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inside this box I have an engineering sample an early unit of the successor to the wildly successful crowdfunded GPD pocket it's nice to have a crowdfunding campaign workout once in a while so this right here is a full-fledged quad-core PC bat per the name fits in your pocket or at least in my pocket I have pretty I have pretty big pockets it's not about the size of the pockets it's about that man who wears the pocket doesn't matter anyway the point is they've made a bunch of changes both in terms of ergonomics and performance and we are going to take a look at it after I tell you about our sponsor Origin PC Origin pcs Evo 15s is only four point three pounds features a 144 Hertz 1080p display in a geforce gtx 1070 max q learn more about it and origins other pcs at the link in the video description now the big message from GP DS reviewers guide materials was really one about performance because we're going from atom course to actual full-fledged laptop cores in the pocket to now we only get two of them but I'm still expecting performance to be dramatically better because atom cores are slow but what's even with that said my main problem with the original pocket wasn't actually the performance it was really the the usability of the device starting with IO o both of these dead gosh darnit I will say this performance wise I mean based on how much further along we are in the setup process here you can see that it definitely makes a difference even if it wasn't something that had stood out to me at the time so here let's run through the physical changes while I wait for some stuff to install here so we've got USB type-c for charging on the right that's the same as before we've got a USB type a for whatever it is that you could want to plug into it that's the same as before but while last time we had our headphone jack as well as a micro HDMI on the right side now we turn it over to the other side and we've got no micro HDMI although honestly given that we live in the dongle age now Thank You Apple for that that doesn't bother me micro HDMI is a super fragile connector and I would much rather have this so we've got another full size type-a and our headphone jack over on the other side along with a microSD slot so if you've got one of those amazing little high-capacity micro SD cards like I will hopefully be able to find extremely quickly here then you can add up to 512 gigs of storage to this thing on top of the 128 gigs that it already comes with because it should be SDXC is that gonna work there we go that's probably just a tooling issue on the early units here so speaking of tooling actually this is a unibody construction here so you can see this is a single piece of aluminum all along the top here and then they're just putting a bottom cover on it the other big change from a usability perspective is the keyboard and mouse now okay my initial reaction was that I was pretty upset that they had done away with the nipple nose because while the nipple mouse isn't my favorite it's sort of making the best of a bad situation where you've got very little space to work with and once you get good with it you can get pretty good and what they replaced it was is this little what it is is okay you know normally the way a mouse works is you've got an optical sensor in it and then you move it around on a surface the way this works is we've got a stationary optical sensor under this little square right here and then you move a textured surface which I guess would be your finger in this case over top of it so what you end up doing is you end up needing quite a few motions in order to move all the way across the screen now what I also couldn't figure out at first was how to drag things because initially I thought as soon as I run out of finger runway that's as far as I can drag things because when you go to the edge it doesn't keep going like it would on a trackpad or on a nipple but fortunately they actually did think of this if you use your thumb a it doesn't require quite as many swipes just because you've got a larger surface here and B you've actually got left and right clicks here that are built into the top left corner of the device so if you can you can click and you can drag something to your heart's content just like that so you end up with this kind of like game controller style ergonomics to it that works really well especially when you consider how much better of a keyboard experience you're getting this drove me nuts the fact that here like look at this look at this from an angle here the fact that this spacebar was so hard to press without interfering with the left click or bumping your thumb on the bottom of the chassis here so it's pretty short which means it's not natural to hit with your left thumb you got to kind of reach for it all right period and question mark are in very unusual locations I do appreciate the full-size arrow keys this time around you can kind of see some of the gaming DNA of GPD that's actually short for gamepad digital with that some games do like a nice full-size arrow key so I'm glad to see that but the one huge sin that I wish they had changed as I wish it had to shift keys with that said compared to these key clusters like this and you know putting stuff like this over here this is something that I could at least eventually get used to they've done away with useless stuff like caps lock stuff you really don't need on a highly mobile experience like this one now I want to take a look at performance so now they don't intend for this to be a gaming machine but of course we're gonna try it so while we wait for that to load up though let's talk about what we might expect and what kind of specs are in here because it wasn't that long ago then it wasn't even realistic to build an entire computer in this kind of a form factor at all and we've gone from there to now this guy actually having very similar specs to the new Microsoft Surface go all right so this gives