What Even is This TINY Computer? - GDP MicroPC Handheld Laptop #Helpful Post

 

What Even is This TINY Computer? - GDP MicroPC Handheld Laptop #Helpful Post

so GPD is the company best known for

well really this actually oh you know

what no I even have oh you guys are

gonna see a this is our stream cart and

this is Jake

he runs the stream cart no check this

out over here over here no you could

have stayed right where you were this

right here is the GPD

whatever the crap yeah this is the

pocket pocket too if I recall correctly

and I use this thing for whatever I need

like kind of a computer but also I don't

care if it takes me a long time to get

anything done because the the interface

on it is kind of kludgy okay

well that's kind of what GPD is known

for they've got like more gaming

oriented devices they've got more

consumer oriented devices like that one

over there

and then this well this is one with

really really weird positioning so we've

got an early advanced unit here you can

see even the IndieGoGo campaign isn't

live yet now normally we actually don't

really even talk about anything that's

Kickstarter or IndieGoGo or crowdfunded

because you know the track records for

these companies for delivering on what

they're promised on what they promised

yeah they're not great however gpb's

actually kind of been around a while and

they've successfully delivered quite a

few crowdfunded products at this point

so I'm not too worried about it and this

is the Micro PC the business-oriented

mini PC so come on over come on come on

come on let's have a look at this thing

so first there's their positioning for

it so you can see this isn't even live

yet it'll be up soon I actually don't

know what the pricing is but in terms of

I'll go through the specs later but I

want to talk about sort of what they

think this is for in the fields of

network communication electric power

exploration mining archaeology education

training manufacturing service chain

call center business services

public institutions government military

and many more this is the perfect

alternative to traditional notebooks and

it is adaptive to extreme conditions so

then they proceed to compare it to the

surface go it is much better than

Microsoft Surface go which they say has

been kind of dubbed an iPad pro killer

ok so then they figure if they're better

than the surface go they are by

extension better than the iPad pro so

let's go ahead here so they compare to

the surface go so there we've got a

seller on an 4100 I'm gonna go ahead and

plug in my power brick here so this is

just a little what does this thing 5

volts 3 amps 9 volt 2.67 12 volt 2 amp

it's one of those quick quick charging

adapters here go ahead and plug that in

so it's got a seller on an 4100 which is

4 cores 4 threads at anywhere between 1

gigahertz and that that's at 2,000 I

actually have a way more ghetto spec

sheet but one that's actually probably

more useful for this particular thing

come on really there we go

1 gigahertz to 2.4 gigahertz so that's

Gemini Lake

we've got does that need something oh

it's Nick what can I do for you Nick

we're live streaming what even is tiny

computer is that what it's called you

know what I love it leave it leave it no

I love it

no Jake that's an executive order leave

it the way it is no I demand you change

it back what even is tiny computer yes

yeah Oh beautiful

good work good work Jake I've way too

much fun with these lives changes it's

great alright ah let's get this thing up

right I didn't run through the specs so

it's got eight gigs of lpddr4

oh wait really no four gigs of lpddr4

memory it's got 128 gigs of n dot to

storage not nvme mind you just regular

and to storage it's got AC wireless it's

got you know I mean I don't know this is

only a 720p display but it should be

noted that at this size honestly that

doesn't really matter like if you come

in and have a look at this thing like it

looks quite sharp

like here if we bring up let's just

bring up a browser oh oh oh we do have

another browser oh thank goodness one

second here I'm sorry yeah if we bring

up a browser here let's go ahead and

have a look at some text like it looks

pretty good not as good as their devices

that I've seen before in fact I believe

the one over on my desk actually has a

1080p screen or it might even be 1920 by

1200 don't don't quote me on that but

it's definitely usable it's got Gorilla

Glass 4 but unlike everything else I've

ever seen from these guys it does not

appear to be a touchscreen so you are

actually expected to navigate on this

thing like this so you've got your

trackpad here searching much glare on

the screen are you good David good all

right so you got your trackpad here and

then you've got your left and right and

your middle click over here so you go

ahead and is chrome gonna launch that

moment when edge wins by default

can we oh it's got a click pad oh maybe

that's why my clicks weren't registering

or maybe it's just slow because even

faster than a surface go does not

necessarily a fast one make it

performance there's a mouse no no I'm

I'm gonna have the experience that they

expect archaeologists to have in the

field here oh I'm sure the keyboard is

mushy I mean okay so okay what is going

on here it keeps kind of miss

registering my clicks one thing to note

is that I don't want to judge it

necessarily too hard based on its state

right now this is a pre-production unit

but also I do have to say GPD that you

could have done probably a slightly

better job here oh yeah it's a little

