1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 Ionio has been making some very cool but very expensive handhelds over the last few years. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:11,840 And now we've got the Quinn, which their touting is a high-end top-tier mobile gaming device. 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:18,560 And holy crap, I am not talking price yet, but it comes in a wooden box. Look at how beautiful 4 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:23,360 this is. Look, you get this like text. This is Ionio Quinn. It's got an OB strip that we're 5 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:29,680 going to try to get off here. Oh man, this is beautiful. This is probably one of the nicest 6 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:35,280 unboxing experiences I've ever had. This just slides out and you can, I mean no one's going to do 7 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:40,800 this. But you know, you could put it in your home somewhere. And then, oh, this is actually just like 8 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,960 a little background of mountains. Okay, you know what? Don't put the acrylic up somewhere, but this 9 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:51,120 is like a nice little scenic mountain range kind of deal. Oh my god, there's more. Okay, I haven't 10 00:00:51,120 --> 00:01:00,160 even looked at the console yet because instead we've got this what? What? Wondering, boundless and 11 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:12,480 free. Oh wow, this is long. Oh, and then on the back is a bunch of like instructions or something. 12 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:18,000 Say what you will about the rest of the console. This packaging is incredible. We've just got a 13 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:23,760 little diagram here for like where our home button is. Okay, well that's that. I thought this was 14 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,840 like a second booklet, but it's really just a piece of foam for our console. But then there's 15 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:33,280 another little paper sheet here. What's in this? We got our Aya space 2.0 instruction manual. That's 16 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:38,400 just the software that they used in the handheld custom software. And then we've got three other 17 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:43,360 little boxes here. This is probably the charging brick if I had to guess. Real gamers, no gamers. 18 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:50,960 Aya is a real gamer. GAN 100 watt fast charger. Okay, that's actually pretty sick. That's a bit 19 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:56,480 more than your standard 65 watt GAN charger that other handolds are coming with. And we have two 20 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:02,320 other boxes. What's in this? Cables, wall adapters. Okay, so you're set wherever you go. Thanks, Aya. 21 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,560 This has got to be the cable. If this thing comes with a charger but no cable, I would be incredibly 22 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:15,440 disappointed. And yes, it is in fact a C to C cable. That's a decently long charge cable too. 23 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,880 It's nothing too much like you're gonna have a little trouble if you want to sit on one end of 24 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:24,240 the couch instead of the other. But whatever, that's fine. It also comes with two handy dandy USB-C 25 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:32,160 to A cable adapters. And now for the console, this thing is huge. It's got an 8.4 inch screen. 26 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:40,720 It's 2560 by 1600. So you're getting a 16 by 10 aspect ratio. And it is heavy. How much do you weigh? 27 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:49,200 945 grams. They advertise 950 on their manufacturer's website. Give or take a few. That's fine. For 28 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:57,280 reference, the Steam Deck is what, 650 roughly? The ally is like 608. So this is hefty. And I don't 29 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:02,640 know. It honestly feels pretty comfortable in my hands as is, but I don't know if I would feel 30 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:07,920 comfortable holding it like on the bus for an extended gaming session. It's got an 8 point D 31 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:14,560 pad, which I don't think feels amazing, but I don't honestly hate it either. A couple of thumb sticks 32 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,880 and back triggers. These all for our hall effect, which is great. It means it'll be a little bit 33 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,480 more reliable and you're not going to deal with stick drift as quickly. Looks like they've got 34 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,800 touch pads here or something. I'm not sure we'll have to investigate once we turn it on. 35 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,040 That's a big complaint from a lot of people is they like the Steam Deck's touch pads, but 36 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:37,040 you don't have it on the ally. Triggers feel a little light. They're not the worst, but the 37 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:44,000 bumpers aren't super satisfying. I'm a big fan of like Xbox 360 era bumpers that are like clicks. 38 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,880 These are a little mushy. Not too bad though. Yeah, it's got four buttons on the back as well. 39 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:54,000 I'll be frank. I never use these. I know that a lot of people might, but for me personally, 40 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,320 it's really not an issue if they don't have the four buttons on the back. I never bought a pro 41 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:03,360 controller or anything like that. Actually, what's this little open? Whoa, comes with a kickstand? 