1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,880 this tiny gaming PC is absolutely wild 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:11,519 it's got a built-in controller it's playing Doom Eternal at HD resolution 3 00:00:08,040 --> 00:00:14,099 medium details anywhere from 65 to 80 4 00:00:11,519 --> 00:00:19,199 frames per second and not only that but it's so powerful that I can actually 5 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:21,240 stream to Twitch TV without a separate 6 00:00:19,199 --> 00:00:28,500 streaming box it's got 8 cores 16 threads onboard Rd and A2 graphics and 7 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:30,119 not one but two m.2 storage slots we're 8 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:36,480 gonna have to crack this baby open and see what makes it tick what's this 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:39,120 ah it's a message from our sponsor Zoho 10 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:43,320 CRM is a 360 degree solution that offers an intuitive UI AI predictions and a 11 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:50,480 design studio to help you get your sales done faster get 50 off with code zcrm50 12 00:00:46,980 --> 00:00:50,480 using the link down below 13 00:00:57,260 --> 00:01:02,399 meet the GPD winmax 2. it's what you 14 00:01:00,420 --> 00:01:07,200 would get if an Alienware gaming laptop and the netbook had a baby everything 15 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:11,760 about this is better than the last gen and I have been so excited to get my 16 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:16,200 hands on this starting with the screen it's touch screen with stylus support 17 00:01:13,799 --> 00:01:22,560 for the artists out there and is just over 10 inches with a 16 by 10 aspect 18 00:01:19,020 --> 00:01:27,060 ratio and a native resolution of 2560 by 19 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:30,180 1600 that is 299 pixels per inch making 20 00:01:27,060 --> 00:01:33,540 it shockingly sharp and the best part 21 00:01:30,180 --> 00:01:36,000 since this is basically a mini laptop is 22 00:01:33,540 --> 00:01:40,740 that unlike other handhelds the screen is actually a natively landscape display 23 00:01:38,759 --> 00:01:43,799 rather than a portrait one that is constantly running 90 degrees out of 24 00:01:42,479 --> 00:01:48,000 sync we've actually got another video coming out about the Aya Neo air and one 25 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:52,259 of the problems we run into is when trying to emulate games since the screen 26 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:56,159 is Portrait you you need some fixes to get older or poorly coded games to 27 00:01:54,360 --> 00:02:00,720 display properly speaking of games the high resolution should also help make 28 00:01:58,020 --> 00:02:04,860 lower resolutions not as interpolated and crappy looking since we've got so 29 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:10,319 many pixels crammed into a small display like this playing at 720p or 800p isn't 30 00:02:08,580 --> 00:02:13,980 going to be a stretchy mess where the software and the display fight over 31 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:17,400 which pixels should go where integer scaling should also behave more 32 00:02:15,420 --> 00:02:23,940 appropriately since the screen is simply double an 800p image let's talk I O over 33 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:29,220 on the right we've got two USB 3 ports at the front power button with included 34 00:02:26,940 --> 00:02:35,160 fingerprint sensor do like to see that on the left this is cool the GPD winmax 35 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:40,319 2 stands Head and Shoulders Above the Rest when it comes to storage expansion 36 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:44,760 steam deck micro SD with a single 2230 37 00:02:40,319 --> 00:02:46,560 SSD aneo next 2280 SSD and I don't 38 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:52,620 believe it has any micro SD expansion aneo air 2280 but you won't be using a 39 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:55,080 double-sided one and micro SD here we 40 00:02:52,620 --> 00:03:00,660 get a 2280 that's your boot drive we get two SD slots full sized and micro so you 41 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:06,360 can put two terabytes there and an additional 2230 SSD slot Gen 4 in case 42 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:10,800 you want you know maximum performance that is easily accessible at the back 43 00:03:08,340 --> 00:03:15,300 with just one screw you could conceivably load this thing up with like 44 00:03:13,140 --> 00:03:21,120 eight terabytes of storage without buying any wild exotic you know eight 45 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:24,480 terabyte double-sided ssds and that ignores that we could use 46 00:03:22,620 --> 00:03:30,780 external external bridge at the back alongside our headset Jack and HDMI 2.1 47 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:34,319 Port we have another USB type a and a 48 00:03:30,780 --> 00:03:35,879 USB 3 Type C along with a USB 4 type c 49 00:03:34,319 --> 00:03:40,440 which means that we could actually hook this