much testing okay can you look away

while I enter my password at that moment

when you're live streaming and yeah

nice I like it good work David she's got

sass this is why we like mr. goat yeah

let's go ahead and expand this what is

going on

it keeps registering phantom clicks Lee

are you messing with me

is there a wife wireless dongle in here

okay no no I took it out I took it I

think I took it out no I don't think so

see that's it

okay all right all right just okay try

to let's try to reset it you know just

chill out okay all right I just know it

doesn't rent crisis it doesn't run

crisis okay okay all right well they're

gonna need some time to sort out that

trackpad thing for sure if it runs

anything like that I will not be

impressed let's go ahead and have a look

here so our CPU now originally they

SPECT this thing for six watts but we

actually just got Jake just installed it

today some kind of like a firmware

update or something BIOS update some

like that an easy update that's going to

increase it to 10 watts which means we

should see actually like pretty decent

important performance so we've got 10

watts 4 threads up to 2 point whatever

gigahertz 1.1 gigahertz base that

actually says here and why don't we

start with a good old-fashioned

Cinebench right let's do it percussive

maintenance yes

that is what we were going for and don't

worry I haven't forgotten to get back to

the keyboard with you guys but I want to

see this Cinebench run and let's face it

this could take a little while so now's

a good time to get started on it all

right boom Cinebench r15 baby if we're

over do you remember what the surface

girl was good for was like around 400 or

so no idea thanks Jake you don't have

Google in front of you or anything so

you couldn't this is kind of like you

know how when they ask the producer on a

radio show like hey do you

the thing and they actually are looking

it up in the background alright look at

this he's see he may not be the fastest

kid on the street but darn it he gets

there he may not be the sharpest tool in

the shed but he's certainly a tool he

may not be the campus for Jake I'm just

I'm just trying to kill time well this

runs Oh we're not running on hold on

we're gonna run on wall power here I

don't know if that's gonna make a

difference all right hit me hit me a 160

- all right all right so that's a pretty

low bar anywhere from 120 to 160 - with

that said this is not some impressive

performance one thing we should have a

look at here though is what our CPU is

actually running at so this is nice

check this out

we're seeing speeds to the tune of

around 1.6 gigahertz turbo while we are

stressing all 4 cores and actually I can

use this opportunity to go through the

i/o with you guys so check this out

headphone microphone jack

all right nothing over here that looks

like a microphone though so bear that in

mind

over here microSD full-size USB type-a

move around to the back what why so we

got Gigabit LAN it says gigabit on the

spec sheet okay I'm gonna try it again

I'll try it again okay so they say

gigabit but we're gonna try that we've

got two more USB three Taipei's a USB

three types see that also a hat acts as

a power input HDMI oh yeah and this kit

is also compatible with hubs like this

so you could add full-size SD and all

this other crap to it with just one

connector I love USB type-c HDMI out and

it's been an rs-232 serial connector so

given the market that they're targeting

that actually makes a ton of sense

because I would if I was out in the

field and I wanted to connect to some

archaic piece of scientific equipment or

even a modern piece of scientific way

because a lot of it still uses a serial

interface I could totally do that with

this thing now mind you there are

usb-to-serial dongles so it's not like

you would have to buy one of these it's

just one of those sort of all in one

kind of creature comfort things that I

could I could definitely get behind so

the screen is six inches I don't think I

mentioned that before and this turbo

speed has managed to sustain itself here

so we're still running 1.6 gigahertz and

we can have a listen to how loud it is

so in terms of thermals they've got nice

big vents on the bottom they've got

exhaust on the back here can you hear it

on my mic Jake okay sorry well I wanted

to I want it to be representative of

like what it's like I mean it's not

super loud like yeah listen with it you

can turn the oh that's right so I've

seen this feature on their stuff before

I'm not gonna do it during the Cinebench

run but there's actually a switch on the

top here where we can turn the cooling

fan off and I suspect that would also

probably dial back the CPU Tamura like

that six watt limit and we'd probably

see around one gigahertz sustained

I'm guessing don't don't quote me on

that alright we're just about done here

the suspense I can hardly wait we ready

181 okay so in fairness that is better

than a surface go with that said the

surface go with its 10-inch screen and

just sort of general large earnest and

more sexy sex appeal Ness also has its

place but come we'll come on in let's do

some typing tests here okay

you know what Jake I'm gonna try to

touch type can you get okay so I'm

looking here I'm looking this way can

you uh can you dictate to me please oh

wait no no one well first you know

you'll dictate don't don't worry don't

worry you'll be the dictator I just I

wanted to I wanted to help put to this

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so I'm gonna touch tape dictate me it's

