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I can go now 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 instead oh oh right uh PIAA right this video is brought to you by private Internet access private Internet access has thousands of servers in dozens of countries all around the world it's a great way to have a secure VPN experience go check it out at the link in the video description there's also super affordable okay hey check this out 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 and this is brought to you by IP I a speaking of things that I'd buy P I a private Internet access is the VPN for pretty much anyone it works on up to five devices at once with a single account they've got apps for Windows Mac Linux Chrome I think there's like other platforms coming at some point in the future all the platforms they support they have a Chrome 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