bad boy potential theoretically up 50 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:45,060 to a Thunderbolt enclosure or Thunderbolt storage or even an external 51 00:03:43,019 --> 00:03:49,260 GPU not that we thought of that before and we're definitely going to try that 52 00:03:47,340 --> 00:03:52,920 after speaking of games you might think that that high resolution means that 53 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,900 you're going to have a pretty crummy low FPS experience but that's not actually 54 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:03,239 the case because we've got so many pixels crammed into such a small area we 55 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:07,799 can run this display at non-native resolutions without nearly the same kind 56 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:13,260 of awful interpolation that we might have expected from older LCDs also 57 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:18,359 because this resolution is a multiple of 800p which is the resolution that the 58 00:04:15,780 --> 00:04:23,400 steam deck and other handhelds use you can actually use integer scaling to get 59 00:04:20,579 --> 00:04:27,780 no interpolation whatsoever it just takes 1 whatever value was supposed to 60 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:33,120 be for one pixel and makes it a two by two grid nice and clean check this out 61 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:38,520 because of the way that GPD optimized the spacing between the keys on the 62 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:40,979 keyboard it is shockingly usable in 63 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:46,500 spite of its tiny size so this isn't just a portable gaming machine it's 64 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:48,600 actually a usable laptop the touchscreen 65 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:53,100 being up on the top of the keyboard yeah it's not the most amazing experience 66 00:04:50,580 --> 00:04:58,800 ergonomically but quite frankly I very rarely found myself using it anyway 67 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:01,259 because ah yes making a return is gpd's 68 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:06,560 classic little switch that takes our integrated Gamepad and switches it over 69 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:09,840 from Gamepad mode to 70 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:12,000 Mouse mode is that awesome or what okay 71 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:17,040 it's a little slow and it can be a little bit clunky but it was and remains 72 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:20,280 one of the best implementations of joy to mouse that I have yet used the 73 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:24,960 shoulder buttons handle your left and your right click and as soon as you're done you flip it back over into Gamepad 74 00:05:23,580 --> 00:05:29,340 mode and you're ready to start playing now I'm not gonna lie it's a little on 75 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:33,600 the heavy side at just over a kilogram and it doesn't have the world's greatest 76 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:38,160 integrated Gamepad but especially when you factor in the benefit of the screen 77 00:05:35,580 --> 00:05:43,080 size it is shockingly usable for scale here's a steam deck yes this is a 78 00:05:40,919 --> 00:05:48,479 substantially larger device but this is also a substantially larger screen and 79 00:05:46,259 --> 00:05:53,280 while it might not be the best Gamepad in the world it's 80 00:05:50,060 --> 00:05:54,960 surprisingly not bad holding on to it 81 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:59,400 like this you've got a little bit of grip on the back of the device and it 82 00:05:56,940 --> 00:06:03,240 manages to not get too hot in the areas that you need to touch it and these 83 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:06,720 joysticks while they're a recessed style joystick like you might find on a mobile 84 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:10,199 console they're actually hall effect joysticks meaning that you're concerned 85 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,860 about them wearing out should be much lower than a potentiometer-based 86 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:20,160 joystick like you would find on an Xbox or a PlayStation controller 87 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:22,440 I really like the d-pad really clicky 88 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:26,880 that is one of the best d-pads I think I felt in quite some time 89 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:33,900 that's a yeah it's very easy to ask it's really nice there are integrated covers 90 00:06:31,139 --> 00:06:37,979 for the joysticks if you prefer not to look at them 91 00:06:36,060 --> 00:06:41,039 um they sit like that and when you're not using them they go back here 92 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:46,819 personally I think that's the kind of thing that I would probably leave tucked 93 00:06:42,660 --> 00:06:46,819 away 100 of the time but 94 00:06:47,580 --> 00:06:53,580 why productivity it looks like a laptop 95 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:58,560 makes it look more professional ah yes well sure at my job it's no problem to 96 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,220 be carrying around a gaming device so that really raises the question what 97 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:07,380 kinds of other fun goodies are we gonna find inside this thing man this is a 98 00:07:04,919 --> 00:07:13,940 really cool device GPD just makes such cool stuff man and these screws are not 99 00:07:11,639 --> 00:07:20,099 all the same well that's good to know ours is a kitted out model okay there's 100 00:07:17,340 --> 00:07:24,120 our one terabyte SSD complete with dram cache then we've got our heatsink fan 101 00:07:22,319 --> 00:07:28,740 assembly here that is actually larger than I would expect to find in a PC like 102 00:07:26,039 --> 00:07:34,020 this we've got two heat pipes and then you can see here it looks like the 103 00:07:31,259 --> 00:07:37,860 heatsink fins are quite short but they actually get a lot taller towards the 104 00:07:35,699 --> 00:07:42,539 back which probably contributes to how quiet this thing is even while gaming so 105 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:49,800 under that we've got the 8 core 16 thread as I mentioned before AMD ryzen 106 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:51,900 6800u APU that is how we are getting the 107 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:55,259 absolutely wild performance we're seeing out of this machine also it contributes 108 00:07:53,759 --> 00:08:00,539 to the excellent battery life you can expect from the win Max 2. GPD specs a 109 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:05,460 67 watt hour battery but opening it up we can see clearly this is a 72 watt 110 00:08:03,539 --> 00:08:09,539 hour battery they say to expect three hours of heavy use six to eight hours of 111 00:08:08,039 --> 00:08:13,680 moderate use which is where most people will likely Fall and 14 hours of light 112 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:17,520 use depending on the specific applications there's not really much 113 00:08:15,539 --> 00:08:23,160 else for us to see in here we've got our hall effect joysticks which look very 114 00:08:19,979 --> 00:08:24,360 user repairable memory is soldered of 115 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:30,360 course if you want to get battery life anywhere near that you're not going to be able to have it sucking back 30 watts 116 00:08:28,379 --> 00:08:34,560 playing AAA games like Halo infinite though it's certainly nice to have the 117 00:08:32,459 --> 00:08:42,659 option I mean look how smoothly this is running it's at 1280 by 800 low details 118 00:08:38,399 --> 00:08:45,660 but darn it it's running I got him 119 00:08:42,659 --> 00:08:47,880 oh hey look at that gotta talk about the 120 00:08:45,660 --> 00:08:52,260 merch we just launched the RGB hoodie it's comfortable stretchy and it has 121 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:56,220 these little colorful bits woven into it for a fun little splash of color without 122 00:08:54,060 --> 00:09:01,019 being you know too fun you know it's gray right oh on the subject of fun I 123 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:05,339 didn't mention these before but they're actually Z3 buttons on the bottom so you 124 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:09,180 can bind additional functions to those if shoulders and triggers aren't enough 125 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:15,660 for you and the triggers themselves analog triggers so racing aficionados 126 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:20,399 rejoice one thing I will say though is the 127 00:09:17,459 --> 00:09:23,640 haptics are not great the whole device vibrates it actually kind of reminds me 128 00:09:22,140 --> 00:09:28,920 of the way that valve did it on the steam deck can you hear that 129 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:32,459 the speakers though probably the best praise that I can give them is that I 130 00:09:30,779 --> 00:09:37,019 didn't notice them being you know little crappy laptop speakers they've got two 131 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:40,440 on the sides two on the front and they actually get reasonably loud and are 132 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:44,940 pretty clear let's crank them up here we go maybe then I won't have to listen to 133 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:47,040 the vibrating haptic Motors 134 00:09:44,940 --> 00:09:50,100 for some really good tips on optimizing your performance and battery life I'd 135 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,760 actually recommend checking out the fox's Channel he has put this thing 136 00:09:51,839 --> 00:09:58,680 absolutely through the ringer and found that while the steam deck crushes it for 137 00:09:56,220 --> 00:10:02,820 performance at much lower tdps in the eight to nine watt range once you get 138 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:07,620 into the 15 watt range the steam decks Max TDP the win Max 2 leaves it in the 139 00:10:05,459 --> 00:10:13,260 dust and you can eke out a bit more