I'm struggling a lot with this video why are we making it who could possibly care
and why does this product exist this is
the GPD win it is a Windows-based one of
those translators that all the Korean kids in class use to cheat on their
spelling tests in theory it's a gaming device it
has a gam pad built in but it runs an Intel Cherry Trail processor with
onboard Graphics meaning is it capable of Gaming well there's really only one
way to find out by watching this video
also you could just read discussion about it on Reddit but you're here at
this video now you might as well keep
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Code Linus at the link in the video description so let's start with what the
heck is this thing inside the Box you
get oh that's my Windows 10 key don't worry too much about that but you get
the GPD win you get uh some ripoff Apple
ear pods go ahead and take a look at those while I open up the other crap
that's in here you get a USB typc cable
there you go looks a little something like that you get a USB charger it's a 2
and 1/2 amp fun fact this thing will
lose charge during heavy use and by
heavy use I mean downloading games in Steam it will lose charge on a 2 Amp
device so you're going to want to use that puppy if you want to game for you
know more than a few hours at a time on it and you get these instructions most
of which are in English but not
all on the other side they are okay so
let's have a look at what we're dealing with here we've got a air exhaust we've
got intake apparently they're both intakes
which is actually not how that works but sure GPD we've got a fan switch off low
and high I'd recommend high it's really not that loud it's right up to my mic
not that bad you got a couple of speaker ports here and then uh not a whole lot
else going on around the bottom except oh look at that more ioe than the
MacBook how shocking so we've got a type-c connector that's for charging
we've got a mini HDMI we've got a Micro SD slot see that wasn't so hard look how
thin that is apple look how thin that is
is that that hard to put on your device yeah I thought so all right we've got a
type a connector so that's USB 3 going by the color and a headset Jack so
that's your microphone headphone combo Jack also yes my friends L1 R1 L2 and L1
buttons because this is a freaking
gaming device sort of I guess let's go
ahead and uh oh no no how do I jump over him I don't remember anymore oh there we
go that's right that's how Batman jumps look at that I running Batman Arkham
Asylum at 39 frames per second and we're
dip down to 34 in a fight scene sometimes it goes all the way down to a
cinematic 24 but really it's not that bad so let's have a look at what they've
got over here they've got a d-pad they've got a couple of joysticks
they've got an ABX wild check that out emulation much they've also got
PlayStation logos on the uh buttons there so you don't get confused when
you're playing oh I don't know say for example Final Fantasy 7 and you're
trying to play on like a PC controller it's all like okay March along with the
other guys in the band press X Plus triangle I'm like which one's X I've
never played on a PlayStation in my life uh what else we got here full keyboard
as well as some auxiliary buttons here including start see I paused before you
hit me right there start select print screen L3 R3 volume up and volume down
dedicated buttons for that definitely thumbs up there an Xbox button and power
but what are the capabilities like I mean I guess I just showed you
but it does more hold on so that's a surprisingly good gaming experience I
mean sure it's an older AAA title but the fact that it runs at all on
something this size is pretty darn impressive and even more so it's got a
6700 Milah battery which resulted in about about 20% of it being lost in the
time that we were playing the game not too bad and not every game is going to
be as intensive as you know something like Batman Arkham Asylum so let's say
you wanted to fire up the old emulator I'm actually pretty impressed again
Orlando doesn't need healing anyway because he's like a badass but whatever
check this out Final Fantasy Tactics running on ePSXe anywhere from 30 to 60
FPS somewhere in that range which is frankly good enough for this compy of
experience that's right Auto potion you just did like 18
damage so gaming wise I'm actually pretty darn impressed so far it's got 64
gigs of emmc storage 4 gigs of RAM meaning you've got a pretty decent spec
computer in your hands so then of course you know the next step for me is what
about not gaming this is actually where it stood out to me even more because
you've got your D and X input mode for
the game pad then you've got this mouse mode in the middle that's actually
surprisingly intuitive to use so the right stick becomes a mouse and remember
you've also got a touchscreen so you're not like limited to just waiting for
this to move around as you you know browse forums or whatever else the case
may be left and right click are handled by the shoulder buttons back
there and this left one here is now a
scroll it is shockingly intuitive to use
and and actually very pleasant as long as you can you have decent Vision
because text is not very big and given this is a 5 and A2 in 720p screen as
soon as you try to scale anything within Windows you're going to end up with a
lot of usability problems like bringing up uh Windows that have all the buttons
cut off on the right and the bottom Which is far from my only complaint the
wobble on the shoulder buttons in particular however quality the switches
under them might be is at the very borderline of what I would consider to
be intact let alone and acceptable and I
ran into a very interesting bug maybe it's Unique to my unit but I kind of
doubt it this is pre-production to be very very clear where while I'm plugged
in and charging I can't actually boot up the device I have to unplug boot it
throw it back in and then I can use it while I charge practically speaking
though none of that stuff really changes the usability of the device that much
and there are a shocking number of ways
to use it so right now I've actually
mixed things up and I'm using steam and home streaming to stream this game off
of a computer upstairs that's how I'm running rocket League at a solid 60
frames per second with no dips whatsoever at the highest quality pretty
freaking cool and made possible by the fact that they didn't cheap out on those
little things that you often see on Cheapo handheld devices like dualband
Wi-Fi and another interesting use case while I don't necessarily agree with the
optimism that GPD has about you know how
great it is as a productivity device is getting actual work done because the
team viewer experience is frankly not that great from a phone and being able
to remote in and use a computer with a mouse and keyboard is a pretty
compelling use case one that my wife brought up almost immediately when she
looked at it so I guess all that's really left then is the conclusion is it
worth the price of admission which is somewhere between 3 50 to
$400 for something that in essence is a
fatter clunkier Nintendo DS that runs a
full Windows 10 operating system which
kind of blew my mind and the answer is I up to
you personally I wouldn't buy one but
what this does make me excited for is the future of hyper mobile devices like
this when they get just a little bit more power like it's feels kind of like
the iPhone to me is it as revolutionary as the iPhone no to be very clear but
it's kind of like the iPhone to me where it's like hey there's this like great
idea but like it's kind of not that great right now but stay tuned like five
years from now it's going to be awesome that's what I feel this is
like let me know in the comments below if you agree or if you think I totally
missed the mark So if you're not familiar with mass drop they're a
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today's drop is the noble X they are made in the USA and they
offer a great sound signature with a midnight blue anodized face plate and a
detachable cable and they ship with two pairs of silicone ear tips two foam ear
ear tips one pair of silicone ear tips
presumably this will make sense visually a cleaning tool a carrying case and a
warranty from Noble audio I mean they got Noble right in the name what are the
odds they don't honor it right now selling for
$249.99 with free domestic shipping in the US check that out at the link in the
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