42 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:08,800 Oh, there's a micro SD card slot there. Nice. Okay, this is great. So while it might be really 43 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,920 heavy, it does come with a kickstand, kind of like the Legion Go or the Switch OLED. So if you do 44 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:18,400 want to like grab a controller, hook it up through Bluetooth or even wired because it's got, looks 45 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:25,520 like, yeah, both top and bottom USB-C ports, which is another huge plus. You can just game 46 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:29,520 like this. No problem on an airplane or at home. If you know, you just want to game in the living 47 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:36,240 room from your couch. That's really cool. Actually, really happy to see that. Close it for now. 48 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:43,280 Face buttons feel, yeah, perfectly fine. They're a little small, but not too small. I don't know 49 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:50,160 what this T button is. And the three dots that T might be for IS-based turbo, maybe. And then 50 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,360 we've got a little volume rocker on the top, power switch, USB-A. That's actually really 51 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,920 surprising to see a USB-A port on this thing. One of the really cool things about these USB-C 52 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:05,040 ports is that they're USB-4. And even if they're only Gen 1, they're going to be running at at 53 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:10,560 least 40 gigabit per second. So you've got a lot of bandwidth to play with here. I also just really 54 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:17,600 like this like silver, shiny exterior that it's got on the plastic. I don't know. It feels retro. 55 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:23,120 Who does a light silver like this anymore? I kind of dig it, though. It doesn't look like 56 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,600 there's a ton of visible screws. I know that previous INEOs weren't that hard to take apart. 57 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,360 We've got two on the bottom here. And then I'm guessing you take off this little rocker bar, 58 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,280 which is also a couple of switches. I pull that off, more screws, take it all apart. 59 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:40,000 Shouldn't be too hard. Previous ones weren't too bad. One thing that probably contributes to how 60 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,720 heavy this is that I forgot to mention earlier is it's got a 75 watt hour battery, which is enormous. 61 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:51,680 The Legion Go has a 50 watt hour and then the Steam Deck and the ally are both something around 40. 62 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:59,200 That's 19,500 milliamp hours. It is a lot of juice. This thing is packing a 7840U from AMD, 63 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:04,720 which is similar to what the ally has and what a Legion Go is equipped with. The difference here 64 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:11,680 that INEO has managed is that it can turbo up to 54 watts TDP, which is significantly higher than 65 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,920 both of those other handhelds. So I'm really curious to see. I mean, it's going to drain the battery 66 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:21,520 way faster, but I want to see just like how much performance you can really eke out of this 7840U. 67 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:28,160 So let's turn it on and give it a try. Whoa, INEO. It's got little specs. It's an IPS screen. 68 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,960 So it's okay. It's not an OLED like the Steam Deck OLED, but it hits like 500 nits supposedly. 69 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,240 It actually gets brighter than advertised, measuring around 600 nits. I want to check 70 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,600 what the refresh rate and everything is. So I'm going to go into ispace. That's cool. 71 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,360 They've got their performance modes, but I don't like how it's like triple A game, 72 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,840 normally game, retro game. I guess that's easy for some people. Unlimited FPS. You can cap your 73 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:53,920 FPS, which is a great feature. It's also got a little battery estimate here, two hours, 25 minutes, 74 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,240 but I think that says 18 watts. So it's a little hard to trust that upon further review. 75 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,880 Ispace has an option in the main program that has a title for CPU turbo, but it's disabled by 76 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:08,560 default despite the 54 watts being a really big selling point. Brightness is cranked, airplane 77 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,600 mode off, always off. And then the T for the T button. The T button is for the touchpad, 78 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:18,240 and it brings up a bunch of touchpad controls like gestures, click control, because yeah, 79 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:24,000 you can, you can click on them too, like buttons. Okay. So that's acting as like a most cursor left 80 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,400 click or right click. Cool. Display settings. Perfect. Display settings. What are you running 81 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:36,720 at? What's your refresh rate? 60 Hertz. Oh, okay. I'll admit I'm a little spoiled. I know that the 82 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:43,520 120 Hertz refresh rate on the ally and the Legion aren't like huge features for some people. 