Gaming on "World's Smallest Laptop": GPD Pocket review and games (Rocket League, Overwatch and more)5/1/2019 I have been waiting for this for a long time. This is the GPD Pocket, which some claim is the smallest laptop in the world https://liser.org/stronghold-g2-league-of-legends/.
Let´s start with some backstory. Do you remember the GPD Win? This is a handheld that runs PC games which I have shown time and time again on this channel. After the success of that product GPD ran a crowdfunding campaign for their next idea… a miniature laptop device that could fit in a pocket. After the crowdfunding campaign smashed all expectations GPD got to work and very recently released this weird thing to the world. And here it is… in the flesh, or metal. This specific one was sent to me as a review unit by the good fellows at GearBest, that also provided a coupon that you can use in the link the description to get a discount and support the channel. This is a very neat computer. Let´s start with an obvious comment, this is slightly bigger than the GPD Win, but that was made to be a gaming handheld and its tiny keyboard was for thumb use. Useless as a laptop. But Pocket is very much usable as a laptop so its claim as the one of the world’s smallest laptops still kinda stands. Since everything about the design about this device is geared towards being as portable as possible there is definitively a learning curve. The tiny keyboard takes a bit of getting used to before you can be efficient at it and this nob, which is used as a mouse, is not as efficient as an actual touch pad but it is an ok substitute considering the size. Altough if you are going to game, you are going to need a bluetooth mouse or something. But the built quality… GPD really has outdone themselves with how good this looks and feels. The whole thing is made out of aluminum, to the point that everyone I have shown it too asks if it is some sort of tiny macbook. The keyboard feels really good after you get used to it, even tough the layout is special and the 1080 screen is just fantastic. Really Also, this is totally a touchscreen so you can use that instead of the mouse Really did not expect this level of quality, or the fact that it has almost 120 GB of hard drive space or the fact that it has all these ports, something that that can not be taken for granted in modern laptops. It has a full USB port, a headphone jack, a micro HDMI port and a USB type C that while not thunderbolt so don’t expect any external GPUs, can be connected to a dongle for an extra USB or HDMI port. This device is just really functional… Which leads to performance, the thing you probably have been wondering during the length of this video. The GPD Pocket is equipped with a Intel Atom X7-Z8750 with an IntelHD 405, which is an improvement over the GPD Win’s Intel Atom X7-Z8700. Also, the pocket has 8 Gygs of RAM vs the 4 you could find on the GPD Win. Not a bad improvement overall. But, if we are going to talk about performance there is an important note to be made regarding temperature. One thing I learned about the GPD Win after months of using it is that in certaing intense games the device can get really hot. It seems GPD did not want that to happen with this laptop because, even tought the Pocket has an active cooling system the max temperature seems to be locked somewhere between 65 and 70º. Meaning that on my initial test I noticed the Intel Atom was throttling… throtteling? *Alex complains about his lack of English skills* The intel atom was reducing its clock speed really early, so games were not really using all the resources this PC had available. I have still not quite managed to figure out where the line is were the CPU starts suffering, something I have been discussing with viewers over the past few days, but there are a couple of things you can to get the best out of that chip.
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