ultra mobile pcs they aren't quite 100% dead and gone there are still some
manufacturers in China that are producing them this one right here is
the mix 2s not to be confused with Xiaomi's mobile phone with the exact
same name so not exactly an original name neither is this design completely
original it's from the same odium that we see with GPD now I did review some
time ago the GPD win which is very similar but that only had an atom
chipset hernia now this one and why it interests me is because it packs quite a
bit of power considering just how small doses so it has an eighth-generation
core m3 8100 whi with a maximum tuber of 3.4 gigahertz now that's a dual-core
chip and it also has paired up with 8 gigabytes of double data rate 3 RAM that
runs at 1600 megahertz it's not the fastest Ram we do have a PCIe SSD in
here it's 256 gigabytes you get about 200 free on first boot and certainly
when I opened this up to see if I could upgrade any components inside no
upgrades whatsoever so that PCIe SSD is actually part of the motherboard just
like the RAM and you kind of expect this with something so small you can see the
cram everything in there the battery size is 6,500 milliamp hours and the
battery life and this is then not very good it's one of the cons of this it
only lasts for about three and a half to four hours maximum in my testing and use
of this over two weeks and not great the charge times okay it's just over 2 hours
and 20 minutes or so to fully charge this by that type C port and you see we
do have active cooling so this does have a fan and another con there because of
that fan it can get a little bit irritating at times using this when
especially when it ramps up to 100% it's a little noisy fan that is in this so
the build quality is excellent the screen is a fully laminated IPS screen
with maximum brightness of 540 Lux approximately so that's very good and it
also does support a stylus and touch now the stylus sadly I don't have because it
just I ordered this at the same time and it still hasn't even shipped out and I'm
done waiting around for that and you'll notice that we do have large bezels
either side now the reason they've done this
is to fit more of their keyboard in for us but it's very interesting to note
that they didn't place a webcam in there which I thought would have made use of
that space and have been such a portable device it should really have a webcam
that's lacking that which is a little bit unfortunate there so the screen
itself is alloy on the top of it very good build all around it's very
solid and when you flip it around you can see it goes 180 degrees and also
right back it's quite stiff that hinge to 360 degrees so that converts it then
into a mini 7-inch tablet which is a rather handy and useful to do this of
course you get the presentation modes then you can prop it up like this you
can flip it over it into tip mode because it does have an accelerometer on
this so the screen will flip around now the back you can see right here there's
an exhaust fit so that's where the hot air is going to come out and you do
actually feel that little fan pushing air through that and as you see later on
in this review that this little tiny PC does get quite hot so there's no ports
on the left hand side on the right hand side
you can see we have a USB type a port that's USB 3 spec then we have an HDMI
out on this one now unfortunately no HDMI 4k 60 Hertz support this one
outputs only 4k at 30 Hertz same for the type C port now I thought this type C
port they may full at USB 3.1 spec that we'll be able to get at least 60 Hertz
out of this but I couldn't do it with the Intel drivers now the reason I say
with the Intel drivers is when I understand install those drivers for a
brief moment before we get drivers automatically installing with Windows I
do gain 4k 60 Hertz which is really odd so the Intel driver is limiting that for
some reason now we have a little dot there which is a microphone now this
might picks up a lot of noise from that fan so it's not very good and the other
thing too is a microSD card slot on here it's only USB to spec unfortunately it's
a just a real tick card reader there would have been great if it was an
ultra-high-speed one so they've got a few ports on there across 3.5 when we
hit phone jack with mic support at least that's another way getting a mic without
that fan noise now the keyboard you can see yeah it's crammed it's small and
this is always going to happen on some that's only 7 inches it's all about
compromises with these devices here but I do believe that they've done a really
good job with this one considering the space and the amount that they've taken
advantage of this I mean they've got on here a fingerprint reader from focal
tech now they're switz okay works with Windows hello so you can get quick entry
without having to key in a passport just swipe your finger on that and there is
an optical Trek point here so a little similar to the likes of those I'm
hardware once you get the rubber tips on them like the ones from the old IBM
ThinkPads or the no Novo's but it's optical so it's not really that good in
my experience you need to swipe probably about two or three times to go from one
side of the screen to the other with a mouse pointer which is a little
irritating and if you do double tap on it at least it does support double tap
but that said it's not a physical press in one it's just optical for that and we
do have mouse buttons down there as well as you can see no backlit keyboard on
this but still great to see we do have some controls there for the screen
brightness and the Handy Print Screen button that I always like to have so
they key travel on this as well is about one point six millimeters it is good and
there is no keyboard flick so overall considering the space the restrictions
they've had on this they've done a good job with this keyboard now taking a look
at the benchmarks I'm just gonna show you a couple here I'm not big on
benchmarks synthetic ones letters so you can see a Geekbench for we get a very
decent score considering that this can turbo up to three point four when the
thermals permit on this and in the multi-core score there of 6500 again
this is really good considering it's only a dual-core it's doing pretty well
to get a score like that the same goes for OpenCL this is the graphics core and
that integrated in Tower 615 scores not too bad here as well pretty good
performance from this it's all depending of course on those thermals now just to
mention this at the towards the start of the video so most are quite bad on this
being so small even though it does have the active fan before the phone ramps up
to a hundred percent it will run into some thermal throttling you can see of
hot temperatures here exceeding 90 degrees the back of it will get hot to
the touch so when you're doing something really demanding for about an hour
- now this little laptop ships with Windows 10 home it's version 1803 so
it's not the latest you will have to run Windows Update now with the default
Windows 10 scaling you will run into this problem now and then with certain
applications you can see I'm about to install Adobe Premiere Pro CC but I
don't actually have the full screen here it's right at the top there and there's
no way even using the mouse cursor to bring this whole thing down and that of
course is because of the Windows 10 scaling that's the culprit there now if
you set the scaling on 100% everything will show up but it'll be super tiny and