hard

hello and NT is just like like a slight

offset from my it got a little rougher

later okay okay oh hold on

I do like burritos

this is a this is a really long sentence

I got burrito it's hard to tell if I'm

hitting it oh wow that space bar is

horrendous okay come on come on in you

guys can have a can I have a closer look

at this so the the spacing of the

keyboard is not great because even

though to their credit they've actually

managed a fairly standard layout so the

enter key backspace

shift ish there's an up arrow there

that's sort of in the way are all kind

of where they're supposed to be but even

just to keep looking at this it's fine

I'll be right back but even if we

contrast it to their own previous mini

PC attempts the ability to like actually

put a finger on each one of the keys is

severely hampered so if you have a look

here like can you get a close-up shot

there to show how many keys my four

fingers are covering even all completely

close together can you see that you got

that cuz I've got I've got a 4 to 5

ratio here yeah how's that you like that

4 to 5 ratio here and bear in mind of

course to that while my fingers are a

little bit like thick sort of compared

to their length there my hands are

pretty small so you are not you're not

gonna have a better time so this is the

kind of device that you can pretty much

take for granted that you are not touch

typing on you're basically like you can

tell they kind of intend for it to be

used like like this that do that that

and then in an emergency if I oh man if

I need to enter some text I could be

like okay I'm filling out the

field report you know like that's kind

of the extent of the text entry you're

doing I think for a lot of people how do

I say this without coming across the

wrong way people who are old enough to

be my parents I think for a lot of

people this would actually be faster

than in putting on a smartphone but for

myself I can definitely type faster on a

touchscreen than I then I could on this

like there's no question with that said

your smartphone doesn't have the ability

to run Cinebench even if it's only a

hundred and twenty-one points so there's

a lot of things that you just flat-out

wouldn't be able to do without a full

you know x86 processor you know your

full web browser and even support for I

mean really anything so one of the

things that we queued up to do here is

actually let's fire up Ida and then yeah

look we're gonna fire up rocket leaves

heck yeah

not that that's gonna make me any better

at rocket League you know it's really

funny I often use playing on keyboard as

an excuse for sucking at rocket League

whenever we demo it or whenever I have

to like do it in b-roll or whatever else

and Jake's on to me because I think he

knows that I'm actually just terrible so

he provided me with an Xbox controller

to ensure that there's no excuse for me

now in fairness to me though I actually

do not know the controls on keyboard I

just also don't know them on controller

which is something that I had always

left off when we were having these kinds

of conversations so computer summary

what do we got here computer name no

what am i what am I looking for oh we

can get our temperatures and all that

kind of cool stuff how many people are

watching right now thanks guys

hope you guys are having as much fun as

we are by the way when shows not

cancelled today this stream what really

free recorded a hey like been apples

this yeah this this LAN shows not

canceled we wanted to do this stream

like four hours ago and then it got it

got delayed it got a little delayed

ah all right you know what I'm not gonna

bother like stress-testing let's just

hit it with rocket League and see what

happens so I'm gonna plug this in I love

the i/o though like it just has

everything

do they still not believe me look we

only pre record when we feel like it

okay so you know come on

actually we've only done it I think

probably like three times we were we've

pre recorded when show once was when we

were on vacation somewhere and then

another time was when like when show

fell on Christmas Day or something like

he just wasn't reasonable alright press

any button to start No

Oh wish me luck

is this not pairing have you paired this

you didn't pair this thank you for that

yeah I know how to do it it's just you

know if you do things ahead of time then

it makes for a smoother video especially

when it's a live stream Jake do you want

a chair to sit on David yeah that would

be a good idea I'll kneel yes did you

see that you missed it didn't you Oh

David behind the back catch and you

missed it that's a good throw Jake all

right press any button to start my god

that looks that looks awful

I think you did turn the settings way

down ah wait a minute why am I not

seeing the Settings thing also is