83 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:49,120 Even the Steam Deck OLED is 90 Hertz now. 75 even really helps with that. Not input delay, 84 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:54,240 but I don't know, just like hitchy kind of mouse look. And I don't like it. And it's a really minor 85 00:07:54,320 --> 00:08:00,320 complaint. But I know you pack this is supposed to be a high end top tier system with like a 86 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:06,000 really good IPS screen. And you couldn't do more than 60 Hertz. I'm a little disappointed. It is 87 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:11,120 a touchscreen. It's a really good feature for when games are broken. And you need to like go to 88 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:16,560 Windows home screen to try to do whatever you need to do to force close the game. You can just swipe 89 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:21,600 up and boom, it all tabs out for you, essentially. I've been playing a lot of Pacific Drive. I just 90 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,080 want to see how it handles Pacific Drive. They claim it gets up to 500 nits. And frankly, it kind 91 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,480 of seems like this thing gets really bright. That's another really easy way to save on battery life 92 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,040 as well. If you don't have a handheld yet, like you can just turn this all the way down. And it's 93 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:44,560 still playable in low light. Do you hear that? That is loud. 94 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:54,080 54 watts, baby. Let's go. What I'm looking for is a camera if iSpace has a built in frame rate 95 00:08:54,080 --> 00:09:01,840 counter. It doesn't look like it. It is claiming to pull 50 watts, which is wild. CPU GPU 71C and 96 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:10,000 64C, if you believe their reader. 5400 RPM is what that fan is spinning at. And I believe it. 97 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:15,360 You know, this is why you've got headphones. You just drown out that fan. It's got Bluetooth 5.2 98 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,960 as well if you don't have any old aux cable headphones anymore. This is chop. Let me let me 99 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,840 change some let me change some in game settings here. One thing I'll note is I just went to pause 100 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:30,800 the game and it felt very uncomfortable moving my thumb all the way down here to do so. 101 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:38,320 Almost all the other devices have their pause and options buttons like right here near the top. 102 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:45,920 Like why is the touchpad button that I'm going to use once every I don't know month or whatever 103 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:50,880 way up here. It should be maybe down here or down here. I think they've just got too many buttons. 104 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:55,600 Here's your hamburger and like typical options button that you see in most consoles now. 105 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:01,040 This d-pad feels bad now that I'm using it to like actually use menus and stuff. It just feels 106 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:06,160 I don't want an eight point touch d-pad built like this. I just want like four clear buttons 107 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:11,040 then you can press two at the same time. That would be very preferable. It's not getting stuck 108 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:16,320 or anything but it feels a little sticky and I definitely don't like the d-pad. I'll admit I 109 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,480 haven't played this on my ally yet. It is a bit more demanding even though it's just kind of an 110 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:27,040 indie game. It's got a lot of effects so it looks really pretty. This is playable. This is probably 111 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,600 like 30 maybe 40 FPS with some hitching every now and then. Part of the problem with Windows 112 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:37,280 handhelds versus the Steam Deck with Steam OS is that you kind of run into problems like this 113 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:42,560 where it's like no I tried to tell you to do full screen and then it's like okay but I don't want 114 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:46,640 to do full screen because you're telling me to do 1280 by 720 so it's like okay cool let me change 115 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:52,640 the Windows resolution to 1280 by 720 then relaunch the game then let it work. It doesn't happen in 116 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:57,200 every title. A lot of them just work seamlessly. Okay that's a lot better. We changed Windows to 117 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:03,680 1280 by 800 and then we changed the game resolution to match that and then we turned everything to low 118 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:10,000 and while this fan is still cranked like it is cruising the game performance is 119 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,520 markedly improved and it's much more playable now. Yo this looks great. Turn my headlights on. 120 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:20,400 I mean don't get me wrong game looks a lot worse when everything's set to low but in terms of just 121 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:25,920 playability totally playable. Let's try the speakers out. Let's you know let's turn the volume up. 122 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:32,960 Yeah this is totally fine. It's hard though because like the speakers. I hit like a single 123 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:39,760 object and the performance just tanked. That's not bad. Let's let's try CrabRave and like see 124 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:45,520 how it is especially when the game is not running and so the fans aren't like just blasting YouTube. 125 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,720 I gotta say one of the really nice things about having this big 8.4 inch screen is that 126 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:57,360 using it as a Windows device feels okay. Like watching YouTube videos and everything. It feels 127 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:04,800 like actually usable and full screen. Look at that. That's beautiful. Screen covers 90% of DCI-P3. 128 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:12,800 That's not bad. 129 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:16,960 That's 50%. 