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don't trust your eyes that is not a nintendo switch with sweet clear plastic

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joy-cons in fact it's not even made by

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nintendo at all that's right it's a full-blown gaming pc

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in the shape of a nintendo switch it's got controller buttons joysticks and a

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d-pad and based on the marketing at least it's got enough raw gaming dragon

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energy to compete with real handheld consoles while carrying the weight of a

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full Windows 10 installation how you might ask let me put it this way

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if you saw the gpd win3 and you thought man how awesome would it be if they did

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that but they went AMD i'm holding the answer

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devices like the a neo are clearly niche compared to purpose-built handheld

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consoles from the likes of nintendo but as the hardware has caught up to the

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idea of a handheld portable gaming pc

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the popularity of these is absolutely exploding as of filming this video the

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gpd win3 which is kind of the incumbent in the category has raised over 3

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million us dollars on its indiegogo campaign

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and why shouldn't it honestly for being hands-on it's pretty great

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which means though that the neo here is going to have to be even greater in

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order to stand out aya's company history is short but fascinating it was only

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founded at the start of 2020 by a man we'll be calling uncle a who dreamed of

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creating a truly zero compromises gaming experience that he could take with him

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anywhere he ended up moving to shenzhen and despite having no obvious business

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experience here he is a year later with a team of 11 people over a thousand

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pre-orders for the console in china and an indiegogo that's already raised one

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and a half million us dollars and we're going to have that linked below but i

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wouldn't recommend clicking it just yet because all of that sounds like a pretty

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unbelievable story and we haven't even tried this thing out for you yet

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now under normal circumstances i like to crack open these kinds of devices to

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take a look at the internal layout but what's cool is a actually saved me some

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trouble by sending over one of their limited edition units with a clear

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plastic shell at the heart of it we find their raptor hexacore ryzen 5 4500u with

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vega 6 integrated graphics which i guess is their way of saying it

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has a ryzen 5 4500u processor i don't

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know where the raptor stuff comes from it's paired with 16 gigs of ddr4x memory

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clocked in at 42.66 megahertz and then up here is a full-sized m.2 slot with a

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one terabyte western digital sn530 NVMe SSD and over here we can see the 47 watt

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hour battery now these would be pretty modest specs in a laptop

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but hand-held they're a lot more impressive and really

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cool on that note by the way the built-in all-copper cooler is small but

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i would describe as fairly mighty we did experience thermal

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throttling during heavy extended workloads but it managed to hold our 6

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core CPU at over 2.8 gigahertz and without getting unpleasantly allowed

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when it comes to general use the neo continues to improve aya offers a

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download on their website to joyx off which allows you to use the controller

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inputs for mouse control but it still falls behind the win3s hardware keyboard

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that's hidden behind a sliding screen to be clear gpd's approach is not

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perfect but if you've ever used the on-screen keyboard on a nintendo switch

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you'll have a pretty good idea of what the experience is like on the neo where

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even typing something basic like lttstore.com

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such fine merchandise requires shifting your grip or reaching beyond the point

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of comfort one cool quality of life improvement is the inclusion of these

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two four button clusters on each side the left has xbox style start and select

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keys a shortcut to Windows game bar menu and a toggle for the built-in green

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lighting should turn that on while the right has the Windows and

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escape keys and shortcuts to bring up task manager and the on-screen keyboard

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curiously though this keyboard button summons the worthless classic Windows

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on-screen keyboard so i would strongly recommend just pushing here in the

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bottom right corner and getting the touch appropriate one what all this

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tells me is that you could make a case for the neo as a daily driver pc it's

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got three usb type-c 10 gigabit ports with displayport 1.4 built in i mean

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that's better io than some decent sized laptops already

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but then that argument falls apart a little bit unless you're willing to dock

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it every time you want to do more than just browse youtube or netflix because

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it's just not that easy to use clearly

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uncle a was laser focused on building a portable gaming system

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and for that you know what uncle you got a lot of things right starting

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with the screen the neos 7-inch hips

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panel has a peak brightness of 500 nits and resolution of just 1280x800

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but you know what that's actually a really good choice here i wouldn't start

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doing all my photoshop work on it but it's bright and accurate enough that

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it's not distracting and it offers reasonable pixel density while being

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much easier for the low powered integrated graphics to drive at its

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native resolution now it's only 60 hertz but given that we're looking at a little

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over an hour and a half of battery life in a moderately demanding game like

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rocket league that was probably a wise choice

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the biggest thing that stands out about the gaming experience though is the

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screen because seven inch doesn't sound a lot bigger than the 6.2 inches of the

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nintendo switch but it feels downright immersive especially

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compared to the 5.5 inch display on the gpd win3 where it falls behind however

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is the speakers while they're large they

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did not meet my expectations and could be best described as tinny and hollow

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thankfully the controller experience makes up a significant amount of this

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ground they're joy-con style which means that if your hands are better described

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as paws you might end up cramping after an extended play session but as someone

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with smaller hands who is used to using the nintendo switch i found them

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downright usable that is as long as i wasn't trying to play a racing game

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unlike the win3 the neo does not have analog style trigger buttons as for

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performance it's really good even though AMD's zen 2

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based 4500u isn't quite enough to keep up with the 11th gen core chosen by gpd

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esports games like rocket league run well enough that i would describe them

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as butter smooth and as for aaa games

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while aye has claimed that it can run cyberpunk should be taken with a grain

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of salt the game does technically run

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even if it feels extremely sluggish and definitely doesn't look its best

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emulation on the other hand is frankly awesome and since we're relying on AMD

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rather than Intel graphics drivers we encountered far fewer random

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incompatibilities and glitches a bigger performance issue we ran into

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seemed to be related to wi-fi in online matches we'd experience leg spikes and

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irregularities that were resolved by plugging in a dongle and switching to a

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wire so what we'd like to see before they ship this thing is maybe some

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tweaks to the wi-fi antenna while they're also fixing the speakers

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but there's good news because other than those two complaints if you're the kind

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of person who wants a device like this in your life aya is off to an incredibly good start

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here like gpd has been playing in this game for a lot longer and it does show

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in the maturity of their designs but the neo is already a dangerous competitor

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and i expect that the rivalry between these two is only going to heat up once

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mobile ryzen chips with AMD zen3 architecture start showing up in fact i

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was reading today gpd is working on a zen-based uh win max

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anyway as always we won't outright recommend a crowdfunded product it's not

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finished yet but at around the same price as the win3

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this one is compelling enough that as i said before we're at least gonna put the

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win3 it's also pretty sick