 I'm struggling a lot with this video. Why are we making it? Who could possibly care? And why does this product exist? This is the GPD Win. It is a Windows based one of those translators that all the Korean kids in class use to cheat on their spelling tests. In theory, it's a gaming device. It has a gamepad built in, but it runs an Intel Cherry Trail processor with onboard graphics, meaning is it capable of gaming? Well, there's really only one way to find out. By watching this video. Also, you could just read discussion about it on Reddit, but you're here at this video now. You might as well keep going. G Fuel is the sugar-free alternative energy beverage to maintain focus and endurance over long days and gaming sessions. Save some money using code Linus at the link in the video description. So let's start with what the heck is this thing? Inside the box you get, oh, that's my Windows 10 key. Don't worry too much about that, but you get the GPD Win. You get some rip-off Apple EarPods. Go ahead and take a look at those while I open up the other crap that's in here. You get a USB type-C cable. There you go. Looks a little something like that. You get a USB charger. It's a two and a half amp. Fun fact, this thing will lose charge during heavy use, and by heavy use I mean downloading games in Steam. It will lose charge on a two amp device, so you're gonna want to use that puppy if you want to game for, you know, more than a few hours at a time on it, and you get these instructions, most of which are in English. But not all. On the other side they are. Okay, so let's have a look at what we're dealing with here. We've got air exhaust, we've got intake. Apparently they're both intakes, which is actually not how that works, but sure GPD. We've got a fan switch off low and high. I'd recommend high. It's really not that loud. It's right up to my mic. Not that bad. You've got a couple of speaker ports here, and then not a whole lot else going on around the bottom, except, oh look at that! More IO than the MacBook! How shocking! So we've got a type-C connector. That's for charging. We've got a mini HDMI. We've got a micro SD slot. See that wasn't so hard. Look how thin that is, Apple. Look how thin that is. Is that that hard to put on your device? Yeah, I thought so. All right. We've got a type-A connector, so that's USB 3 going by the color and a headset jack. So that's your microphone, headphone, combo jack. Also, yes my friends, L1, R1, L2, and L1 buttons because this is a freaking gaming device, sort of, I guess. Let's go ahead and, oh no no, how do I jump over him? I don't remember anymore. Oh, there we go. That's right. That's how Batman jumps. Look at that. I am running Batman Arkham Asylum at 39 frames per second, and we're dipped down to 34, in a fight scene. Sometimes it goes all the way down to a cinematic 24, but really it's not that bad. So let's have a look at what they've got over here. They've got a D-pad. They've got a couple of joysticks. They've got an ABXY. Check that out. Emulation much. They've also got PlayStation logos on the buttons there, so you don't get confused when you're playing. Oh, I don't know. Say for example, Final Fantasy 7, and you're trying to play on like a PC controller, and it's all like, oh, okay, march along with the other guys in the band. Press X plus triangle. I'm like, which one's X? I've never played on a PlayStation in my life. What else we got here? Full keyboard, as well as some auxiliary buttons here. Including start. See, I paused before you hit me right there. Start, select, print screen. L3, R3, volume up and volume down. Dedicated button for that. Definitely thumbs up there. An Xbox button and power. But what are the capabilities like? Well, I mean, I guess I just showed you, but it does more. Hold on. So that's a surprisingly good gaming experience. I mean, sure, it's an older AAA title, but the fact that it runs at all on something this size is pretty darn impressive. And even more so, it's got a 6700 milliamp hour battery, which resulted in about 20% of it being lost in the time that we were playing the game. Not too bad. And not every game is going to be as intensive as, you know, something like Batman Arkham Asylum. So let's say you wanted to fire up the old emulator. I'm actually pretty impressed again. Orlando doesn't need healing anyway, because he's like a badass, but whatever. Check this out. Final Fantasy Tactics running on EPS XC, anywhere from 30 to 60 FPS, somewhere in that range, which is frankly good enough for this kind of experience. That's right. Auto-potion, bitches. You just did like 18 damage. So gaming-wise, I'm actually pretty darn impressed so far. It's got 64 gigs of eMMC storage, 4 gigs of RAM, meaning you've got a pretty decent spec computer in your hands. So then, of course, you know, the next step for me is what about not gaming? This is actually where it stood out