Gadgetory

hey guys Lofton this is one of the world's smallest laptops so GPD just finished up their IndieGoGo campaign and they said that one of their very first prototypes so let's take a look I feel freckle Josh's ghost guiding my hand as I unbox this package oh wow this thing is wrapped up so this does not look like a normal laptop box this is the laptop are you serious or no like that's that's it this is the entire laptop oh wow it's actually aluminum in fact it actually looks like a tiny MacBook whoa when I heard the words world's smallest laptop I assumed something very small on plastic it honestly seems like someone ran a macbook through a shrink ray and that is not a bad thing or I get too far into it what else do we have in here we have a USB c2c cable as well as a power brick which I assume will use USB see I love this hinge that feels so smooth so cool is that while there are versions of this that run Linux this guy is preloaded with Windows 10 essentially what you're getting here is a full Windows laptop that will literally fit in the palm of your hand now it is a touch thicker than you might expect but because of that they're actually able to fit a pretty sizable battery inside something else is cool about this is that while it is a 7 inch display it's full IPS and it is 1920 by 1200 and in person this looks pretty nice I don't really have a whole lot to complain about here the keyboards are right I think the thing that trips me out is not so much the small size but the layout so if you get weird things like having the spacebar split into two different keys you've got a lot of your punctuation kind of squashed together and what's really good to me is that the backspace button has two keys above it and I constantly want to go up and hit the Delete key but keep in mind this is a very very tiny laptop you're probably not going to want to say write a paper on it but for a quick little bit of web browsing or something a little more basic I think you can get away with it so you know it doesn't have a tripod you do have a little nub it's not the most accurate thing in the world but it's really not that bad obviously you have the touch screen as well you want to get something that's a little bit more precise clickers also decent so the problem is is just a single speaker that's kind of on the bottom so it doesn't really sound great a little bit tinny but I don't know I feel like I'm willing to forgive a lot for laptops there's this tiny like I keep freaking out just that's so cool speaking of having a tiny laptop there actually are a fair few ports surprisingly so not only is there USB C for charging as well as data but there's also an HDMI port headphone as well as a full size USB 3 inside the pockets are actually pretty decent specs so it has a quad core Intel Atom processor a full eight gigabytes of memory as well as a 128 gigabyte SSD specialized that really aren't bad it's what you would expect to find a lot of budget laptops that are obviously much larger than this now because it is so small it does have a cooling fan but even when it's running a full blast it's not that loud this guy is also walking a 7 thousand milliamp hour battery that is not bad so especially with specs like this in such a small screen they claim around 12 hours of battery life and that sounds about right now what really jumps out to me though I keep coming back to this is just how nice the hardware is yes it's a little bit on the chunky side but when you consider just what all is crammed inside it's really a pretty decent trade-off it's interesting at how few compromises there are here so yeah the screen is small and it kind of looks like they just pulled it right off of a tablet but that's fine it's a solid unit and the same thing goes for running Windows sure this might not be the optimal Windows doing experience but what that high-res screen and a little bit of scaling it's actually kind of usable like normal web browsing that kind of stuff is totally fine honestly I feel like the keyboard is going to be the toughest part to get used to I think if you're really into a smaller computer that I think you can get used to it but feel like all of my muscle memory just is not there I'm constantly hitting the wrong key I'm to kind of like squish my hands together it's fine it's usable but it's not really ideal at all well you can't give this guy with Linux the idea that it can come with full Windows 10 out of the box is really cool and with that Atom processor and small screen yes you're going to be slightly limited and say doing things like video editing on this guy but for the most part if it runs on Windows you should be able to do it on the pocket so the single USBC cable not only can we get 4k 30 out but we can also do 1080 60 although that's not 1080 this totally works dude this is I I guess it's like there's no reason why this shouldn't work right but it's such a tiny laptop my initial instinct is of course it can't do that of course it can't do that but it can time for some minecraft the most amazing the game of all time well if you're a seven inch laptop anyway you know it's kind of cool about the setup is that not only are we getting a full display but with USBC we're also charging the pocket at the same time so essentially with one cable kind of like a MacBook you can do everything fermer is not great though so maybe playing minecraft on the external 4k display not the best idea oh yeah so toilet label now this is actually playing at 1200 P right now Minos might be degrees minecraft computer in the world but for something this small I think it really does make a big difference that it actually has a nice display I keep coming back to that like I expect this to be small and cheap and not very good but its quality oh I hate this oh no the barrel okay so you the mouse number one rule of advice juice a mouse that was really really bad so yeah this guy can play csgo frame rates a little bit lower than I would like but you should not buy this as a gaming computer the GPD pocket is a weird little gadget it's not for everyone but I've got to say I actually kind of like it so what do you guys think about this tiny tiny little laptop let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one