no no no no no no no no no no no you
cannot build an entire gaming PC that is
like the size of a PS Vita look at this thing to say that it borrows from the
Vita would be a gross understatement it borrowed and then
it borrowed some more and then it
borrowed some more it's like three feet is thick but the GPD Win 4 may just be
the most handleable the most
console-like of the next gen handheld PC
did this joystick cover just fall off okay it's an early unit all right
they've still got some some kinkles to wrinkle out uh one moment please this
thing is wild we're talking a ryzen 7 6
800u so that's Zen three plus with rdna2
Graphics 16 to 32 gigs of
lpddr5 memory up to two terabytes of
internal NVMe storage and among the best
ergonomic experiences that I've seen to date oh and did I mention it's got usb4
with GPD actually advertising egpu
compatibility wait you could hook an
external graphics card up to this okay let's see what they've got for
accessories
I was gonna get there I'm sitting here I'm sitting here doing the math for how
many watts this is volts times amp says right here 65 watt charger uh type c to
type c so we've got a type c cable but
that is not the main event oh
wow man I'm liking the size now
obviously it doesn't have the same kind of screen size that you've got on
something like a steam deck right where you've got that massive seven inch
display obviously that's a bit of a smaller screen but it's very handleable
like wow I am liking this by default
they've got a joy to Mouse application installed that uses the right joystick
to right there we go move the mouse cursor around you can use your shoulder
buttons to left and right click actually let's take a look at all the different
buttons so you got your abxy here and conveniently GPD they have no idea
you're gonna use this for PlayStation emulation they wouldn't think of it has
gone and put the square circle X and triangle Legends in little tiny printing
on the abxy two joysticks that I would describe as somewhere in between a
mobile only joystick like you'd find on something like the switch and the full
fat joysticks that you'd find on some something like a steam deck they
definitely have some work to do on making sure that the tops of them don't pop off but they're feeling pretty good
are these hall effect hold on hold on I'm gonna guess
I'm saying no they're not
Alps 3D so not hall effect
I am really liking this d-pad also by
going with the lower profile joysticks they make it quite a bit easier to
access your abxy without accidentally bumping the joysticks that's something
that I have run into on other handhelds they've got shoulder trigger oh yeah
look at that they've got Ellen R3 as well so they've got these back mounted
buttons here you've got your volume up volume down on the top power button is
this RGB Lighting in the shoulders okay
things are getting pretty cool uh USB 4
type c connector up here to be clear usb4 is not the same thing as
Thunderbolt and it takes quite a bit of firmware work on the part of the system
maker to ensure that you will actually have compatibility with Thunderbolt
accessories so your mileage may vary on that but we've also got usb-a headphone
jack kicking some hot air out of there already let's say TDP of this bad boy 22
Watts I'm guessing according to motion assistant the shipping TDP is 28 Watts
but it can be adjusted anywhere from five to 35 Watts there's a large intake
at the back where we can see the fan for the cooling system and then on the bottom I love to see this another type c
Port this enables you to either have the
cable coming off the bottom while you're playing and charging or coming off the
top while you're playing and charging depending on what works better for you
in the particular situation you are in
I'm also assuming that these are going to be your start and select or whatever
that's called on wait hold on it not
only has a fingerprint scanner for signing into Windows it has a one of
those Optical Mouse things okay that's pretty cool also because of the screen
size you can actually tap with your thumb pretty easily on the left we've
got a Micro SD slot and there it is the
slider for Mouse mode versus
Gamepad mode so we're going to want to flip that over when we're in a game so
that it actually works as typically an X input game controller device I actually
really like gpd's approach to this compared to like Aya Neo has their is
space application that theoretically detects when you launch a game and just
like switches automatically in practice it's not always perfect whereas this way
I can tell it look I want to play a game now it's 6 inches 1080p which means this
thing is crazy sharp use this Gorilla Glass 5 and this is really cool it is a
native landscape display which might not sound like a big deal to you but in
practice it dramatically reduces the amount of Random dinking around that you
have to do when a game detects the Default Resolution of your display and
shows up sideways like running your display always rotated 90 degrees does
cause some problems in Windows this is not that bright now I didn't crank it
but it's really not that bright is it OLED or something like is that what I'm
dealing with here it's IPS okay
this thing oh yeah this thing oh that's really nice this thing still works even
when you're in controller mode so you still have a mouse that's pretty cool I
mean it's not the greatest thing ever but it's a lot better than not having it
there you go hey nice you know these
joysticks feel not bad like for not good
joysticks I just want to see Hall effects joysticks on everything now ever
since that Gilly kit controller came through here I'm like
and the upgraded steam deck like
a little loud
very little front-facing speakers though pretty hopeful about those
shut um okay
you got my attention GPD wait I haven't
even shown you guys the best gimmick there's a full keyboard in this thing
you know what it's kind of awesome for the ergonomics
too okay I should turn this down a bit I'm at 1080p all high playing this at
like 45 to 50 frames per second
this is absolutely objectively ridiculous
GPD is really showing their experience in this space here oh yeah it's got
Rumble I'd like to see the display improved for release the contrast is not
amazing I don't know am I being unfair to the
