- Oops!
(beep)
You guys remember this impressive little number, right?
Full-fledged Windows gaming PC.
Got a slide up screen and keyboard.
Pocketable form factor,
hold on, gotta lose my phone here...
Bam!
Pretty freakin' sweet!
Except
ehh, I dunno.
Screen's a little small, isn't it?
That is where this comes in.
Meet
the ONE XPLAYER:
A powerful portable gaming machine
with a screen that absolutely dwarfs
the GPD Win 3.
Look at the size of this thing!
And it's comin' in to crush the growing competition
in this handheld PC market.
Okay, handheld...
Yeah, it's handheld.
Pocketable?
(clears throat)
Hold on...
(grunting)
Ehh.
Maybe not so much.
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(upbeat music)
This is actually a keyboard dock connector.
So, we don't have it unfortunately,
it's an optional accessory.
But you can see how it works,
there's a couple magnets right there.
So you pop that puppy on,
you kick out the Nintendo Switch-style kickstand,
and y'know, you're on a plane,
you put it on the seat tray or whatever.
And, it's kinda like a combination
between a Surface Pro and a netbook.
'Cause, while the display is big
for a handheld gaming console,
it's not exactly big for a computer.
The good news, though is that
moving right around to the front,
let's waste no time getting to this screen.
It is a 2560 by 1608.4 inch IPS display.
It's not HDR or anything like that
but it looks freakin' awesome while gaming,
and has a silly amount of pixel density for regular usage.
The colors are what I would describe as "good enough".
Brightness is also good enough.
And, while 60 hertz isn't the best thing ever,
with a device like this
you're gonna be lucky to be getting
more than 60 FPS in any modern games anyway.
So, I think it's pretty much a win.
Moving around to the back,
we've got two intakes
for what looks like a pretty beefy cooling system.
What the devil do they have in here?
As well as volume up and down,
mute, as well as a fingerprint sensor over here.
Of course, a lot of the business is up on the top.
Because it is a full-fledged PC,
it has full-fledged PC IO.
So you've got the cooling vents
that I talked about before.
Microphone/headphone combo jack.
Two USB Type-C's,
this one right here is labeled for charging.
MicroSD,
which is super nice.
I wouldn't load up a PC game on a microSD card,
but, if I was playing, y'know
older emulated games for example,
it's more than fast enough for that.
As well as USB 3.0.
That puts it in pretty close contention
with the Aya Neo for its IO.
The only thing really missing here
is that I would really prefer
to have a bottom-mounted charging port
so that when I'm gaming,
it's hangin' off the bottom and not off the top.
Oh, right, gaming!
(chuckles)
Let's talk about the controller.
So it's an Xbox-style controller.
There's your start.
There's your select.
I dunno, whatever, I'm a SNES kid.
Got your analog...
Click's okay.
A little mushy, I would say.
Resistance on the joysticks, though is
pretty darn good.
ABXY's
also a touch mushy.
D-pad not bad!
Considering how bad modern D-pads are,
I would consider this to be very acceptable.
And, this is really cool:
So you've got your right and left shoulder buttons,
but you've also got right and left triggers.
And, unlike the Aya Neo,
where these are just 1/ \0, binary states,
these (clicks tongue) are analog.
V' interesting.
'Specially if you're into racing games
or something like that.
We've got a keyboard button here,
which brings up the onscreen keyboard.
Not the good onscreen keyboard, unfortunately.
I wish that it just did that,
that would be better.
And if you hold it, it'll actually illuminate.
See, watch this: boop!
And now you can use your joystick as a mouse.
This needs some work.
Fortunately this is still an early access product,
so they've got some time to tune this,
but it takes an awful long time
to move the mouse across the screen right now.
That's not great.
They also got a turbo button.
Let's talk about what that means.
So inside here,
you can get anywhere from a Core i5-1135G7
all the way up to a Core i7-1185G7.
Which, (chuckles)
the ONE XPLAYER Indiegogo video calls,
"the world's most powerful CPU"
because I guess they haven't heard of
desktop CPU's, for example.
Anyway.
It's equipped with up to 16 gigs
of 4266 LPDDR4 memory,
Intel's Iris Xe graphics,
as well as 512 gigs of M.2 storage,
and a 60 watt-hour battery
which they say can last for five to six hours
with light usage,
or two to three hours while gaming.
So that's pretty competitive
with other handhelds that we've seen like this.
Which is good,
considering the size of the freakin' screen.
But, your battery life's gonna go down a little bit
if you go into turbo mode.
The cooling system for this thing apparently takes up
an inordinate amount of space inside it
because it's designed to handle up to
the full 28 watt TDP
of this CPU.
