way back in 2008 it was my job at NC to
Hawk these things netbooks these were a
big push from Intel and their partners with the idea being that they were tiny
little laptops with really long battery life and enough performance for net
likee tasks like web browsing one small
problem
okay let's do another take only one small
problem they were mostly sh so bringing us into the current year
it is 2017 and there is one company that
believes they can bring the netbook back
to its former glory GPD and this is the
pocket which smashed its Indiegogo
crowdfunding goal raising over $3
million but does the netbook really have a place
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you get in in the box for your $459 if you buy it on Indiegogo or $5.99
$600 if you buy it retail is right here
you get a USB type-c cable you get a wall wart with a type-c plug and you get
the GPD pocket itself in many respects
this is actually quite similar to their last crowdfunded device the GPD win
which was more of like a more of like a kind of handheld keyboardyoutube
expect the world's most amazing performance but it can run cine
bench and I mean lots of other day-to-day stuff I mean here let's fire
up a Chrome browser that didn't feel too bad fire up Netflix I mean it's quad
core processor 8 gigs of RAM it's it's actually fairly
usable and they've made a lot of other improvements since the uh spiritual
predecessor as well notably in terms of
build quality and display so that's what
a netbook felt like these were like plastic cheap toys and this one does
cost a fair bit more but and this doesn't seem to have been unintentional
here you get like this unibody aluminum style construction with the uh with the
screws closing it in on the bottom there and you get this really rigid feeling
screen the thing feels really nice in the hand and for the display instead of
a low resolution TN man of these come a long way you get a 1080p IPS s 7in
display so that's a pixel density it looks really good I turned it down to
150% scaling cuz I found that was kind of my sweet spot but it is very very
usable even at this size compared to how much stuff you could put on before 7,000
milliamp hour battery meant that our PC Mark battery life test came in at over 5
hours which is a really impressive result for running basically Full Tilt
all the time meaning that this thing and
last but not least with all those improvements plus the fact that they've
made it truly pocket
sized is a really different kind of
device but there's always a but isn't
there there are some things that time
couldn't change and that's the size of human hands the interface could be
better so some people will be thrilled to see the nipple return from the IBM P
pads of your but this split left and right click and having them so close
with this Ridge here makes for not the most um ergonomic experience unless you
are really good at you know this kind of this kind of work if you uh if you catch
my drift there also the
keyboard I I don't know how anyone
managed to make a keyboard worse than a netbook their previous device actually
felt better because it was intended to be used with just thumbs whereas this
sits in that awkward Middle Ground where it's hard to use with thumbs but almost
impossible to get your hands on they've made some very weird changes I didn't
realize just how off it was until I tried to play a game and I put my
fingers on WD and figured out that W was
way the crap over there like I have some suggestions get rid of caps lock why do
we need a caps lock button uh move backspace up so that I don't keep
hitting delete instead of backspace that's very unnatural um colon really
needs to be here but then where do you put enter I mean in some ways I do have
ideas but in other ways I just don't know how you can fix this and typing
without a lot of specific training on this device is going to be a real
challenge okay so next I want to take a look at gaming performance but while we
wait for uh Windows Live or whatever to
install we decided to open it up and have a look at the inside this thing is
like 60% battery so here's our here's our Wi-Fi so
there's our two antennas there's our 2 W
CPU here's our 8 gigs of RAM always love
opening this stuff up oh and actually I guess now's a good time to check out IO
so we've got a fullsize USB 3 super
speed we've got a headphone jack I mean
you can't take that for granted these days my
friends we've got a micro HDMI I'm not a
huge fan of this connector but it's better than Mini at least in terms of
fragility and more importantly this is really cool we've got a USB type-c so
that is used for charging but it can
also be used for a dongle so something
like this where you can adapt that single port to multiple USBS HDMI
gigabit networking I've actually done it and I've also tested this you can plug
your dongle if you've got one of those ones that's made for the MacBook into
the wall and the whole thing will charge it'll power the dongle your devices and
the laptop if you have a powerful enough wall wart which is pretty freaking sick
so let's go ahead and fire up uh Batman Arkham Asylum shall
we come on you rat bastard okay so
obviously the point of this isn't that
torch light is the most difficult game in the world to run but rather that for
basic games you actually can can run them directly on the device itself you
can see at medium to high settings we're actually getting about you know 15 to 25
FPS which is playable but not really something
that I would recommend what I'm more into for a device like this is thanks to
its use of a decent AC Wi-Fi chipset
this is what I'm more interested in so I'm using steam in home streaming on a
gaming computer elsewhere in the office and getting an utterly seamless 1080p
game streaming experience on this little
portable device hit the buddy no I missed the
Buddy and actually the audio experience on the built-in speaker speakers they
seem to be a little confused themselves about they call it a stereo speaker but
last I checked you need two physical speakers for stereo audio so I'm yeah it
sounds like it's coming out of one part of the keyboard the point is it's
actually reasonably loud and up to about 60 65% volume it's pretty Distortion
free it's a very good experience which I guess leads us to content
consumption and we're going from strength to strength here 1080p Netflix
is looking really really sharp on this
little tiny display and plays back with
no dropped frames whatsoever and it's actually it's nice that the hinge folds
back this far it's a little bit inconvenient that it's kind of hard to access the touch controls at the very
bottom like the Windows taskbar but in terms of like kind of sitting and
watching a movie on it honestly it's a it's a pretty darn good experience and
1080p YouTube same thing so you're looking at about 50% CPU usage if you're
watching like a a reasonably fast-paced video at full HD
but for me a lot of those use cases are not that dissimilar from what you could
do with uh you know a Windows-based tablet so it becomes sort of a question
of form factor and IO this keyboard is
going to require a lot of adjustment but
the pocketability kind of gave me a a
different idea for for how I see this as something where out of desperation you
might actually use it like this when you're sitting on a plane or on a or on
a trainer something like that but normally it's more about like taking the
vast majority of the local storage you actually need like 128 gigs 8 gigs round
like it's a decent little machine and being able to really carry it around
with you and plug it in with a single cable solution to a desktop type display
now it's running older Intel HD graphics so it's like DisplayPort 1.1 so at
Native resolution on this Ultra wide we're running at uh 30 HZ or something
like that and then using an HDMI adapter
here I think we were only even able to get up to
1080p but it is still the ability to
just take it plug it in and be using your computer wherever you go that is
very appealing to me and enabled by USB
type-c so I guess the real question then
is is would you spend $459 on Indiegogo or $5.99 retail on it
I guess it depends on the kind of consumer are if you were waiting for a
modern Netbook I think they've done a fantastic job but if you think the
netbook should have been buried put in the trash can you do it
again oh there's no garbage can there this time well then you won't be that
excited about
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