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remember when we showed off the GPD win a super tiny but full fledged Windows computer well guess what there's a sequel and it's in a black and gold box and it comes out like this look people like unboxings right look at this thing it's bigger faster and better in every possible way let's check it out all right so now that our Windows Update is done let's take a closer look at this guy we've got some kind of rubberized grips on the side here and here so that you don't lose your grip we've got a cooling fan got kind of a black-and-gray aesthetic and then we can just I guess open it up and get started so right out of the box like spec wise this thing is really impressive the display is a six inch gorilla glass topped H IPS 10-point multi-touch display so it's 1280 by 720 which is not amazing today but is good enough for a device this size the processor is a core m37 Y 30 so what's cool about that is that that is not atom based that's a 15 watt KB Lake that runs one gigahertz base 2.6 gigahertz boost it's got 2 cores and it's hyper threaded it's running Intel HD graphics 615 so not the most capable we'll look at it a little closer later eight gigs of LP ddr3 RAM it's got you can actually see it here on the bottom support for up to a 42 millimeter n dot 2 though it should be noted it runs a HDI not nvme it's got a dual band AC Wi-Fi so I'd like to see how it handles something like steam in-home streaming and packed into this you can see it's quite big it's got 2 4900 milliamp hour batteries for up to 6 to 8 hours of battery life I'm really impressed with the IO 2 just like I was last time around so here come come have a look at this so you've got your USB type-c that handles charging duties and from our testing also handles outputting to like a USB C dongle so you could adapt it to HDMI or an SD slot or whatever else you want it's got a headphone jack it's got a USB 3 type-a port it's got a micro SD slot and it's also got a micro HDMI output so if you wanted to hook it up to a monitor or something then you could totally do that right now being totally honest the speakers aren't great but apparently this is mostly a driver issue that they're already aware of this is a pre-production sample and I'm more concerned in the longer term with the inputs the keyboard right off the bat way improved over the last generation it doesn't have a ton of flex to it and the tactile click of the keys like actually feels pretty good like it's not like I type on it all day or anything but way better than I expected and just like last time this little switch right here super handy so you change the joysticks from gamepad mode over to Mouse mode and all of a sudden boom there you go you're moving your mouse cursor around it's not you know a nipple and it's not a trackpad but with a little bit of practice you could definitely get really good with this thing joystick quality now that was really impressive apparently these are sourced from the Japanese company Alps which I totally believe because they feel really good like like like almost DS grade good and as for the shoulder buttons here at these are nice clicky buttons on our two r1 and r3 now it should be noted that these were a little hard to distinguish especially at first from each other while gaming but I do think it's something that you might get used to something that would take a little longer to get used to as the weight this thing is a touch heavy it's about 460 grams and making matters worse the screen tilt is like just a little bit too far this way then all the way this way so I can't quite find myself in that perfect comfortable in-between little kind of snap out like that but okay enough talk about hypotheticals let's let's fire up some games one thing that's really nice right out of the gate on a device like this with steam in-home streaming is if you have to make any configuration changes or if you run into any issues with it in general which let's face it they're a thing it's a lot easier to fix them and make any adjustments on a full-fledged computer than with you know something like a shield portable which as you guys probably know I'm a big fan of this is basically what it looks like running a game elsewhere on the network over Wi-Fi so check this out see those tips right there controller disconnected spacebar okay boom we're in PC mode hole d to drain Eric's for health switch to gamepad mode and boom it's working again already and all the prompts will change again so that we won't make any mistakes in terms of our control scheme check that out beat a drop so the idea here is that over your home network using steam or even over the Internet assuming your connections good enough using a service like parsec if you have a powerful enough machine somewhere you can play full quality games even though the GPU on this thing really is not nearly powerful enough to run games like shadow of war so how bad you might ask running things natively well integrated graphics are still what they are so here I've got a steam library running off of this external 1 terabyte drive so I've got a bunch of different games installed and you're gonna see here that even in a fairly indie game not super demanding like gang beasts we're seeing occasional stutters and this is running at 720p actually not even apparently we're running with pillar boxes for some reason like to be clear it's not fair to expect Deus Ex mankind divided to run well you know even even at 720p on all low settings but as long as you're looking at kind of older games and you don't expect to be getting a smooth 60 or 120 frames per second not that that would matter it's a 60 Hertz display it's not the worst thing ever though I'd personally definitely prefer to stream off something else if I'm running something demanding emulation on the other hand is the wind twos wheelhouse so check this out this is starfox assault running on a GameCube emulator without any problems 60 FPS at the original resolution so that's at 480 less demanding can actually run enhanced @gp DS native 720p resolution and it goes pretty much without saying that it works really well for snez n64 PSX via retroarch but we were actually pretty surprised to see that it works reasonably well with Playstation 2 games even at original resolution again though now we did see more than the occasional slowdown in Grand Theft Auto for example but again in less demanding games this shouldn't be as much of a problem an input lag overall was basically negligible okay so what you're probably wondering at this point sorry can I actually take that from you enough Grand Theft Auto at work what you're probably wondering at this point is how much does one of these cost well like its predecessor the win 2 is pretty pricey so it's $600 while it's running on its I don't remember which crowdfunding campaign site it is but while it's running its crowdfunding campaign and then 700 after that but it's got a lot of versatility and 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