display I mean it's it's not OLED obviously because it's not
okay the haptics on this thing are kind of pretty good okay all right all right
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running at like 50 to 60 frames per second
on high are the is the trigger sensitivity
adjustable they're very sensitive out of the box I can't believe I forgot about
the keyboard oh man that is so nice just being able to be like you know what I
don't want this game open anymore alt f4 just like that look at this thing is
this freaking sick or what
man is it like a rumor it's like the Vita except if the Vita was like chatted
out Grandpa you know I don't know I think it's much more like a chatted out
rumor but the devil's a rumor the LG Rumor I thought that was just a rumor
we'll ignore that oh I mean so okay it's kind of like that and that it does have
a slide out keyboard oh it borrows so much more from the Vita though it
borrows the most important bit from the
rumor all right thanks Alex that was really helpful oh
that's amazing um okay let's fire up motion assistant
here it also has a six axis gyroscope so
you can aim like this or at least make fine adjustments so I'm gonna fire up
shadow of the Tomb Raider we'll try and use it touch the screen you can use this
you can use the joystick and you can just tilt it around absolutely Wild
I actually kind of like the ergonomics of just having the screen up even when
I'm not using the keyboard like it just it puts it in a bit of a nicer spot you
know not bad they've done stuff like this before this has got to be the most
elegant one they've done though oh I like that
I do wish there was a little more screen and a little less bezel since we're
waiting around for this let's talk about the hardware in here a little bit if you're not familiar with the 6800u it's
a relatively new Apu from AMD that uses
the same rdna 2 architecture for its Graphics as the steam deck but is
actually a much fatter implementation of
it with 12 compute units versus eight so you can expect games to run quite a bit
better even if all other things were equal but they're not it also uses Zen 3
plus CPU cores compared to the seams decks Zen 2 CPU cores so you may
actually be able to run games at 1080p on this like you would run games at 720p
on this guy of course it's coming in at a significantly higher price
yep it starts higher than a top tier
steam deck at eight hundred dollars but it is significantly more powerful
does have the built-in keyboard making it very versatile one percent lows of
around 40 FPS that is very very playable we've talked about
performance but that performance does come with a cost it needs a 45 watt hour
battery compared to the about 40 watt hour battery in the steam deck to
achieve similar results so you can expect somewhere in the neighborhood of
two hours of battery life if you're running intensive games like this not a
ton but of course you'll be able to stretch it to six eight maybe even 10
hours if you're streaming games or massively down clocking the Apu it's
also a bit on the heavier side it's over a pound about 600 grams and it kind of
feels heavier than it is just because it's so dense but then it's also very
handleable because it's so small and it's nicely rounded I think that the
shoulders are a little bit sensitive for my liking but I actually quite like the
triggers ABX twice feel good and that d-pad feels good it supports Wi-Fi 6 and
has support for what they're calling the Smart Dock which adds three usb-a ports
a USBC Port an HDMI 2.1 port and gigabit
Ethernet so that would be a competitor to something like the steam dock since
its Windows of course the desktop experience will be exactly like what you
would expect from a Windows PC running an AMD CPU and GPU so I would expect it
to be a pretty seamless experience I cannot believe how well games like this
are running on here have I played around with 6800u yet I don't think so
this freaking powerful man 30 FPS one
percent lows that's smooth that's not 30 FPS average
that's 30 FPS when it dips to the lowest
slowest frames that it's generating the speakers are loud but they could stand
to be a little bit better balanced too I hope that's something that they can fine
tune as they make their way to release it's on Indiegogo right now and normally
we wouldn't really talk about Kickstarter or Indiegogo type products
but GPD has a pretty good track record for actually delivering what they say
they're going to deliver and I I'd like to see them tune the speakers a little
bit between now and then they're very audible though they're loud
one thing GPD has done well in the past is make their devices pretty easy to
open and change out Hardware if you really want to I mean obviously these
are very tightly integrated devices so you don't expect to be upgrading your
your CPU or your GPU or anything like that but I would expect to be able to
upgrade storage for example
there we go there's a look at the internals look at this unit of a battery
all right this thing's more battery than
it is computer that is amazing they do have the intake
right over the battery though to help keep that pack cool oh very nice 80
millimeter long SSD so you could pack wow you could pack like a fort maybe
even an eight terabyte SSD into this thing if you really wanted to that's
wild Intel Wi-Fi love to see that ax
1200 man that's incredibly compact isn't
it I'm playing cyberpunk on a handheld at 1080p
not even low settings or anything guys this is outstanding yeah it doesn't run
as as well as Shadow the Tomb Raider or whatever and we need some FSR hackery in
order to make this work okay 20 20 FPS lows but this is absolutely
playable like 100 percent definitely a little warmer to the touch
than I'd like that's a big advantage of valve's much larger design as they were
able to take all the heat generating components and keep them well away from
where you have your hands whereas like this is quite warm particularly here and
here if you're a sweaty gamer that's going to be noticeable but man it's like
almost pocketable you know what I mean
this thing is is cartable
in a way that other handhelds just
aren't man other than maybe like what I Neo air that thing's pretty cool too but
it doesn't have this kind of performance performance like ShortCircuit what a
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