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I'm struggling a lot with this video why are we making it who could possibly care and fight as this product exists 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 d fuel is the sugar free alternative energy beverage to maintain focus and endurance over long days and gaming sessions save some money using code Lynas 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 ripoff 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 2 amp device so you're going to 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 now ok so let's have a look at what we're dealing with here we've got a 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 that's right up to my mic not that bad you 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 i/o than the netbook how shocking so we've got a type-c connector that's for charging we've got a mini HDMI we've got a microSD 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 alright we've gone a type-a connector so that's USB 3 going by the color and a headset jack so it'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'm running Batman Arkham Asylum at 39 frames per second and we dip 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 ABX while 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 it's all like ok March along with the other guys in the band press X plus triangle like which one's X I've never played on a Playstation in my life ah what else we got here full keyboard as well as some exhilarating but ins here including starts yeah pause before you hit me right there start select print screen l three are three volume up and volume down dedicated button for that definitely thumbs up they're an Xbox button and power but what are the capabilities like 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 triple-a title but the fact that it runs it 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 our land who doesn't need healing anyway because he's like a badass but whatever check this out Final Fantasy Tactics running on ePSXe 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 scroll it is shockingly intuitive to use and actually very pleasant as long as you can you have decent vision because text is not very big and given this is a five and a half 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 at 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 freakin 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 hyper mobile 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 going to 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 mass drop they're a community where users discuss products they're interested in buying and then mass drops all like whoo you guys want to 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 mass drop sits in the middle today's drop is the noble X ie NS 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 they got no right in the name what are the odds they don't honor it right now selling for to $49.99 u.s. dollars with free domestic shipping in the u.s. check that out at the link in the video description so I think that 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