130 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:26,560 So they're bottom firing speakers coming out of these slots right here. Even though you kind of 131 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:31,520 cover them up when you put them on the kickstand it doesn't really kill the volume which is really 132 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:35,920 nice. I'd say they're adequate. Maybe a little worse than a full-fat laptop but you know they're 133 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:41,520 not bad. It is wild that it lets you just turbo to 54 watts without a plugged in. The ally you need 134 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:47,280 to be plugged in to do 35. Grab the controller and kick back. My brother and Christ I am holding 135 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:53,440 what is a controller and a computer at the same time. Well this is actually really playable. 136 00:12:54,480 --> 00:13:00,880 I'm pretty sure I'm still at like uh 1600p to those fans. 137 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:10,720 Returnal at 800p we're getting 42 average FPS and 30 at the 1% lows when we're using 138 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:16,240 54 watts. If we turn that down to 30 watts it hardly changes anything going to 40 and 28. 139 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:21,600 Compared to our Legion Go though we're getting a 37 average so even at 30 watts it's beating it. 140 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:26,800 What's surprising is that in some other games like Rocket League it doesn't always maintain that edge. 141 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:33,200 For instance we're seeing a slightly higher frame rate on the Legion Go despite using more juice on 142 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:38,720 the Ionio Quinn using the same processor. So take that for what you will. But overall performance 143 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,840 is you know fine in the games that we tested. In our endurance testing setting this and the Legion 144 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:50,880 Go to 200 nits it actually didn't do all that much better. In YouTube endurance testing we got 145 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:56,640 seven hours out of both systems. Our combustor stress test gets a big DNF when you set it to 146 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:01,680 54 watts. For whatever reason it simply fails to complete the test despite the CPU only reaching 147 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:07,920 about 75 degrees. For a prime 95 stress test at max brightness on 30 watts we're getting an hour 148 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:13,680 in 29 minutes compared to our Legion Go which was hitting an hour 35. However we did notice that the 149 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:19,760 CPU on the go was only drawing about 20 watts for most of the test. So that does account for the 150 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,840 major difference in battery life here. One more thing that I failed to mention earlier is that the 151 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:28,320 power button also has a fingerprint scanner if you like unlocking your device like that. 152 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,440 And if you prefer facial recognition it's got a little camera right here. 153 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:41,440 As for the price that's where things get a little iffy. If you want the 16 gigs of RAM with 512 gig 154 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:50,800 SSD we are talking about over 1100 us dollars which is a lot. A Steam Deck is what like half of that. 155 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:57,440 The Ally is half of that. The even the Legion Go is a similar price as the other two devices like 156 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:03,040 Man it's it's hard. I would love to support a more indie developer like Aynio but they're also I 157 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,880 mean they've been putting these out for a while now. So are they even indie? I don't know. It's 158 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:11,440 it's hard to say. That's that's rough. And then if you want you can spend another hundred dollars 159 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:17,200 and get the doubled capacity version of this guy with 32 gigs of RAM and one terabyte SSD. 160 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,920 We're talking 100 bucks for literally doubling. It's totally worth it. I think at that point. 161 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:27,200 Although to be frank I probably won't recommend this to any of my friends. Maybe if the 75 watt 162 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:31,840 hour battery performed a little better than it did in our testing because then you'd have a 163 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:36,720 pretty good argument right? That's that's the real big issue with a lot of handhelds is like 164 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:41,680 it doesn't last that long. Steam Deck is probably the best especially when you're running it in 165 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:46,240 low wattage but like the reality is with a lot of these things you're not going to get more than 166 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,480 a couple hours out of them. Maybe three if you really push it for the most part. I prefer just 167 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:55,200 keeping them plugged in and playing at the couch so for me the battery is not even an appeal. 168 00:15:55,200 --> 00:16:01,600 I want the lightest system I can get 945 grams. That's almost a kilo. It's really heavy honestly. 169 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,760 And that's on top of the fact that Ionio hasn't always had the best customer service in the past 170 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:11,040 as well. Even with this launch they've had some issues getting all the units to their customers. 171 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:18,960 We had reports of the d-pad sticking and I'm not so sure that I would trust someone like that with 172 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:24,560 $1200. Thanks so much for watching. Like, comment, subscribe. If you want to check out another one 173 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:28,320 look at the Ionio slide. It's got a slide up screen with a keyboard underneath.