WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.880 this tiny gaming PC is absolutely wild 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:11.519 it's got a built-in controller it's playing Doom Eternal at HD resolution 00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:14.099 medium details anywhere from 65 to 80 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:19.199 frames per second and not only that but it's so powerful that I can actually 00:00:16.080 --> 00:00:21.240 stream to Twitch TV without a separate 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:28.500 streaming box it's got 8 cores 16 threads onboard Rd and A2 graphics and 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:30.119 not one but two m.2 storage slots we're 00:00:28.500 --> 00:00:36.480 gonna have to crack this baby open and see what makes it tick what's this 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:39.120 ah it's a message from our sponsor Zoho 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:43.320 CRM is a 360 degree solution that offers an intuitive UI AI predictions and a 00:00:41.700 --> 00:00:50.480 design studio to help you get your sales done faster get 50 off with code zcrm50 00:00:46.980 --> 00:00:50.480 using the link down below 00:00:57.260 --> 00:01:02.399 meet the GPD winmax 2. it's what you 00:01:00.420 --> 00:01:07.200 would get if an Alienware gaming laptop and the netbook had a baby everything 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 00:01:09.960 --> 00:01:16.200 hands on this starting with the screen it's touch screen with stylus support 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 00:01:19.020 --> 00:01:27.060 ratio and a native resolution of 2560 by 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:30.180 1600 that is 299 pixels per inch making 00:01:27.060 --> 00:01:33.540 it shockingly sharp and the best part 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:36.000 since this is basically a mini laptop is 00:01:33.540 --> 00:01:40.740 that unlike other handhelds the screen is actually a natively landscape display 00:01:38.759 --> 00:01:43.799 rather than a portrait one that is constantly running 90 degrees out of 00:01:42.479 --> 00:01:48.000 sync we've actually got another video coming out about the Aya Neo air and one 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:52.259 of the problems we run into is when trying to emulate games since the screen 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:56.159 is Portrait you you need some fixes to get older or poorly coded games to 00:01:54.360 --> 00:02:00.720 display properly speaking of games the high resolution should also help make 00:01:58.020 --> 00:02:04.860 lower resolutions not as interpolated and crappy looking since we've got so 00:02:03.180 --> 00:02:10.319 many pixels crammed into a small display like this playing at 720p or 800p isn't 00:02:08.580 --> 00:02:13.980 going to be a stretchy mess where the software and the display fight over 00:02:11.700 --> 00:02:17.400 which pixels should go where integer scaling should also behave more 00:02:15.420 --> 00:02:23.940 appropriately since the screen is simply double an 800p image let's talk I O over 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 00:02:26.940 --> 00:02:35.160 fingerprint sensor do like to see that on the left this is cool the GPD winmax 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:40.319 2 stands Head and Shoulders Above the Rest when it comes to storage expansion 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:44.760 steam deck micro SD with a single 2230 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:46.560 SSD aneo next 2280 SSD and I don't 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 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:55.080 double-sided one and micro SD here we 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 00:02:58.200 --> 00:03:06.360 can put two terabytes there and an additional 2230 SSD slot Gen 4 in case 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:10.800 you want you know maximum performance that is easily accessible at the back 00:03:08.340 --> 00:03:15.300 with just one screw you could conceivably load this thing up with like 00:03:13.140 --> 00:03:21.120 eight terabytes of storage without buying any wild exotic you know eight 00:03:18.480 --> 00:03:24.480 terabyte double-sided ssds and that ignores that we could use 00:03:22.620 --> 00:03:30.780 external external bridge at the back alongside our headset Jack and HDMI 2.1 00:03:27.540 --> 00:03:34.319 Port we have another USB type a and a 00:03:30.780 --> 00:03:35.879 USB 3 Type C along with a USB 4 type c 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:40.440 which means that we could actually hook this bad boy potential theoretically up 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:45.060 to a Thunderbolt enclosure or Thunderbolt storage or even an external 00:03:43.019 --> 00:03:49.260 GPU not that we thought of that before and we're definitely going to try that 00:03:47.340 --> 00:03:52.920 after speaking of games you might think that that high resolution means that 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:57.900 you're going to have a pretty crummy low FPS experience but that's not actually 00:03:55.440 --> 00:04:03.239 the case because we've got so many pixels crammed into such a small area we 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:07.799 can run this display at non-native resolutions without nearly the same kind 00:04:05.640 --> 00:04:13.260 of awful interpolation that we might have expected from older LCDs also 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:18.359 because this resolution is a multiple of 800p which is the resolution that the 00:04:15.780 --> 00:04:23.400 steam deck and other handhelds use you can actually use integer scaling to get 00:04:20.579 --> 00:04:27.780 no interpolation whatsoever it just takes 1 whatever value was supposed to 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 