 Don't trust your eyes. That is not a Nintendo Switch with sweet clear plastic Joy-Cons. In fact, it's not even made by Nintendo at all. That's right. It's a full blown gaming PC in the shape of a Nintendo Switch. It's got controller buttons, joysticks and a D-pad. And based on the marketing at least, it's got enough raw gaming dragon energy to compete with real handheld consoles while carrying the weight of a full Windows 10 installation. How, you might ask? Let me put it this way. If you saw the GPD Win 3 and you thought, man, how awesome would it be if they did that, but they went AMD? I'm holding the answer. Just like I hold the answer to who our sponsor is. War Thunder is an online military vehicle combat game that's free to play and tons of fun. Try it for free down below and get some special bonus items for signing up. If you would like to get the full version of this game, please click the link below. Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the next video. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. has raised over 3 million US dollars on its Indiegogo campaign. And why shouldn't it? Honestly, for being hands-on, it's pretty great. Which means though, that the Neo here is going to have to be even greater in order to stand out. Aya's company history is short, but fascinating. It was only founded at the start of 2020 by a man we'll be calling Uncle A, who dreamed of creating a truly zero compromises gaming experience that he could take with him anywhere. He ended up moving to Shenzhen and despite having no obvious business experience, here he is a year later with a team of 11 people, over a thousand pre-orders for the console in China, and an Indiegogo that's already raised one and a half million US dollars. And we're gonna have that linked below, but I wouldn't recommend clicking it just yet because all of that sounds like a pretty unbelievable story. And we haven't even tried this thing out for you yet. Now, under normal circumstances, I like to crack open these kinds of devices to take a look at the internal layout. But what's cool is Aya actually saved me some trouble by sending over one of their limited edition units with a clear plastic shell. At the heart of it, we find their Raptor Hexacore Ryzen 5 4500U with Vega 6 integrated graphics. Which I guess is their way of saying it has a Ryzen 5 4500U processor. I don't know where the Raptor stuff comes from. It's paired with 16 gigs of LPDDR4X memory clocked in at 4266 megahertz. And then up here is a full-sized M.2 slot with a one terabyte Western Digital SN530 NVMe SSD. And over here, we can see the 47 watt hour battery. Now these would be pretty modest specs in a laptop, but handheld, they're a lot more impressive and really cool. On that note, by the way, the built-in all copper cooler is small, but I would describe as fairly mighty. We did experience thermal throttling during heavy extended workloads, but it managed to hold our six core CPU at over 2.8 gigahertz and without getting unpleasantly loud. When it comes to general use, the Neo continues to improve. AYA offers a download on their website to JoyXOff, which allows you to use the controller inputs for mouse control, but it still falls behind the Win 3's hardware keyboard that's hidden behind a sliding screen. To be clear, GPD's approach is not perfect. But if you've ever used the on-screen keyboard on a Nintendo Switch, you'll have a pretty good idea of what the experience is like on the Neo, where even typing something basic like lttstore.com, such fine merchandise, requires shifting your grip or reaching beyond the point of comfort. One cool quality of life improvement is the inclusion of these two four button clusters on each side. The left has Xbox style start and select keys, a shortcut to Windows's game bar menu, and a toggle for the built-in green lighting. Oh, should turn that on. Hmm, while the right has the Windows and escape keys and shortcuts to bring up task manager and the on-screen keyboard. Curiously though, this keyboard button summons the worthless classic Windows on-screen keyboard, so I would strongly recommend just pushing here in the bottom right corner and getting the touch appropriate one. What all of this tells me is that you could make a case for the Neo as a daily driver PC. It's got three USB type C 10 gigabit ports with DisplayPort 1.4 built in. I mean, that's better IO than some decent sized laptops already, but then that argument falls apart a little bit unless you're willing to dock it every time you wanna do more than just browse YouTube or Netflix, because it's just not that easy to use. Clearly Uncle A was laser focused on building a portable gaming system. And for that, you know what, Uncle? You got a lot of things right starting with the screen. The Neo's seven inch HIPS panel has a peak brightness of 500 nits and resolution of just 1280 by 800. But you know what? That's actually a really good choice here. I wouldn't start doing all my Photoshop work on it, but it's bright and accurate enough that it's not distracting, and it offers reasonable pixel density while being much easier for the low powered integrated graphics to drive at its native resolution. Now it's only 60 Hertz, but given that we're looking at a little over an hour and a half of battery life in a moderately demanding game like Rocket League, that was probably a wise choice. The biggest thing that stands out about the gaming experience though is the screen. Cause seven inch doesn't sound a lot bigger than the 6.2 inches of the Nintendo Switch, but it feels downright immersive, especially compared to the 5.5 inch display on the GPD Win 3. Where it falls behind however, is the speakers. While they're large, they did not meet my expectations and could be best described as tinny and hollow. Thankfully, the controller experience makes up a significant amount of this ground. They're Joy-Con style, which means that if your hands are better described as paws, you might end up cramping after an extended play session. But as someone with smaller hands who is used to using the Nintendo Switch, I found them downright usable. That is as long as I wasn't trying to play a racing game. Unlike the Win 3, the Neo does not have analog style trigger buttons. As for performance, it's really good. Even though AMD Zen 2 based 4500U isn't quite enough to keep up with the 11th gen core chosen by GPD, e-sports games like Rocket League run well enough that I would describe them as butter smooth. And as for AAA games, while AES claim that it can run cyberpunk should be taken with a grain of salt, the game does technically run, even if it feels extremely sluggish and definitely doesn't look its best. Emulation on the other hand is frankly awesome. And since we're relying on AMD rather than Intel graphics drivers, we encountered far fewer random incompatibilities and glitches. A bigger performance issue we ran into seemed to be related to wifi. In online matches, we'd experienced leg spikes and irregularities that were resolved by plugging in a dongle and switching to a wire. So what we'd like to see before they ship this thing is maybe some tweaks to the wifi antenna while they're also fixing the speakers. But there's good news because other than those two complaints, if you're the kind of person who wants a device like this in your life, AYA is off to an incredibly good start here. Like GPD has been playing in this game for a lot longer and it does show in the maturity of their designs, but the Neo is already a dangerous competitor. And I expect that the rivalry between these two is only gonna heat up once mobile Ryzen chips with AMD Zen 3 architecture start showing up. In fact, I was reading today, GPD is working on a Zen based Win Max. Anyway, as always, we won't outright recommend a crowdfunded product. It's not finished yet, but at around the same price as the Win 3, this one is compelling enough that as I said before, we're at least gonna put the link in the description and let you decide if you wanna back it. Just like you need to decide to check out our sponsor. War Thunder is a free to play online military vehicle combat game that's available for Windows, Mac, Linux, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X and S with cross play. 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