Why don't we go ahead and open it up
and have a look at that?
- No, not really
I wanna see it workin'.
(David laughing)
I wanna know what makes it tick, David.
Yeah, we only have one.
This is prototype AF.
Welp, it's basically all cooling system and battery,
as advertised.
Here's a controller.
Here's another controller.
These are actually surprisingly big speakers.
I've got high hopes for the integrated audio.
Here's the magnets that we found
for the keyboard dock.
One, two...
That one looks pretty cheaply mounted
but, whatever.
I lost count, doesn't matter.
Unfortunately, I don't really have a good look
at the inner guts.
I'm assuming that this thermal pad right here
is probably for the SSD.
I don't wanna break it before we make a video.
Yep.
Everything still seems to be working, which is good.
Do we have Cinebench on here or anything like that?
I gotta say,
the difference in screen resolution between this
and the GPD Win 3 and the Aya Neo
makes a huge difference.
Even being close to it like this,
like I would with a handheld,
it is, just...
It's crisp.
2560 by 1600 is a lot of pixels for this screen size.
Are we turboed right now?
Oh yeah, we turboed.
Let's see what kind of performance we can get.
We're gonna plug in.
I wanna see what this thing can freakin' do
on a drag strip.
Holy schnikes!
Your PC, huh?
She a goer?
Know what I mean?
Well base is 2.8.
This is three point almost one.
Not too flippin' shabby
considering this is a quad-core processor.
I mean, do you remember when quad-cores
at, y'know, three gigahertz in change
was the desktop experience?
Actually not that long ago.
It's a little loud.
Not crazy loud.
And, actually runs surprisingly not that hot
all things considered.
Of course, we don't have the onboard GPU running yet.
We're gonna fire up a game real quick here.
I just wanna see what the score is.
5,106 points.
That's about 75% as fast as a Core i7-7700K.
So like I said, not that far off desktop performance
just a few short years ago.
Let's see how it handles something kinda eSportsy.
We're gonna start with Rocket League.
Hmm.
Remember how I said I had high hopes
for the speakers David?
Well I did.
Hello?
All right.
The controller's got a bit of a weird behavior
where, if you have it in mouse mode,
when you launch the game
and then try to switch it back to gamepad mode,
the game won't always pick it up.
So let's go ahead and close the game
and give that another try here.
(clock ticking)
Controller's workin' now
and we are gonna go full moonshot here,
running at 2560 by 1600,
basically maxed out details,
uncapped frames per second,
and then disabling motion blur.
And let's see what we get here, all right?
That is a lot of resolution for a device this size.
- Yeah, I take back what I said before,
about the display being pretty decent.
We're sittin' at anywhere from around 35 to 45 FPS.
This is like, super playable.
How close can you get?
- [David] I'm pretty close--
- Wait, what, what do you mean battery's running low?
I am plugged in right now.
One of the outlets is unplugged!
We might get some more performance--
Oh man, the brightness went way up!
- [David] What!
- Oh, it was just,
I thought we were in the plugged-in profile!
Oh my goodness!
We're gettin' like 40 FPS now!
Actually that looks pretty similar
in terms of performance, but
the display looks way better!
It's running like max details!
One complaint though.
Something I'm noticing is that
the plastics and the molding,
they lack refinement compared to the Aya Neo
which conveniently,
I happen to have right here.
They've done a better job
of rounding off the bottom so that it rests
in your palms a little bit better.
And especially when you consider
how flippin' heavy this thing is,
I'm noticing, even after sitting here
and using it for the last like 15 minutes in a row,
it kinda is digging in a little bit,
it's not too comfortable.
But
there's something that I also realized
while I was talking to you guys about it.
The screen on this thing!
It's not just a little bigger.
It's a lot
bigger!
To the point where
I don't even think I would use it like this.
If I'm sittin' like this, right?
How close would this have to be to be equivalent?
This is very scientific...
About there.
So that buys you like an extra
at least three or four inches.
And you know what they say,
three or four inches is a lot!
You know what I want to do though?
We've got kind of a unique opportunity
with both Intel Xe graphics and a Ryzen 4500U
both in like mobile game console form factors.
Let's see how they stack up.
I'm gonna run this
at exactly the same resolution and settings
as that one.
Also, we should probably turn turbo off,
nobody's gonna use that.
It's like gonna kill your battery life.
The performance of these is impressively close.
So what it really comes down to is,
who makes the game console design that you prefer.
And also some other things.
It's a bit tangential to my point
but hey, the USB port works.
Transferring to this drive
at 636 megabytes a second real casually right now.