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:38.520 because of the way that GPD optimized the spacing between the keys on the 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:40.979 keyboard it is shockingly usable in 00:04:38.520 --> 00:04:46.500 spite of its tiny size so this isn't just a portable gaming machine it's 00:04:43.500 --> 00:04:48.600 actually a usable laptop the touchscreen 00:04:46.500 --> 00:04:53.100 being up on the top of the keyboard yeah it's not the most amazing experience 00:04:50.580 --> 00:04:58.800 ergonomically but quite frankly I very rarely found myself using it anyway 00:04:54.960 --> 00:05:01.259 because ah yes making a return is gpd's 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:06.560 classic little switch that takes our integrated Gamepad and switches it over 00:05:03.300 --> 00:05:09.840 from Gamepad mode to 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:12.000 Mouse mode is that awesome or what okay 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 00:05:14.520 --> 00:05:20.280 one of the best implementations of joy to mouse that I have yet used the 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 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 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 00:05:31.320 --> 00:05:38.160 integrated Gamepad but especially when you factor in the benefit of the screen 00:05:35.580 --> 00:05:43.080 size it is shockingly usable for scale here's a steam deck yes this is a 00:05:40.919 --> 00:05:48.479 substantially larger device but this is also a substantially larger screen and 00:05:46.259 --> 00:05:53.280 while it might not be the best Gamepad in the world it's 00:05:50.060 --> 00:05:54.960 surprisingly not bad holding on to it 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 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 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:06.720 joysticks while they're a recessed style joystick like you might find on a mobile 00:06:04.860 --> 00:06:10.199 console they're actually hall effect joysticks meaning that you're concerned 00:06:08.520 --> 00:06:13.860 about them wearing out should be much lower than a potentiometer-based 00:06:11.880 --> 00:06:20.160 joystick like you would find on an Xbox or a PlayStation controller 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:22.440 I really like the d-pad really clicky 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:26.880 that is one of the best d-pads I think I felt in quite some time 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 00:06:31.139 --> 00:06:37.979 for the joysticks if you prefer not to look at them 00:06:36.060 --> 00:06:41.039 um they sit like that and when you're not using them they go back here 00:06:39.300 --> 00:06:46.819 personally I think that's the kind of thing that I would probably leave tucked 00:06:42.660 --> 00:06:46.819 away 100 of the time but 00:06:47.580 --> 00:06:53.580 why productivity it looks like a laptop 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 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:02.220 be carrying around a gaming device so that really raises the question what 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:07.380 kinds of other fun goodies are we gonna find inside this thing man this is a 00:07:04.919 --> 00:07:13.940 really cool device GPD just makes such cool stuff man and these screws are not 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 00:07:17.340 --> 00:07:24.120 our one terabyte SSD complete with dram cache then we've got our heatsink fan 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:28.740 assembly here that is actually larger than I would expect to find in a PC like 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 00:07:31.259 --> 00:07:37.860 heatsink fins are quite short but they actually get a lot taller towards the 00:07:35.699 --> 00:07:42.539 back which probably contributes to how quiet this thing is even while gaming so 00:07:39.960 --> 00:07:49.800 under that we've got the 8 core 16 thread as I mentioned before AMD ryzen 00:07:45.500 --> 00:07:51.900 6800u APU that is how we are getting the 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:55.259 absolutely wild performance we're seeing out of this machine also it contributes 00:07:53.759 --> 00:08:00.539 to the excellent battery life you can expect from the win Max 2. GPD specs a 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 00:08:03.539 --> 00:08:09.539 hour battery they say to expect three hours of heavy use six to eight hours of 00:08:08.039 --> 00:08:13.680 moderate use which is where most people will likely Fall and 14 hours of light 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:17.520 use depending on the specific applications there's not really much 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 00:08:19.979 --> 00:08:24.360 user repairable memory is soldered of 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 00:08:28.379 --> 00:08:34.560 playing AAA games like Halo infinite though it's certainly nice to have the 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 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:45.660 but darn it it's running I got him 00:08:42.659 --> 00:08:47.880 oh hey look at that gotta talk about the 00:08:45.660 --> 00:08:52.260 merch we just launched the RGB hoodie it's comfortable stretchy and it has 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:56.220 these little colorful bits woven into it for a fun little splash of color without 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 00:08:59.640 --> 00:09:05.339 didn't mention these before but they're actually Z3 buttons on the bottom so you 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:09.180 can bind additional functions to those if shoulders and triggers aren't enough 00:09:07.500 --> 00:09:15.660 for you and the triggers themselves analog triggers so racing aficionados 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:20.399 