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them later in the video i love handheld gaming but there are so many options to

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choose from all with their own pros and cons switch OLED love the display

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hate the pricey walled garden of games steam deck

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outstanding performance and the price

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but you better have an ltd backpack to carry it around in ltteststore.com but

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what's this the same AMD ryzen 5000 chip

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from the ineo next with a 1080p OLED screen

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and it's small enough to fit in my

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admittedly large pockets

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i was absolutely ecstatic when i first

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saw the io neo air it reads like a portable gaming enthusiast's wish list

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hall effect joysticks dual usb type c

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ports up to two terabytes of internal storage with microsd expansion and they

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claim it doesn't even get that loud the whole package sounds too good to be true

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io neo has been crushing pretty much everything but their naming scheme over

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the last year with products like the next the pro and the next pro

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but when valve swaggered into the handheld gaming pc scene and slapped

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their giant deck on the table

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everything else suddenly looked downright overpriced by comparison but

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this little guy right here only

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630 us dollars and inside you'll find 16

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gigs of ddr4 RAM at 4266 mega transfers per second a 512 gig NVMe SSD and a

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ryzen 5 5560u processor with vega 6

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graphics it even gets down to 4.99 if

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you opt for the 128 gig drive and less memory but what's really surprising is

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the price of the full fat pro version

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two terabytes of storage 32 gigs of RAM

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and a ryzen 7 58 25 u go ahead i'll give

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you a second to guess the price ready

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only fourteen hundred dollars okay yes that's a lot of money but

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it's a hundred dollars cheaper than its bulkier sibling the iano next while

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being significantly better in a number of key ways

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there are so many upgrades it's hard to know where to start but the most

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visually obvious one is the screen

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they've gone amoled and unlike the steam deck which manages roughly 60 coverage

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of the srgb color space the ineo air can do 99

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of dci p3 which is more than 100 of srgb

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it's also shockingly color accurate with an average delta e of just six to be

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clear that's not on par with a calibrated professional display but for

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consumer hardware it's very impressive for context we previously measured the

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steam deck at around an average delta e of 15

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and the best part every pixel is self-illuminating which means perfect

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blacks and it hits a whopping max brightness of 360 nits that's similar to

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the switch OLED now i still prefer the steam deck late at night thanks to the

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outstanding work that valve has done on its dimming capabilities but under

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regular lighting conditions it looks downright basic in comparison

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which raises a question for me why aren't

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there more oleds in the handheld space well according to ionio they'd love to

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but the problem is that nobody's making them in the right size and resolution

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and getting a new screen mold can cost millions of dollars luckily for them and

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for us they were able to source this existing five and a half inch 1080p

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design and it looks great the only downside to it seems to be the huge

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bezels around the edge and i would love to see the next version expand the

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screen to utilize that empty space in terms of physical form factor there are

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two versions the air and the air pro both look identical from the front and

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feel very light in my small boy hands but if we turn them this way you can see

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that the non pro is thinner just 18 millimeters at its thinnest point and

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it's also about 50 grams lighter both of them make the steam deck and the

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previous ioneo next look comically large

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and in my opinion the io air marks the

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point where this category goes from small pcs that you can hold to a

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handheld console that runs Windows or Linux as it were

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and impressively they've done this without giving up any i o

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both of the usbc ports can be used for charging and connecting peripherals

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including through a dock and we also get a headset jack a fingerprint sensor on

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the power button and this convenient micro sd card slot for extra storage

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now you can upgrade the included internal m.2 SSD and unlike the steam

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deck it uses a more standard 2280 form factor but it's a bit of a pain to get

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to compared to ineos previous consoles you've probably already noticed by the

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way the RGB around the thumbsticks which can indicate whether it's charging or

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low on battery i think that's super cool and the quality of the shell plastics

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feels really good overall it's got a nice fingerprint resistant texture it's

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quite sturdy and while there are some minor tooling mismatches like on the

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bottom three and a half millimeter jack i only noticed this because we've gone

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through the process of creating our own molds for our screwdriver recently which

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by the way will probably be available for order on lttstore.com by the time we

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release this video i am so excited for you to get your hands on one one bit of

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feedback on the shell is that while the triggers feel nice and they also use

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high durability hall effect sensors just like the joysticks even with my small

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hands i had trouble reaching them comfortably in certain games for example

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in roller drum you often need to alternate between moving the camera and

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pressing face buttons while shooting this results in a sort of

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pincer-like grip that can get a little tiring over time

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the top bumpers and these two programmable inner buttons on the edge

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can also be a little awkward to reach and only exacerbate that pincer problem