really hard to make out so you could edit 4k video on this 1080p but it is
very painful because everything is so small now if you connect it up to an
external monitor then you'll be able to do this I feel now set this getting to
100% you have to do this with Adobe Premiere Pro otherwise everything's just
not going to be able to fit in there and I did get some lock ups and some
slowdowns where the app was not responding to at times I just wanted to
show you very quickly the general performance you can expect from this so
I'm just going to load up randomly here a whole bunch of pages in Chrome so I
just searched cars and we load some videos and whatever websites here that I
can find just to give you an idea now I've never done this before so none of
this is going to be cached in the browser performance is really good so
you're editing Docs Excel spreadsheets things like that you're not going to
have an issue with this this is very quick I mean it feels like an i-5 in i3
the performance of this and swapping between those tabs as you know that so
comment the scrolling speed is good scrolling with touch also excellent here
in chrome you can see that that is smooth and I will just tap on one of
these links here and note that when you tap on the screen that if you press a
little too hard you will have this effect here you can see how it does
rocks so it's very easy to end up tipping the the whole laptop here right
back so go over to some of those other tabs there and you'll see that's all
loading and really quick the performance will probably surprise a lot of you now
our bias is completely locked out to us so you cannot adjust at least hear the
power limits that you can do it with Intel's XTU and on to gaming so this
integrated graphics that it has on here isn't actually too bad it's a lot more
powerful than the likes of what you get of course on the Gemini lake or the
Apollo Lake and this is on the low settings 720p
Counter Strike global Offensive and it hovers most of the time over 60 frames
per second so this is really good and even sooner
720p as you can see on the screen it looks sharp enough windows games like
ash felt nine legends here they are working fine and you can use it in the
tablet mode i one thing i have notice that when you flip the screen around it
does not disable the keyboards and it should actually do that so will stream
4k and youtube with this hardware perfectly fine vp9 codecs a TVC for K
100 megabits per second there's no point in showing this because it does it will
find this hardware is quite powerful that's in here so what about the audio
so the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that I showed you at the start down here
it has microphone and support the quality out of it I find to be ok it's
decent it's fine there's no static or interference
nothing like that bothersome now the speaker there's just one inside so it's
right in the middle here and it just sort of resonates through the keyboard
and comes out that way there but I'll give you a sample of it
but what sometimes does happen is you get a little bit of vibration coming
through this especially it will tracks that you're just listening to someone
talk for example I store it will then install that and you can see it's
running fine I haven't had any problems with it it is very fast the performance
okay so linux does boot up it runs and even touch works now because that this
display really is like a seven-inch tablet display its default orientation
is portrait it comes out like this now if i go through the settings in linux
here and try to rotate it i can't seem to do that it doesn't let me so that's
one hurdle you have to go around but otherwise the wireless is working and
everything so far seems to be working alright guys so i'm glad that someone is
still making these ultra mobile pcs because someone has to otherwise really
we're gonna have none of these around and this is one of the most powerful
ones you can find so seven inch laptop packing this kind of power is really
good now the build quality is excellent the keyboard it has its compromises
long-term use on this like if you're going to type out a full massive essay
or something on this keyboard it will get frustrating and you're going to be
longing for a full sized keyboard but considering that with these size
constraints they've had they've done a really good job squeezing so much into
it so the fingerprint reader on there well got the mouse left and right okay
the TrackPoint the optical one it's not brilliant but it is better than nothing
we've got a print screen struck out on here and the keys the feedback from them
is good it's not backlit i thought it was going to be backlit but for some
reason it's not with this one here i think on other models from GPD they are
they have used the backlit keyboard so we get a fair amount of ports on here
which is good saving the type-c port and the hdmi do
not support 4k 60 Hertz which is bothersome to me it's something I wanted
to run I don't like running my desktops in 4k at 30 Hertz it's too laggy and I
was hoping that this was going to be able to do it and it seems it's the
Intel drivers limiting that okay so we know the build is good what about the
performance that is also excellent really for what it is I find it's got a
nice amount of power in here so for your office tasks medium to light computing
needs this is going to be really good now I do have a slight issue with the
wireless so the range of this is not the best so the throughput you get depending
on how far you are from your router really does suffer and drop off I mean
this is the Intel wireless AC 31 65 chip that it hasn't
it's not a two-by-two antenna setup so not as good compared to say the 9000 or
even older 8000 series of wireless AC chips from Intel
you've got the Bluetooth 4.1 I think it is on this which works ok that's fine it
doesn't lag out and and drop off the wireless connection at least when you're
using both of them so fan noise it is very irritating once this thing gets hot
and it does peak at around 93 degrees it does run into thermal throttling so
that's going to happen no matter what I think because sometimes that fans just a
little bit too slow to ramp up and when it does and know how to % you certainly
hear it other people around you will hear it and it's a little bit irritating
now I've been running this a lot of the time as a desktop PC because had it
plugged into an external monitor and on and off that battery of the battery
sorry the fan is cycling and it brings me to the battery life also really bad
on this you only get three to four and a half four hours even four and a half
hours is very hard to get on this going to turn that brightness right down and
trying to do anything too demanding use the Windows 10 hour power saving modes
too as well to get that to achieve that charge time is fine it's about two and a
half hours with the built-in little 30 watt power delivery charger so overall
plenty of compromises as it expect for a PC of this size lacking a webcam which
is something I feel that should really have on this microphone is also quite
bad because it picks up all of that phone noise so really need to think long
and hard about do you really need a PC this small with so many compromises and
for the price of this is selling for around 600 u.s. it's expensive but yes
it is powerful so if you want that power pocketable then maybe it is worth a look
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