is this supposed to be in the case
I mean I guess it makes sense that no mere mortal case could possibly contain
the 1X player oxp2 this thing is
basically like if your steam deck was bigger faster higher resolution and
this little party trick the controllers come off it's like a switch but like
massive oh and they're really cool check
this out hall effect joysticks pretty
good feeling ABX wise shoulder buttons
feel all right too but hall effect triggers that's right better accuracy
most importantly better durability and my expectation is that they're gonna
have very little in the way of dead zones because of the way hall effect
sensors work you don't need to have a giant Dead Zone in the middle in order
to prevent drift which isn't really preventing it it's just masking it until
it becomes egregious let's talk about the compute body they don't that's not
their name for it that's my name for it this right here is packed full of the
latest text so it's got an AMD ryzen 6800u that means eight Zen three cores
and a Radeon 6800 mgpu that's an even
more powerful rdna2 GPU than what is found in the steam deck which it should
be because it does cost considerably more and as actually considerably
looking like thicker look at this thing go holy schnikes I mean yeah I know that
obviously none of the computers in the controllers because these are super
light these way like next to nothing but that is a thick boy compared to the
steam deck there's some other really interesting stuff going on here too it's available anywhere from 512 gig all the
way up to two terabyte capacities and it's got USB a okay micro SD expansion
USB 4 with claimed support for egpus
headphone jack volume up and down power button and yes that's right my friends
right next to the little label that says hardcore Gamers is a turbo button taking
me back to the 486 days I love it
obviously nothing on the side except for the povo pin pads that are going to
contact these controllers and then on the bottom ah another USBC connector I
actually don't know which one is usb4 because my spec sheet only mentions one
usb4 port so cool we've also got our speaker grilles
and this is interesting it does 20 volt 5 amp charging so that's a hundred watt
charging on this thing they claim that you can get to 50 battery capacity in
just half an hour as for the battery capacity they're claiming anywhere from
three to six hours thanks to the 65 watt
hour battery that explains why this
thing is so chunky by comparison the steam deck is somewhere in the 40 to 45
yeah 40 watt hour range so this has over
50 percent more battery capacity that also contributes to some extra weight
it's pretty heavy now this is a prototype but that doesn't mean I'm not
going to give 1X player feedback on it I think these rails have got to get a
little bit tighter there's more wobble in these than I would like to see maybe
they can you know metal up the interface in here but man I've gotta say I am
liking the display these guys have a reputation for packing super high
resolution screens into their handhelds sometimes higher resolution than even
makes sense this one is 2560 by 1600
which I I mean I guess there are some
games that the 6800u would be able to power at that res but that is not going
to be what you're running AAA games at the good news is that that pixel density
is so high that what I've found is that
when you run it at a non-native resolution it doesn't look so bad
compared to the old days when we had you know 1280 by 1024 desktop monitors those
looked awful when you ran them at anything other than native res but once
you get up into like 4K 5K desktop monitors and like 1440p and a 8.4 inch
display it's no longer nearly as big of an issue the interpolation doesn't look
so obvious oh I guess there's some other cool features we can talk about while
that finishes one is that that it's got a kickstand so much like the switch you
don't actually have to use it with the controllers you can just say forget the
controllers pack your own controller whether it's an Xbox controller with
Microsoft's dongle or Playstation or Xbox controller connected via Bluetooth
and then just kind of set it up and game on the go you don't have to run games
natively on the device so in my recent review on the Linus Tech tips channel of
the Logitech gcloud I talked about how sometimes it actually just does make
more sense to stream a game you get better battery life and as long as
you're on your home Wi-Fi I mean man steam link is so good these days that
unless you're playing something that really requires like Pixel Perfect
Precision you're playing like Super Meat Boy or something like that
most people probably won't notice obviously I wouldn't play Counter-Strike
on a streamed connection but I'm also not going to be playing Counter-Strike on like
I scream this size but with my little tiny keyboard and mouse you know horses
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apparently powered by Harman but then again this is just I don't know what a
Harman audio EFX is I haven't heard of that before
oh what the devil is this
huh there's a little magnetic something
that oh okay ah
well the adhesive came off this again that's a prototype
what the heck
the volume down button is opening up the on-screen keyboard right now uh so I
guess we're stuck with game audio okay let's have a look at how big these dead
zones are
ooh
those are bigger than I'd like
look at that no cursor movement
guys you're missing out on a lot of the benefit of a hall effect joystick if
you're gonna have a giant Dead Zone like that in the middle of it yes you still
get the improved durability but like I
want that Precision when you don't have a big dead zone in the middle of it it
makes aiming so much easier
that is not a lot of frames per seconds
okay let's go ahead and get that reconfigured
quick preset medium I don't think so
okay well that's definitely running
yeah there's no obvious Precision advantage to these hall effect dry
sticks when they've got these giant dead zones on them
and look at this okay so I'm going in a straight line
oh I'm moving around this much and I'm
still going in a straight line right if you want to make small adjustments
you've got to have small dead zones
so we're running at one percent low s of around 30 FPS on low at 1280 by 800. oh
but what if we kick things into turbo mode holy crap what is turbo mode doing
we just jumped to a nice 69 average FPS
my one percent lows are Now 46 okay hold
on I'm not I'm not in as dense a spot let's get let's get turned around here
yeah you can you can hear the fan going hey oh whoops oh shoot
100 playable not at the most amazing details we're not turning on Ray tracing
or whatever but this is 100 playable
this is a really big display for 720p though I think 1080 would be my sweet
spot here can we get away with that what do you think can we get away with 1080
dips some tips oh oh I gotta get control of
this car even with the lower frame rate and the dips I would probably play like
this it's not OLED it's not high refresh rate only 60 hertz but they rated at 350
nits with 88 coverage of the ntsc color space and it subjectively anyway looks
pretty darn good no obvious just like oh
yeah the reds are way overblown or greens are way out or anything like that
we you know wouldn't really evaluate a
prototype based on that anyway since that's down to calibration at the factory so that's something that we'd
want to see from like a finished unit to determine how accurate it is out of the
box but it certainly has the capability on a device like this I absolutely would
use Dynamic resolution scaling but I want to see how the hardware actually
performs so I'm turning it off for now never actually played the original game
heard it's really good though
well if I could get up there Brandon
I guess oh you can literally just run up the
wall okay I mean that makes sense you're Spider-Man
you know what whatever I'm having trouble with and try and took
controls here none of that matters my
lows are in the 25 FPS range my averages
are in the 40 FPS range that is extremely playable man the 6800u is a
game changer in terms of mobile gaming this okay it's running hello but it's
running at 1920 by 1200 and on a screen
this size you don't notice graphical details being turned down as much it
looks awesome there's some other cool stuff to talk about these Pogo pins are
apparently for an optional detachable keyboard it has support for up to 4096
pressure levels with like a Microsoft Surface Pen stylus which is
neat I guess it has a six axis gyroscope
so you can use that for aim assist does require a little bit of software
configuration to get that working just right but it can be a great way to make
fine adjustments to your aim especially if you can't rely on your joysticks to
not have dead zones again hopefully they have that fixed for the final version it
starts at 989 dollars so yeah this size
and performance and you know it's not even that loud doesn't get hot comes at
a cost the max spec one is 1400 US dollars but it is a markedly different
experience from what you get with the steam deck the only steam deck is a lot
less expensive oh we never tried the speakers
um these really don't sound very good
um but I'd still I've still seen that done better
bye