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thankfully though you shouldn't need to press those ones very frequently with

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all that said you're going to hear very similar feedback about pretty much any

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other handheld console they're small which means ergonomic compromises and

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for most retro titles that don't utilize thumb sticks or triggers especially at

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the same time it feels great side scrollers like hollow knight or dead

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cells run amazing at 1080p and rpgs like

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octopath traveler look stunning on the OLED display

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since it's a Windows device getting emulators up and running is pretty easy

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but i would recommend hooking up a keyboard and a mouse through the usbc

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hub at least while you get everything configured it's a real time saver and

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you will probably spend some time configuring emulators because i think

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you'll stick to double a or indie games the reality is while the ryzen 5560u and

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5825u are both solid cpus their vega

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graphics is holding them back in a big way compared to the steam deck and to

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the gpd win max 2 both of which are powered by rd and a2

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gpus to be clear depending on your

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expectations you may be perfectly happy running even modern aaa games but if

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you're expecting anything better than 30 FPS 720p low settings you're setting

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yourself up for disappointment even the maximum 18 watt pro mode wasn't enough

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to put our air pro which has the top spec chip in the same performance class

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as the steam deck i mean it's still respectable we managed to punch above 30

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FPS in some aaa games at 720p low and

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while we didn't benchmark every indie game they were all clearly running it

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well over 60 FPS full 1080p hollow knight dead cells and roller drum didn't

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so much as hiccup during prolonged gameplay even when turned down to 8 or

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12 watts but there's actually some more bad news

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if you're all about performance per dollar the steam deck is still going to look

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more compelling it comes out ahead at basically every power setting which

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affects more than just FPS charts

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consider battery life we set both of these devices down to 5 watts and left

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control running at 720p at the start of the game

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not only did our io air pro shut down first but it could barely even display

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the game at this wattage hovering around the 10 FPS mark our steam deck with the

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same settings lasted about 30 minutes longer and the game was also in a much

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more playable state that means that if you're willing to accept the errors

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performance level you'd actually get more time away from the wall with

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valve's handheld however if you want a 1080p OLED indie crushing machine that

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is lighter and way more compact it's kind of a no-brainer and i'm going

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to pick the ineo air or the air pro every single time i don't need a 400 ppi

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display with incredible contrast and decent color accuracy but i want it and

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it really does put the steam dex display to shame maybe valve can cook up their

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own OLED version of the deck but hopefully by that time we'll see an io

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neo model with AMD 6000 series processors like we saw in the gpd win

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max 2. i would absolutely love that in

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this form factor but and this is especially true if

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you're buying this generation be warned there are some quirks

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sometimes our cursor didn't display on the desktop or the taskbar when using a

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mouse and changing the resolution with aya space led to some pretty awful

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results that might take a little bit of wrestling to get it back into a usable

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state some games and emulators did have minor issues that could have been caused

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by the portrait rotated to landscape display though it should be noted that

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most handhelds will run into the same issues and i think it's fair to say that

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ispace will really need to improve over the next year or so to be clear they're

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making great progress but i ran into several ux issues while simply trying to

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launch games or change settings particularly when using the physical

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buttons to navigate rather than the touch screen also remember i mentioned that changing

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the SSD on this bad boy isn't as much of a cakewalk as the next

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well it's beautiful and there are almost no

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visible screws but as you can see from our tear down footage that means there's

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a much higher chance of cosmetic damage when you open it up and you'll need to

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do a bit more than just open the shell to make the upgrade want to upgrade your

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for behind the scenes and exclusive content this thing is truly impressive

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but it also raises a couple of questions like how is it so cheap and what could

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possibly be next the answer to the first one as it turns out is that there's just

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not a lot of profit margin this time around no really with this evolution of the

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product line it was apparently more a matter of solving the existing ioneo

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problems of being too heavy and too thick rather than trying to turn this

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into a hugely profitable product as for what's next our dna ii graphics is on

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the horizon and with it the ineo2 which should hopefully incorporate some of the

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design we've seen here today which is a kind of inconvenient fact that makes it

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hard for me to truly fall in love with the ai neo air because the thing is

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after trying out the 6800u and the windmax 2 i just can't stop thinking

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about that chip in this machine with

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this delicious OLED display we're going to have all the handhelds that we talked

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about today linked in the video description by the way so you can get one for yourself if you want but if it

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was my money i'd be waiting for next gen are you guys stoked about the handheld

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pc gaming boom that's going on right now leave a comment below and if you liked

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this video make sure to check out our video on the win max 2. it is definitely

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the way to go if you gain somewhat but

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you also want the versatility to use your gaming machine as a full-fledged

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laptop computer