Witcher 3 on THIS?!? - OneXPlayer Mini
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,039 words · ~10 min read
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- How am I even supposed to know what I'm doing?
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I just quit the game! Okay. This one I'm really excited about.
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The original OneXPlayer Handheld Gaming PC came out of absolutely nowhere
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as a heavyweight contender against more established players,
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like AYA, and probably more importantly, GPD.
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But one of my issues with it was that while the specs were really good,
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Intel processor, XC graphics, I actually found the size of it
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to be a little on the bulky side.
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Well, now they're back, with the OneXPlayer mini that immediately is a huge ergonomic improvement.
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Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry. Let's get focused.
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So we got our USB type C charging cable, presumably this is a USB type C wall wart.
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Yup. Holy bananas! 20 volts 5 amps?
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This is 100 watt charger? Fricking 100 Watts in the palm of your hand.
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It is, it's gallium nitride, I kind of figured it would have to be
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at this kind of power density. Oh the contours are nice.
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Now, it doesn't have the same kind of low profile that you get out of something like the AYANEO,
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you can see it's substantially thicker, but the screen size is the same,
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the actual width is only marginally greater.
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So you can see that it's just a touch wider.
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The height is nearly identical. It's a lot thicker, but in a meaningful way,
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like see this? One of the issues with the AYANEO is that you have to kind of like claw grip it, right?
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The team over at OneXPlayer figured, okay, well let's just mold those,
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so they fit the hand really nicely. I actually, I think they've done a great job of the ergonomics here.
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It looks like we've got an intake at the back, vent on the top, just like on the AYANEO.
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And in terms of IO, they're quite competitive, it looks like they're gonna come out ahead
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of the Steam Deck. So we've got USB type C on the bottom, along with what looked like guides for a dock,
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though there's no dock included with our particular unit, another USB type C on the top.
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This is great because unlike the Steam Deck, that means you'll be able to charge the device
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either from the bottom or the top, depending on what works better for you. It's got a USB type A,
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it's really nice to be able to just plug in a keyboard real quick, type something.
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Analog triggers, this was one of the major advantages
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for the OneXPlayer original versus the AYANEO.
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Now, AYA has since upgraded with analog triggers.
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So the 2021 pro version has that. But if you're into a longer travel
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the OneXPlayer mini looks like they're out ahead there. Joysticks, feel pretty good, not super low profile.
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I think they've done a pretty solid job with the D-Pad, nice short travel, very responsive feeling.
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And the A, B, X, Y's, actually same thing. By the way, if you're wondering
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where I got this sweet hoodie, lttstore.com obviously.
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It's a terry cloth inside, which has the added benefit
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of being really great for wiping screens (chuckles). Keyboard button,
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Oh see? It's the same thing on the AYANEO, where it brings up the crappy keyboards.
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So this is the better one, you wanna bring up this one.
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Wow, it's my eye or the OneXPlayer mini is actually a little bit brighter?
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This might actually be more important to me. How dim can it go?
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It looks like both of them are at a very similar level here.
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Okay. Now we're getting into one of the other big differences between the OneXPlayer mini and the competition.
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Instead of going with a 1280x800 display, they've gone with 1920x1200,
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so you get that nice taller aspect ratio, and you get the additional sharpness of a full HD display.
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It looks like there's a like a back to desktop button, I like that, I like that a lot.
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- [Jono] Are you going to install Forza? - It's on here.
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Oh, like crashes? - [Jono] Yeah. - I mean, I feel like we should give it a chance
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if it's sitting here optimizing, right? Let's get some other games here.
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A big one for me for evaluating controllers is "Super Meat Boy."
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It gets a little loud, not as loud as the NEO when it's at peak loud boy,
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they're both pretty loud (chuckles). It's really cool having this kind of performance
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in your hands though. Like, do you guys see that? Don't take that for granted.
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Switching back to the Windows desktop, firing up "Forza Horizon 5".
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Now then "Super Meat Boy". Guys, this is a full fledged fricking PC in my pocket here.
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I guess now's a good time to talk about the actual specs of this thing. So it's running a Core i7-1195G7.
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So we can expect turbo speeds as high as five gigahertz, 16 gigs of RAM, probably 4266 Megahertz?
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Yup. It's got a one terabyte SSD,
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AX201 Wi-Fi, so what does that? Is that 6E?
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I believe so. Man, I have not played this game in a while,
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but what I'm supposed to be doing is evaluating the controller.
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And I really like it so far. I'm gonna try the D-pad as well actually.
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Positioning the D-pad? Not great. The benefit of those ergonomic humps
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is that it's a lot more comfortable, but really only if your palm is actually on them
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and on the D-pad it's not really. How do I feel about that on the NEO?