performance going up to its maximum of 140 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:15,420 28 Watts however one of my kind of 141 00:10:13,260 --> 00:10:19,500 bummers with the win Max 2 is that in order to change those performance 142 00:10:16,740 --> 00:10:24,300 profiles you have to reboot go into the BIOS tune them and then boot up into 143 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:28,200 Windows for comparison Aya one of their competitors has this 144 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:32,820 cool little overlay that you can adjust your fan and performance profiles 145 00:10:30,420 --> 00:10:37,200 through on the fly but enough about that let's pivot to what I think is one of 146 00:10:34,740 --> 00:10:42,240 the coolest use cases for a device like this I'm going to connect it to an 147 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,980 external RTX 3080 and see what kind of 148 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:49,680 performance we can pull off this is exciting you required a reboot for some 149 00:10:46,620 --> 00:10:52,560 reason but it looks like our RTX 3080 150 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:57,360 GPU is showing up 151 00:10:54,420 --> 00:11:00,959 is this Thunderbolt on AMD well yeah okay it's not technically Thunderbolt 152 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:06,180 but it's functionally the same is it 40 gigabit per second can I run a GPU yes 153 00:11:03,959 --> 00:11:11,040 all right then well you know like what I call Things by the slightly wrong name 154 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:12,420 are you correct me so yeah if you call 155 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:17,880 it Thunderbolt I'm gonna tell you it's you as before because now with our 156 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:21,480 external GPU I am fully expecting to be able to run this display at Native 157 00:11:19,980 --> 00:11:25,260 resolution initially I wasn't that impressed by the 158 00:11:23,579 --> 00:11:31,860 performance we're getting anywhere from 65 to 75 frames per second which to be 159 00:11:28,620 --> 00:11:33,899 clear is fine for our 60hz display but I 160 00:11:31,860 --> 00:11:38,640 kind of expected more that is until I dropped into the settings menu here and 161 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:40,560 realized that oops once I realized I 162 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:43,980 have a 38 in here it defaulted me to ultra nightmare 163 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:48,480 totally unnecessary to have everything cranked like that on such a tiny display 164 00:11:45,779 --> 00:11:54,959 but hey at least we know that we can do it freaking cool oh wow you know what's 165 00:11:51,660 --> 00:11:56,640 Wild this is loud fan mode I mean 166 00:11:54,959 --> 00:12:00,540 compared to the steam deck I was already really impressed by how quiet it was it 167 00:11:58,740 --> 00:12:03,620 has a silent mode hold on here we go function shift 168 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:11,760 around 85 Degrees yeah that's fine 169 00:12:08,899 --> 00:12:15,540 yeah no kidding remember we're not using the onboard GPU right now though so 170 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:19,440 that's an advantage don't get me wrong this thing is not perfect and it's not 171 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:23,940 for everyone we ran into some weird issues with delays in the touchpad input 172 00:12:21,839 --> 00:12:28,019 that seemed to be caused by algorithmic Palm rejection and unlike last 173 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:33,540 generation model it no longer has an RJ45 Network Port which was a bit of a 174 00:12:30,420 --> 00:12:35,579 bummer to me but what it is is utterly 175 00:12:33,540 --> 00:12:39,240 unique it's not going to compete with the gaming focused design of something 176 00:12:37,260 --> 00:12:44,399 like a steam deck or an eye Neo and frankly it's a worse laptop than pretty 177 00:12:41,579 --> 00:12:49,200 much any other dedicated laptop at this price point but if what you want is the 178 00:12:47,579 --> 00:12:52,740 one device that does it all there's nothing else that does it quite like 179 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:57,240 this there are people out there that are using their steam decks as their only 180 00:12:54,959 --> 00:13:00,060 computer and power to you but for most people that's going to be pretty 181 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,779 frustrating when you're on the go and in the same way there's a lot of folks out 182 00:13:01,980 --> 00:13:07,560 there that use their laptop keyboard and trackpad pretty sparingly but actually 183 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:12,180 do a fair bit of gaming well guess what let's not something like this you don't 184 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:15,839 have to carry a Gamepad so are there many of those people probably not but 185 00:13:14,339 --> 00:13:19,260 there are certainly enough for GPD to keep existing and keep pumping out these 186 00:13:17,399 --> 00:13:25,139 devices and I'm glad because this thing is super cool just like 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