That's the limit of this drive,
not the limit of this port.
Pretty sweet.
Everything seems to be going well in RPCS3
running Persona 5 which is
a pretty demanding PlayStation 3 game.
- Oh, and it's done, bud.
So there you have it.
While Intel's onboard Xe graphics
definitely have a lot of potential,
right now the drivers have some catching up to do
compared to AMD, Nvidia, and
for that matter even Intel's older onboard graphics.
For comparison, (clears throat)
the Aya Neo.
Okay, that's not a lot of FPS,
but
it is running.
I bet we could get it running better if
we spent some more time on it though.
(clock ticking)
There we go.
Look at that.
Dang!
We gettin' like almost 30 FPS.
Basically 30 FPS locked.
Emulating that on onboard graphics:
pretty freakin' cool.
And I do have hope for Xe.
It's just that
the drivers are clearly not there yet.
Couldn't even launch, and
AMD's runnin' at 30 FPS.
Of course that's not the device the video is about.
Let's go back to the ONE XPLAYER.
- Ah, no.
Switch, Yuzu doesn't work either.
What we can do though,
is we can run games in Dolphin.
So let's start with Super Mario 64.
Look at that ladies and gentlemen.
It's smooth.
N64 isn't the only thing you can do in Dolphin of course.
Let's go ahead and try something a little more demanding.
I'll play some Wii games, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh that, man that--
- Oh. - [David] Oh!
- That joystick really gets in the way of
what's shakin' here.
Man, this is a--
'Kay, I'm actually--
Sorry, David.
Can I just hold it where it's comfortable?
- Okay, 'cause this is awesome.
The size of this screen
is a complete game changer compared to the Aya Neo.
If Intel can get their drivers figured out,
this is frickin' awesome!
And to be clear guys, it's not just Intel.
The entire development community around these emulators
has to figure out how to get the most out of Xe graphics.
This button was a really good idea.
Being able to be fullscreen in an emulator
that doesn't have kind of any meaningful way to--
Oh wow, okay,
I guess you could do that.
Wait a second.
Is that a Windows 10 feature?
Oh that's freakin' awesome.
Nevermind. Well, whatever.
It's still nice to have a button that just
takes you back to the desktop.
(David chuckles)
Can you even believe this is like a desktop background
people use at work?
Grow up.
Oops!
(beep)
For those of you who aren't familiar,
what we're doing now is not running Apex Legends
natively on this,
but rather streaming it from a gaming desktop upstairs.
That's one of the ways that you can have have
AAA gaming experience on these mobile devices
if you already have a gaming PC.
Oh wow, is this like actually your account Jessie?
- Well not settings, like your record (laughs).
- I'm not very good at this game.
- We're gonna double our kill count today.
If you just watch.
To play a Heal Drone.
How do I do that?
- Oh, I'm dead.
- I'm bleeding out - [David] You're downed yeah.
Oh wow.
I just got, did I just get my face stomped on?
- Wow, that was really fast (laughs).
(beep)
Now we're running on the hardware directly
and the point of firing up something like
Batman Arkham Asylum is to show
that with the enormous back catalog
of PC games that are out there,
just because it's a AAA
doesn't mean you won't be able to run it on a handheld.
Sure, something newer like Apex Legends?
Probably not gonna run that great.
But an older title like this?
I have it absolutely cranked.
You're seeing a couple stutters and hiccups here, but
that is not bad!
Native res'!
It's like actually pretty dang smooth.
And this is not a terrible looking game.
Obviously the textures aren't very modern generation
and stuff like that.
Like, it's kind of flat looking
compared to something newer, but
it's not bad!
Of course that's before we talk about price.
After the Indiegogo's complete,
the base model is gonna start at over $1,000
with the top-end Core i7, two terabyte one
running 1,600 U.S. dollars.
And, that's to say nothing of the fact that
we know absolutely nothing about this company
other than that apparently they have a
silkscreen on here that says "powered by Tencent Games".
So there's a good chance that
they will actually deliver hardware, but
unlike someone like GPD,
where we know that they have long track record
of delivering exactly what they say they are
and then actually following up with support for the devices,
we just have no idea what that's gonna look like.
It's an utterly unique experience, though
with the size of this screen.
And while I do have some concerns
about Intel's Xe driver support in the years to come,
it's Intel, so
that scenario where I have confidence
that they're gonna mostly get that stuff figured out.
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(upbeat music) If you guys enjoyed
this video,
well hey, we actually checked out
quite a few devices like that
and we've alluded to these other ones,
but you can check out our full videos on the GPD Win 3
as well as the Aya Neo at the links down below.