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Honestly, on the NEO I don't find it as bad because you're mostly supported here.
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Although I do find this corner gets kind of sharp, especially due to the weight.
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So that's a factor to consider. This is only 50% done.
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NEO was done. Can you look up if there's any way to skip the "Horizon 5"
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intro cinematic Jono? You have to edit the game files.
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Did the OneXPlayer just crash? 80%,
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at 80%. The game's just gone. Ah.
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And the warranty voided.
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Oh, interesting. No, OneXPlayer, not glue.
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It's more like double-sided tape, but still.
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Well, here's the inside. We're looking at a 40.25 watt hour battery,
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so that's a little less about 10% less than the AYANEO.
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Got our CPU cooler. Oh no.
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Oh guys, why? So what I had in mind was I wanted to take a drive
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that had already been through that optimization process and see if it would just run the game if we could skip it.
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But I don't think that's gonna be easy to do here. I think we just have to say,
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"Okay, Intel has some driver issues to get sorted out
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with XC graphics still. What a shame. Nice robust looking mechanisms for the shoulder,
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as well as the trigger buttons though. By comparison, the shoulders on the AYANEO
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are not as durable. You can see they really could have made
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the unit substantially thinner, if they didn't wanna have these nice big grips.
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Um (chuckles). All right, let's get our volume rocker back on there.
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And this volumes are rocking.
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Well, that went back together nicely. Hopefully it still works. That's one nice thing about having Radeon graphics, man.
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Boy, are they ever better than Intel's onboard drivers. You know, I think I was wrong before,
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the 1080p class display is noticeable, it it's sharper.
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Where the heck is my dongle? Now this is cool. This is a benefit of any more open style device.
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Like the AYANEO, like the Steam Deck, like the OneXPlayer mini,
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being able to just take a standard type C connector,
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of which it has two, plug in a dock or a dongle.
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Boom! HTMI out, Ethernet, USB three, SD card reader.
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And I'm just gonna turn the Wi-Fi off because otherwise Windows just gets too stupid.
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And there you go. Now it goes up.
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I have an extra screw. Crap. Oh no, no, no, it's all good.
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I didn't actually do up the rear screws. All right, now we got some games running on here
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and this looks like absolute butt. It's so blurry and crappy!
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I've seen this before, and I don't know if it's to do with the fact
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that most of these are using vertical displays
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that are turned horizontally, which they are, cause these are typically tablet displays,
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these seven inch displays. But watch this. If I switched to borderless.
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Boom! It's sharp, fixed. Like borderless full screen.
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Why? Why you do this? Well, I guess we're gonna have to run it native res then.
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- [Jono] Oh no. - And this is what I'm talking about.
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(people grumbling) Yeah, if I'm not near any other vehicles.
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Okay. That's settled in a little bit. So I'm getting about 65 FPS, dang!
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Not bad! Looks great! Boy, is that that ever sharp?
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Okay. So, the 1920x1200 screen, not a problem so far,
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let's try something else. I want some "Doom Eternals" boys. No Intel drivers, not supported.
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Let's give it a chance. The only reason I'm even trying this again
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is because I heard that the issue has been resolved. Here we go.
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Really? This'll be our head to head against the NEO 2021 pro,
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cause I've got "Witcher 3" running right over here. That's another really cool use case
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for these kinds of devices, you've got your emulation, you've got your running casual games
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directly on the devices themselves. And then of course, streaming from a nearby gaming PC over Wi-Fi.
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Super cool experience. Okay, why is borderless window like out here?
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Intel has got some scaling issues to figure out
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in their driver here, cause that basically means we're stuck running it at native res.
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This is worse! (people laughing)
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How am I even supposed to know what I'm doing? I just quit the game!
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So what do I need to set it to then? Okay, cool, now we can get it running apples to apples here.
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So assuming the game will run things. Okay, okay, we had a little bit of a hitch
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coming into it there, but that's looking a little more promising.
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Driver issues, like the display scaling thing need to be sorted.
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Okay, we got a little hitch there, so you can see very, very similar kind of smoothness,
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both absolutely playable. For cost reasons, the Steam Deck
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is gonna come out ahead of either of these, but the big difference is that Steam Deck ain't shipping.
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These are in my hands right now. So guys, if you wanna check out the OneXPlayer mini,
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we're gonna have it linked down below. Super cool device.
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Of course, a great middle ground for ergonomics is the Switch OLED,
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which has the same size screen, skinnier than the AYANEO, even at its thickest.
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Banana for scale too. You should get it on the lttstore.com, ShortCircuit banana.
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Get subscribed to ShortCircuit. I think that's it. That's all!
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