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now normally we won't cover every pie in

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the sky ambitious indiegogo project because we never know when something

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might take forever to ship or even turn out to be an outright scam and make us

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look bad because people think that we were promoting it

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so if just anyone had reached out and said hey hey Linus

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come on over here we're making the world's smallest ultrabook

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go check out our indiegogo page we'd probably have closed the email and

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continue doing the very very important things that we do around here

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but it wasn't just anyone it was gpd

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technology who has a very respectable

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pedigree when it comes to designing and building super compact Windows and

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gaming devices so then

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this is it the p2 max

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it's the world's smallest ultrabook

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and it is shockingly usable

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so on paper the p2 max is the closest

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thing to a bonafide laptop in gpd's

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lineup yet it's got an 8.9 inch screen

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so that's about the size of the smallest acer aspire 1 netbook from back in the

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day but at a much higher resolution it's

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got touchscreen support and even stylus input support it's only 650 grams so

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that's a little under one and a half pounds for our american friends and it

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sports up to 16 gigs of lp ddr3 memory

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this is pretty cool it's got a fingerprint sensor for Windows hello

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so you just go ahead and

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boots up just like that and the i o is competitive with even some full-sized

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laptops that i've seen so you've got a full-size usb type a on the left along

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with a three and a half millimeter jack then over on the right you've got a

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micro HDMI now i'm not a huge fan of this connector

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because it is quite fragile but the

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saving grace here is that you've also got a full-size usb type-a so that's two

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of those as well as a usb type-c and usb

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type-c makes so much sense for a device

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like this because with one dongle

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and this is one that i carry around all the time i can go

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here we go power in gigabit Ethernet

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three more usb type a's a full size HDMI

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and of course an sd and a micro sd slot

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pretty darn portable so i want to do a full shutdown here so

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we can have a look at what the boot time is like from cold

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give it a sec it's a pretty quick shutdown

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dang wow that was a cold boot

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not too bad now with that said the fan does ramp up

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pretty loud on first boot uh it does settle in once your background processes

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finish launching and all that but

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it's definitely audible now after first boot and spending some

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time just you know navigating the os you know launching

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browser logging into my email all that kind of stuff there were a few

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observations that i made about usability first and foremost being that the

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trackpad is in my opinion the weakest point of the device and that

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really surprised me not because it looked really amazing or anything but

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because usually these sub-compact devices have their keyboards as their

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biggest flaw now for the trackpad the size here

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it is usable like you can see i can get most of the way across the screen at a

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pretty natural speed but it still felt like a big compromise

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and the movement rejection while clicking

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made the cursor move around a little bit more than i'd like causing me to miss on

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my double click sometimes so it just wasn't that smooth to use

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by contrast however the keyboard which i

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expected to be the sole reason that i wouldn't find a device like this usable

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it ended up being really well balanced like here's the

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thing compared to uh here here we go compared to their pocket too

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they only had an extra about i don't know what would you say that's about an

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inch and change to work with but i guess this is still more evidence that

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every inch can make a big difference to

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the experience so what we lose

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on the p2 max is a dedicated delete key

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but i'm okay with that because function delete is pretty good but what we gain

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is much better spaced arrow keys

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a much more favorable layout in terms of hitting things like uh period and comma

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down here we get better spacing between the keys

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this feels a lot more cramped than this

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one does it makes a shockingly big difference

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and this feeling of being less cramped is especially evident right here along

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the left side of the keyboard where escape tab caps lock shift and control

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are all in reasonably natural positions now that's not to say that

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it doesn't take some getting used to the idiosyncrasies of this layout for

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example instead of your semicolon and apostrophe your right pinky is now enter

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although at least period and comma are reasonably easy to reach down here as

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are forward slash and your apostrophe right here

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and then the other really big one is the fact that there's only a single control

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and a single alt so if you wanted to perform something like alt f4 you got to

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kind of do that and then oh right only a single shift that one

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does still bother me but i also understand why they went this way and i

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don't see how i could have done it any better

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now moving on to the display it's a 16 by 10 display which some of

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you probably already noticed because it is a big deal and it makes the screen

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feel much bigger than it is both because you get that extra vertical space which

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amounts to less scrolling through content when you're reading and because

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it actually is physically larger than an equal sized

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16x9 screen about two and a half percent bigger now how happy you're going gonna

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be with the CPU performance of a machine like this is going to depend heavily on

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your expectations it's still only two hyper threaded cores

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so i mean i was sitting at around 65 to

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70 percent [ __ ] off chrome

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it was interrupting full screen video to prompt me to set it to default

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wow like i'm already using you

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so i was sitting at around 65 to 70 CPU

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usage while i was installing premiere and launching steam for the first time

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and i actually spiked to a hundred percent while installing cross code with

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the fan clearly audible above the hvac in my office

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but at least that fan noise does come with a benefit the m3 8100y in this

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thing managed to turbo up to 2.6 2.7

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gigahertz under full all core loads and i even saw spikes as high as 3 gigahertz

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while performing moderately strenuous tasks and that's that's really

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impressive when you consider the 1.1

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gigahertz base clock of the CPU in this thing so

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in the real world then this aggressive turbo behavior along with its support