to me even more, because you've got your D and X input modes for the gamepad, then you've got this mouse mode in the middle that's actually surprisingly intuitive to use. So the right stick becomes a mouse, and remember, you've also got a touchscreen, so you're not like limited to just waiting for this to move around as you, you know, browse forums or whatever else the case may be. Left and right click are handled by the shoulder buttons back there. And this left one here is now a scroll. It is shockingly intuitive to use and actually very pleasant as long as you can, you know, have decent vision, because text is not very big, and given this is a 5.5-inch 720p screen, as soon as you try to scale anything within Windows, you're going to end up with a lot of usability problems, like bringing up windows that have all the buttons cut off on the right on the bottom, which is far from my only complaint. The wobble on the shoulder buttons in particular, however quality the switches under them might be, is at the very borderline of what I would consider to be intact, let alone acceptable, and I ran into a very interesting bug. Maybe it's unique to my unit, but I kind of doubt it. This is pre-production, to be very, very clear, where while I'm plugged in and charging, I can't actually boot up the device. I have to unplug, boot it, throw it back in, and then I can use it while I charge. Practically speaking though, none of that stuff really changes the usability of the device that much, and there are a shocking number of ways to use it. So right now I've actually mixed things up, and I'm using Steam in-home streaming to stream this game off of a computer upstairs. That's how I'm running Rocket League at a solid 60 frames per second with no dips whatsoever at the highest quality. Pretty freaking cool, and made possible by the fact that they didn't cheap out on those little things that you often see on cheapo handheld devices like dual-band Wi-Fi. And another interesting use case, while I don't necessarily agree with the optimism that GPD has about, you know, how great it is as a productivity device, is getting actual work done, because the TeamViewer experience is frankly not that great from a phone, and being able to remote in and use a computer with a mouse and keyboard is a pretty compelling use case, one that my wife brought up almost immediately when she looked at it. So I guess all that's really left then is the conclusion. Is it worth the price of admission, which is somewhere between 350 to 400 US dollars, for something that in essence is a fatter, clunkier Nintendo DS that runs a full Windows 10 operating system, which kind of blew my mind. And the answer is... up to you? Personally, I wouldn't buy one. But what this does make me excited for is the future of hypermobile devices like this, when they get just a little bit more powerful. Like, it feels kind of like the iPhone to me, is it as revolutionary as the iPhone? No, to be very clear. But it's kind of like the iPhone to me, where it's like, hey, there's this like great idea, but like it's kind of not that great right now, but stay tuned, like five years from now, it's gonna be awesome. That's what I feel this is like. Let me know in the comments below if you agree, or if you think I totally missed the mark. So if you're not familiar with Massdrop, they're a community where users discuss products they're interested in buying, and then Massdrop's all like, ooh, you guys wanna buy that? Okay. They go and talk to the manufacturer, they negotiate a bulk order at a discounted price, and bam! All those people get a lower price, the manufacturer gets to sell a bunch of units, and Massdrop sits in the middle. Today's drop is the Noble X IEMs. They are made in the USA, and they offer a great sound signature, with a midnight blue anodized faceplate, and a detachable cable. And they ship with two pairs of silicone ear tips, two foam ear tips, one pair of silicone ear tips, presumably this will make sense visually, a cleaning tool, a carrying case, and a warranty from Noble Audio. I mean, they got Noble right in the name, what are the odds they don't honor it, right? Now selling for $249.99 US dollars with free domestic shipping in the US. Check that out at the link in the video description. So I think that pretty much wraps it up. If you guys disliked this video, go ahead and hit that dislike button. But if you liked it, hit the like button, get subscribed, maybe even consider checking out the where to buy link in the video description for the stuff we featured today. Also linked in the video description is our merch store, which you can buy a cool shirt, where you can buy a cool shirt like this one, and our community forum, which you should totally join. I think that's it, right? We have other videos, you should watch them. We'll have a thing there. 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