit too hot. 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. 00:10:46.740 --> 00:10:49.000 But guys, you can barely hear it. 00:10:51.660 --> 00:10:54.820 That's friggin' awesome. Even battery life is decent. 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 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, 00:11:05.060 --> 00:11:09.780 but that's true of realistically any of these gaming handhelds 00:11:09.780 --> 00:11:12.860 and a very respectable over four hours 00:11:12.860 --> 00:11:16.500 in our endurance test. So you'd expect depending on the profile you're running in, 00:11:16.500 --> 00:11:19.580 depending on your screen brightness, you're gonna be getting anywhere 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 00:11:25.500 --> 00:11:28.860 if you're just playing some sprite-based, 00:11:28.860 --> 00:11:31.620 kind of retro-style game and you keep your screen dim. 00:11:33.180 --> 00:11:36.820 Nice, small dead zones on the joysticks though. That's always nice to see. 00:11:36.820 --> 00:11:40.620 Yeah, really responsive. Of course, nothing we've talked about so far 00:11:40.620 --> 00:11:43.780 really addresses the main selling point of this device 00:11:43.780 --> 00:11:47.500 and that's the keyboard. So enough cyberpunk. 00:11:47.500 --> 00:11:52.640 Let's play some Mavis Beacon. Mavis Beacon, online, let's go. 00:11:54.580 --> 00:11:58.900 My battery just died. It did warn me. 00:11:58.900 --> 00:12:02.340 Famous. It's gonna be $6.99 in the Indiegogo for the base spec. 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, 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, 00:12:15.140 --> 00:12:18.580 but the finished device is expected to go a little bit higher with a new BIOS. 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. 00:12:24.300 --> 00:12:27.660 Hello, buddy, can you? Oh, I guess this is the thing, right? 00:12:27.660 --> 00:12:31.540 During testing, we encountered a couple of instances where the screen just powered off. 00:12:31.540 --> 00:12:36.540 This thing's on, but the screen no worky. 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, 00:12:41.420 --> 00:12:46.480 Ioneo has let us know that these issues will be resolved in the full production units. 00:12:48.380 --> 00:12:51.380 Oh, I guess I realized I didn't even really comment on this mechanism. 00:12:51.380 --> 00:12:54.780 It's great as long as you don't try to use it one-sided. 00:12:54.780 --> 00:12:58.460 That's not great. That's fine. That's fine. 00:12:59.740 --> 00:13:01.740 That is not very fine. 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:06.940 Yeah, I don't think we're playing Mavis Beacon. I think we're defeated. 00:13:06.940 --> 00:13:10.540 Just like you'll be defeated if you don't stay subscribed to ShortCircuit 00:13:10.540 --> 00:13:12.540 so you always know what's going on.