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it has no flashy plastic design no RGB lighting no overclocking and

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the performance isn't even very good but make no mistake the gpd win max arguably

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packs more pc gaming punch per liter than anything that's ever come before it

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and i was lucky enough to be sent a pre-production unit so

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let's have a look at it together instantly see your current and past

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the first thing my wife said is that it reminds her of the aspire one given the

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thickness of the gpd max and the cramped keyboard that's not entirely an unfair

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comparison but a lot was learned from the early netbooks and performance has

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come a long way since Intel atom gpd ended up taking a shockingly zero

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compromises approach to the win max and the highlights of its specifications

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include 16 gigs of lp ddr4x memory 512

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gigs of NVMe storage an 8-inch 500 nit

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display lightning fast wi-fi 6 and enough i o to embarrass some laptops

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that are twice its size but the star of the show is the 10 nanometer Intel

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quad-core processor that manages to turbo all the way up to three to three

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point three gigahertz under light real world all core loads guys that is just

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about the same base frequency as a 4770

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desktop chip and it comes loaded with iris plus graphics 940. yeah we're gonna

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have to get to that eventually it uses onboard graphics but as we've seen so

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many times before a complete product can be more than the sum of its parts

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yes my friends that is gta 5 running on

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the win max but hold on it's worth talking about some of the setup first

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one of the first things i did was pop into the BIOS and toggle the CPU's TDP

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to the maximum 25 watts it's pretty typical these days for Intel to have

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configurable thermal envelopes for their mobile chips but usually the device

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manufacturer will pick one for you and design a thermal solution that allows

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the chip to go as fast as it can within that limit

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not here now it's a little kludgy and requires a reboot every time but leaving

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this to the user allows those folks who are mostly interested in retro game

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emulation to extend their battery life considerably by tuning power consumption

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down or by disabling cores while offering maximum performance to those

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who are looking to play older aaa pc games or emulated games from much newer

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consoles when it comes to real world performance other than a couple of

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misleading bits in the marketing i'm thrilled in truly heavy workloads the

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1035 g7 falls well behind a 4790k let's

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be honest but playstation 1 emulation was flawless playstation 2 was super

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fluid in fact almost anything that's normally CPU bound even dolphin which is

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notoriously CPU heavy due to the gamecube and wii's ibm processor ran

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more like i would expect it to run on something that would fit in my lap not

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something that would fit in my hand even gpd's representation of the pc gaming

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experience is pretty upfront modern demanding aaa games will run as

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long as you don't mind cranking down the graphical settings and living with a

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30-ish FPS experience as for older aaa

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games these run oh it crashed yeah it's an early

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unit and the firmware and the hardware are both not final so i did run into

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some issues here but until it crashed it was running great i

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mean it's crazy because i remember when you needed a top-tier gaming pc to run

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batman arkham asylum this thing though you can basically max it out running at

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60fps with only very occasional stutters

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and that's at native resolution and therein lies some of the magic built

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into the winmax is an hips panel that's rated for 500 nits max brightness and

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runs at 1280 by 800 resolution that is

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pretty low for a modern display and if you have sharp eyesight the experience

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is not as good as they seem to make it out to be in the indiegogo pitch gpd

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points out how the pixel pitch so it's the pixel density of their display

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compares to common laptop and desktop display sizes and pixel counts the

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problem is that the way that you would typically hold the gpd max puts it much

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closer to your face than those other displays so you need more pixel density

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in order for it to reach retina levels where you can't make out the individual

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pixels i do understand the design limitations at play here though it's not

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like the iris pro graphics we're gonna be able to drive anything higher than an

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hd panel anyway and playing at a lower

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but still native resolution is definitely better the alternative

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truthfully i'd have done it exactly the same way i just felt that it was a

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little disingenuous to make the comparisons that they did

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some more good news though is that i absolutely love the built-in controller

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as we've seen on previous gpd products there's a rocker on the side that

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toggles the controller between mouse mode with the shoulder buttons acting as

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left and right click and gamepad mode which uses standard x input meaning that

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it usually requires no configuration to just work

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this is far and away their best effort so far the abx y buttons are

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delightfully clicky but not loud the d-pad is the best i've seen on anything

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that isn't a dedicated game controller and the analog sticks they might take up

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a ton of space internally that might have been great to use for battery but

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they were totally worth it the tension on them is just right the plastic

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ribbing on the top is the perfect balance of control and durability and i

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got no annoying dead zones putting me in perfect control all the time i had to

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complain about the gamepad i would say the shoulder buttons are a little light

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for my taste the intake fan on the bottom actually makes my fingers cold

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when i'm playing if i'm not wearing a warm hoodie from ltteststore.com that is

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the win max itself is heavy enough that you pretty much have to rest it on

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something if you're playing for more than about 15 minutes back to the marketing though my final beef is this

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while it is true that playstation 3 emulation is possible with the win max

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you're going to be limited to the much lighter games from that console and the

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xbox 360 for that matter if you want frame rates of 30 FPS or more now i did

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technically run some heavier games this

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is bioshock 2 for example but as you can see the experience was

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not great one way around this would be to use the

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Thunderbolt 3 port on the back to hook up an external GPU that is super cool

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like Thunderbolt 3 in this thing dang like i have long been a Thunderbolt 3

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graphics card enthusiast but all the compact Thunderbolt 3 graphics cards

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that i'm aware of either never made it to market or have gone extinct meaning

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that if you want to do that you're stuck tethered to a big old brick that's

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plugged into the wall at that point i mean why wouldn't i just

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use a normal controller and play on the larger display of my real laptop or tv

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or something but Linus you might say maybe the winmax is your only computer

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you use it as a handheld on the go and you dock it at home you simply must have

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a solution to this problem

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given the luxury pricing of both the win max and an egpu i find that scenario

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pretty hard to swallow but at least hey the option is there if

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you're into it and performance is shockingly good the windmax's open

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airflow bottom might give it a bit more flex than i'd like and

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it can get pretty loud but it allows the dual fan cooler to

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breathe extremely well and kept the CPU in the high 60s to low 70s throughout my

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testing all of which was done again at max TDP i bet a macbook air would need

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water cooling for that we should test that

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get subscribed to see it just make sure too though that a webcam yeah it took me

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a while to realize it's missing one and a separate keyboard is part of your

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docking solution if you want to go that route i really wanted to like the

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keyboard and the touchpad they included dedicated f keys which i appreciated and

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it's pretty neat how in controller mode you can kind of thumb the trackpad

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around but the arrow keys are terrible this caps lock should absolutely be

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tabbed and it's just too cramped to really game comfortably on not to

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mention that i can type faster on my phone than i can type on this thing

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that's really the final nail in the i'm gonna make this my only computer pipe

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dream for me i see the win max as a second or maybe

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even a third pc but that does not mean that i don't like it

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this is a really cool device once they

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sort out those stability issues that prevented me from even testing battery

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life i'd expect 10 hours or maybe more

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in our light office benchmark which is pretty darn good considering the 57 watt

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hour battery that's 10 nanometer for you like anything though it's full of

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sacrifices and it lacks the kind of polish that you might expect from the

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likes of dell if that weird alienware nintendo switch thing ever comes to

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market but bottom line if you're the kind of person

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who was already salivating over the prospect of a handheld emulation monster

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and you were just waiting for me to say yep it pretty much does what they said

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it would do then go now just buy it this is without a doubt one

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of the coolest pcs on the market and it may be a long time before something this

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unique comes along again you know else might not come along again anytime soon

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