rejoice one thing I will say though is the 00:09:17.459 --> 00:09:23.640 haptics are not great the whole device vibrates it actually kind of reminds me 00:09:22.140 --> 00:09:28.920 of the way that valve did it on the steam deck can you hear that 00:09:26.760 --> 00:09:32.459 the speakers though probably the best praise that I can give them is that I 00:09:30.779 --> 00:09:37.019 didn't notice them being you know little crappy laptop speakers they've got two 00:09:34.500 --> 00:09:40.440 on the sides two on the front and they actually get reasonably loud and are 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 00:09:41.760 --> 00:09:47.040 the vibrating haptic Motors 00:09:44.940 --> 00:09:50.100 for some really good tips on optimizing your performance and battery life I'd 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:53.760 actually recommend checking out the fox's Channel he has put this thing 00:09:51.839 --> 00:09:58.680 absolutely through the ringer and found that while the steam deck crushes it for 00:09:56.220 --> 00:10:02.820 performance at much lower tdps in the eight to nine watt range once you get 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 00:10:05.459 --> 00:10:13.260 dust and you can eke out a bit more performance going up to its maximum of 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:15.420 28 Watts however one of my kind of 00:10:13.260 --> 00:10:19.500 bummers with the win Max 2 is that in order to change those performance 00:10:16.740 --> 00:10:24.300 profiles you have to reboot go into the BIOS tune them and then boot up into 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:28.200 Windows for comparison Aya one of their competitors has this 00:10:26.160 --> 00:10:32.820 cool little overlay that you can adjust your fan and performance profiles 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 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 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:43.980 external RTX 3080 and see what kind of 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:49.680 performance we can pull off this is exciting you required a reboot for some 00:10:46.620 --> 00:10:52.560 reason but it looks like our RTX 3080 00:10:49.680 --> 00:10:57.360 GPU is showing up 00:10:54.420 --> 00:11:00.959 is this Thunderbolt on AMD well yeah okay it's not technically Thunderbolt 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 00:11:03.959 --> 00:11:11.040 all right then well you know like what I call Things by the slightly wrong name 00:11:07.920 --> 00:11:12.420 are you correct me so yeah if you call 00:11:11.040 --> 00:11:17.880 it Thunderbolt I'm gonna tell you it's you as before because now with our 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:21.480 external GPU I am fully expecting to be able to run this display at Native 00:11:19.980 --> 00:11:25.260 resolution initially I wasn't that impressed by the 00:11:23.579 --> 00:11:31.860 performance we're getting anywhere from 65 to 75 frames per second which to be 00:11:28.620 --> 00:11:33.899 clear is fine for our 60hz display but I 00:11:31.860 --> 00:11:38.640 kind of expected more that is until I dropped into the settings menu here and 00:11:35.640 --> 00:11:40.560 realized that oops once I realized I 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:43.980 have a 38 in here it defaulted me to ultra nightmare 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:48.480 totally unnecessary to have everything cranked like that on such a tiny display 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 00:11:51.660 --> 00:11:56.640 Wild this is loud fan mode I mean 00:11:54.959 --> 00:12:00.540 compared to the steam deck I was already really impressed by how quiet it was it 00:11:58.740 --> 00:12:03.620 has a silent mode hold on here we go function shift 00:12:04.560 --> 00:12:11.760 around 85 Degrees yeah that's fine 00:12:08.899 --> 00:12:15.540 yeah no kidding remember we're not using the onboard GPU right now though so 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 00:12:17.760 --> 00:12:23.940 for everyone we ran into some weird issues with delays in the touchpad input 00:12:21.839 --> 00:12:28.019 that seemed to be caused by algorithmic Palm rejection and unlike last 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:33.540 generation model it no longer has an RJ45 Network Port which was a bit of a 00:12:30.420 --> 00:12:35.579 bummer to me but what it is is utterly 00:12:33.540 --> 00:12:39.240 unique it's not going to compete with the gaming focused design of something 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 00:12:41.579 --> 00:12:49.200 much any other dedicated laptop at this price point but if what you want is the 00:12:47.579 --> 00:12:52.740 one device that does it all there's nothing else that does it quite like 00:12:50.940 --> 00:12:57.240 this there are people out there that are using their steam decks as their only 00:12:54.959 --> 00:13:00.060 computer and power to you but for most people that's going to be pretty 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 00:13:01.980 --> 00:13:07.560 there that use their laptop keyboard and trackpad pretty sparingly but actually 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 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:15.839 have to carry a Gamepad so are there many of those people probably not but 00:13:14.339 --> 00:13:19.260 there are certainly enough for GPD to keep existing and keep pumping out these 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:25.139 devices and I'm glad because this thing is super cool just like our sponsor 00:13:21.959 --> 00:13:26.639 Ubisoft and Rocksmith Rocksmith plus is 00:13:25.139 --> 00:13:30.060 an interactive tool for learning guitar that gamifies the process to make 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:34.800 studying how to play music much more accessible with over 5000 different tracks to 00:13:33.240 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