us a good look at things in here so right there that's our core m37 Y 30 CPU so that's dual cores at one to two gigahertz and change but what's important about those course is that those are actually Haswell course so this is the same type of course that gets used in a normal notebook or even a desktop machine seventh gen course then right next to it here we've got four gigs of ram although it's available with up to eight gigs then we've got 128 gigs of storage I'm pretty sure that's that then we've got a cooling fan here that's just got a single radiator and a single heat pipe right there and then we've got a pretty decent size 3,400 milliamp hour battery and that's pretty much it for the internals I guess I never mentioned right this is an H IPS 1280 did I say 1280 sorry I mean 1900 by 1200 display pretty darn good of these frame rates like so we're running at 1280 by 720 Lowe in Terminator but given that no one probably expected to be running triple-a games even older ones on a machine like this I would actually say the I call this like probably 10 to 15 FPS that we're getting right now it's pretty darn impressive I mean you'll be able to easily play games like you know retro games like Age of Empires 2 HD or whatever the case may be on something like this now this is cool so the fan can actually make I'd say a fair bit of noise it's definitely audible but what's neat is that if you want it to not turbo up they've actually got a dedicated button to turn the fan off and go into a low-power silent mode although I wouldn't expect to be running any games with it like that got it got it alright so to have a look at the performance improvements we've got the original pocket we've got the pocket 2 and then for the sake of completeness we've got the Pentium 44 15y equipped surface go higher base clock but no boost so problem is that especially with these low-power machines it's hard to find a chance to benchmark them because this one's got 60% of its CPU being sucked up by dism hosts servicing process desktop with anti-malware service executed just like random windows crap that's running in the background 80 percent 87 Microsoft this is your computer why you do this 90% so far Cinebench friend we've got the original pocket the pocket 2 with the n7 y 30 cpu and then we've got the Pentium 44 15 why in the surface go so let's go ahead and start them all oh yeah I guess they all have touch screens so I could just boom boop boop oh that one's started wait what what is going on here oh wow that one took that long just to start so you'll notice here that it still got four boxes that's because this is a hyper threaded processor and it is just creaming for true cores over here so turbo boost is giving us a clear advantage even though it's base clock is lower its turbo hang-up higher than the surface go oh it also has a lot more level three cache 4 Meg's versus 2 Meg's so the performance story is looking pretty good here at 177 I mean that's still not earth-shattering performance this is still slower than like a Core 2 quad q6600 from literally 10 years ago but that's 10% faster than the surface go at 160 and whatever that works out to a lot a lot a lot faster than 124 the old pocket and the remarkable thing is that yeah even though it's slower than a desktop CPU from 10 years ago that's a desktop CPU this literally fits in your pocket oh it should be noted they're changing some of the buttons though so this is gonna be tab and these are all kind of moving around it's for the better though it's for the better and now Linus won't watch his favorite youtuber like the speakers on this thing not amazing and I use the term speakers loosely because there's only one and it actually fires up through the the holes around the the keys so it doesn't yeah it doesn't sound that great but we can playback 1080p videos and suck back about 11 to 13 percent of the CPU that is not too shabby max screen brightness is not bad either like I wouldn't want to be watching in direct sunlight or anything but it's very comfortable even under direct overhead lighting here you know what all this talk of decent performance actually gets me thinking while GPB according to their marketing anyway might envision their user has like you know dainty ladies and coffee shops I see it has more of like like a power user on the go where you might want to have the the flexibility to either have something super portable I'll be it with limited functionality or the ability to use the device as like a mobile almost desktop experience so let's try that we've got a Type C dongle with a power in on the one side here we've got now player teather neck and let's get Photoshop installed see how usable this is the world-renowned Photoshop expert Hensel was called to work on a rare one-of-a-kind Linus tech tips thumbnail hold on I think I still have silent mode on oh okay well hold on was it slow yeah yeah okay so like every time I select a thing it does the waiting thing I don't mean I've ever had that happen before okay but like it's the RAM like yeah we've only got four gigs there is an 8 gig model though pixel art that's amazing okay so some reason I think it's not a great system to use on its own like if you have other options yeah but this actually reminds me of that time when you asked me to edit a thumbnail and all I had was my phone and I remote it in and edited a thumbnail on my phone right this would be better than this would be way better than thinking around on my phone okay so it's not perfect and there are definitely still some compromises that you're making when you have a machine that is small enough to fit in your pocket but for the price that they're asking which is actually really similar to the surface go for more performance and a keyboard that again isn't perfect but is included it looks pretty darn good and I think they're gonna have another successful crowdfunding campaign on their hands here speaking of successful private 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