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for hyper threading and the very pleasant surprise of a full pci

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express gen 3 x4 link to the p2 max's

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NVMe SSD boot drive translated into

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not a fast but a very

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responsive experience like it's really not bad you know

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let's here let's go ahead and launch a game or something like here's a game that i've never launched on this thing

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just installed it for lulz like that's it's portal it's not heavy

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but that's a quick game launch so it's that responsiveness that i think gives

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gpd some credibility when they say that this is an ultrabook as opposed to a

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netbook because light productivity uses like photoshop are absolutely possible

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and in an emergency even light video editing was possible to be clear i'm not

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endorsing switching to any dual core ultrabook as your premiere pro

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workstation but here's a little project that i did as a Floatplane exclusive

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behind the scenes it's just shot on my phone 1080p so it's not heavy footage

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but the thing is in spite of the 100 usage for both the CPU and GPU

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it's actually surprisingly responsive to work on

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now coming back to some more likely use cases for a machine like this

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its ac wi-fi speeds were really good i managed 300 megabit both up and down on

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our high speed connection here at our office so that resulted in

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fast downloads responsive web browsing and fast cloud

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synchronization and it was also actually a really good experience for steam

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in-home streaming or i think they call it remote play now so with that

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i can actually play desktop games off of

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machines elsewhere in the office here so here you go let's go ahead and fire up

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some rocket league shall we so this makes for a really impressive

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experience because it's running at native resolution 2560 by 1600 60 frames

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per second and thing is that normally you would get

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some compression artifacts when you

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are streaming over the network instead of running you know natively on the pc's

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display except that because this display is so

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small it actually ends up looking shockingly

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clean oops i suck at this game oh yeah like it

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looks so sharp and watching 4k youtube videos was

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honestly equally impressive so here's one of our videos running at 4k

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30fps i'm going to go ahead and alt tab out of this and you can see our onboard

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Intel uhd 615 graphics are running at about 25

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and our CPU is sitting in the you know

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20 to 25 range and even more impressively is not even at base clock

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so it's actually in a power saving state right now while smoothly playing back 4k

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video and you know i think really watching

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4k youtube is one of the best use cases

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for this device the screen is super

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sharp thanks to its 2560x1600 resolution

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it's bright it's tuned fairly neutrally

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so you won't end up with that best buy showroom experience out of the box and

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the size of it allows it to sit nicely in between the inconvenience of pulling

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a full-size laptop out of your bag and

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the tiny whiny

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eye straino vision of watching content on your phone

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see look at that it's like right in between

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all right let's go ahead and crack this thing open

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really the most impressive thing about this thing was that it never really felt

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slow like it didn't feel fast all the time but i never was like sitting there

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going wow i'm really just waiting around for this thing so let's have a let's

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have a look at the internals here so there's our processor dual core hyper

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threaded as i mentioned before Intel Wi-Fi chip right there

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here's our RAM so it looks like they've soldered that onto the board rather than

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using a so dim and i guess they've got a good reason for it because when i

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checked inside hardware info i actually found that the RAM is running in dual

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channel mode at least on the 16 gig version so that's really nice because

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there will be a performance benefit there the battery is a 35 watt hour

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affair that actually takes up a very significant portion of the internals of

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the device here so you can see it's the full thickness of the thing and

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actually the only thing over here on this side of it seems to be this small

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daughter board for io and then finally we've got a pretty good look at the

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cooling system here so that's our ah

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regrettably pretty whiny little fan and then we've got a single heat pipe

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running from the CPU which of course has the graphics built into it over to a

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small heat exchanger that exhausts here at the back of the unit

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overall there's not much for me to complain about build quality wise they

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are using a single unibody piece of aluminum so you can actually see even

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with the bottom cover off there's not a ton of flex here and unlike their

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previous devices i was actually very pleasantly surprised by the quality of

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the speakers in the p2 max they're not

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amazing but they are definitely usable and at

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least their stereo and obviously the flex is even better once you actually

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put the bottom on the thing so the conclusion here is i think it's

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obvious that i have a bit of a soft bot for gpd i mean to be clear they've never

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sponsored us or anything like that and i've never even met anyone there face to

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face i guess i just can excuse some of the

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compromises that they make in their designs because i respect someone who's

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willing to do things differently instead of just

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making the same bloody thing as everyone else over and over and over again like

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it's it's kind of like what i said about the original lg gram like yeah it had

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some build quality issues and honestly so does the p2 max there's

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more rattle in the trackpad than i'd like though they may fix that for mass

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production but lg had a goal

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make the lightest device and dammit they accomplished that so

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same thing here yeah you're going to have to change some

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of your typing habits but assuming that you've got pretty good eyes and you can

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handle the smaller screen you will be carrying around a shockingly functional

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and convenient device that weighs just one and a half pounds and

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this absolutely blew my mind even though like

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it shouldn't like it makes sense it charges

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off of a flipping 30 watt quick charge

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phone adapter that's pretty freaking cool

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so even though the p2 max isn't the

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smallest device out of gpd i think it is their best

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and their most usable one to date and at

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around 700 us dollars in the indiegogo campaign i think it's priced

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not low but definitely reasonably so thanks for

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