overscan on this looks horrendous

well I mean we don't even we still don't

even know if it's gonna like run decent

anyway so why don't we find out if we're

getting many many FPS and we can always

turn the details up oh boy that does not

look promising

Wow slow motion what's that yeah I'm

thinking maybe probably not oh man man I

suck at this game she said as though

there were games he doesn't suck at

where is it where's the ball oh there it

is

this is not an amazing experience

it's kind of where to go oh oh you know

what

conveniently though that means that I

can blame my terribleness on this bad

framerate oh crap I just want one goal

that's all I want is that so much to ask

no one knows what's going on right oh oh

I just hit it the wrong way wait where

is it oh my gosh terrible terrible aah

David are you judging me right now

thanks I appreciate that yeah oh yeah

I'm wearing my jeeva shirt today yes

it's more powerful than geebo anything's

more powerful than geebo so you know

what's interesting like I didn't think

720p was that bad and if you come in

here and look at this screen honestly

it's it's far more look at a bow I guess

that's just the beauty of pixel density

hey cuz if I get my face in really close

like yeah it looks like garbage but if I

was actually playing on the little

screen it wouldn't bother me nearly

nearly as much like there's not a lot of

detail there but it's still like it's

more usable actually does it seem to be

running smooth there David yeah now

that's interesting

has it kind of settled in a little bit

because even up here looks a little

better now no it does look smooth around

here that doesn't make any sense though

that's me weird unless the external

display is running at 30 Hertz it

doesn't seem to be no that's 60 for sure

and I'm gonna double check just to be

sure but I'm like very certain that this

is 60 Hertz yep weird okay

well honestly I mean is there much else

for us to say about this thing at this

point so unlike some of their other

devices this is not a mobile gaming

solution in any way shape or form the

keyboard is really only usable from like

a there we go from like hunting and

pecking with two thumbs kind of

perspective they definitely have some

work to do on the trackpad although like

with their track record I do have a

reasonable

of confidence that they're gonna figure

that out and the form factor is not

quite as slim and sexy as some of the

stuff that they've done before but I can

kind of understand it based on that they

intend this for a very different use

case really the selling point for this

guy is the i/o so if you need that video

output remember type-c can be converted

to anything including like VGA out if

you need serial and you need something

that's just kind of like throw in your

in your bag and and and let go and you

think there's a good chance you won't

need it but just in case you do it's

nice to have then I could kind of see

this thing's place as a device like that

now one thing I did promise that I was

gonna check before we finished here is

the land so Jake says he only got 100

megabit but they do advertise Gigabit

LAN so let's go ahead and see if that's

that's the thing it is really cool being

able to hook up like a full computers

worth of i/o to it though like that's

pretty sick alright let's go check this

out change adapter options come on it's

pretty slow gigabit yep I got a gigabit

I got gigabit oh cool so it must have

just been your connection or something

like that so in conclusion if you see

your specific need for this go ahead and

back it I personally wouldn't buy one

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as soon as I can okay so here's the plan

we have one more video to do do you have

the EULA phone here or the EULA phone or

whatever okay so we're doing a video on

the phone power five we have to shoot

that today check this out this is gonna

be our live stream next week I think so

in screen fingerprint reader but bow up

give her a minute but bow oh I wonder

does the in screen fingerprint reader

work from that when you're on that no

okay let's try that a little more

gracefully BAM dang it why is it locking

stupid thing anyway whatever the point

is it has displays on both sides okay

it's that phone so I'm thinking we'll do

something with that next week we're just

we lost it in our warehouse for a couple

weeks so we're so late to it now that I

don't know if it justifies a full

dedicated video you guys can feel free

to let me know in the chat if you

disagree if you'd like to see it get the

full review treatment but it's the vivo

next dual screen or whatever they call

this thing but yeah so I got to go do

that

EULA phone thing and then I think that's

it and then one show right yeah heck

yeah so we'll see you guys there yeah

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