The GPD Meme

It's honestly not that bad considering its size and specs. Main issues would be battery life, storage limitations and heat probably.

>shitty shoulder buttons
>tiny screen
>short battery life
>very underpowered
You'll get what you pay for, nothing more. It's a expensive toy but if that's what you're looking for then I'm not stopping you.

As far as gaming goes, this is as far as it can take you. Battery won't last long while doing so.

https://youtu.be/PQaL8teDDoE

>>57976858
Battery life although low for a laptop is still much better than the battery life on the 3DS and Vita. Those consoles last about 3-5 hours on a charge while playing games, this GPD gets 5-6 hours, 7-8 hours if you're just dicking around on the web browser.

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>>57976767
This is what they skimped on:
Quality control
User replaceable battery
Design
Keyboard
Manufacturing
Software engineering

And then there is the Dragonbox Pyra

5.5 inches is really too small of a screen for shit that's not optimized for its size

i'd love to see the handheld pc market take off but nobody has any clue wtf they're doing

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but will it lunix

>>57976767
>take any modern smartphone, everyone has one
>obtain dualshock 3/4 and $5 smartphone holder
>play very best games from every older platform, from nes/snes to dreamcast
>play 20yo chrono trigger and have infinitely more fun than you'd ever have with some gay windows batman game

>but i can play emulators on my windows thingie as well
pay $300 more and kill battery in one hour

cool gimmick though. I had HTC Universal with Debian on it, this thing really reminds me those times.

>>57976767
>>Quad-core Atom x7 Z8750
>screenshot of a videogame on the advertisement picture

get cucked

>>57976965
https://youtu.be/j6wa5yyEzeA?t=414

?

>>57976965
>>57976974
go to 6:55

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>>57976895
>Dragonbox Pyra
Just in case GPD Win wasn't ugly enough

>>57976767
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_XaQO2HMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHdFPZb674
It runs HL2 at 60Fps

>>57977002
*pukes internally*

Looks like shit, I wouldn't pay more than 30 bucks for it

>>57977005
everything runs hl2 at 60fps, my geforce 2 was running hl2 at 60fps (in 640x480 dx7)

there is even android hl2 port, originally intended to be shield exclusive but russians forced it to work with anything

>>57977005

It runs a 12 year old game well, cool. I hope it runs games that aren't the same age as middle schoolers well too.

They really should have gone with their original idea to use some of the AMD Merlin Falcon series chips.

>>57976974
>>57976986
Don't need to watch, have got an atom myself.
Miami Hotline runs perfectly, but that was about it.

There is no fun in playing vidya with 20-30 frames per second.

I wish it would be quick enough, just like you. But it just isn't yet. Intel cannot into iGPUs, sadly.

>it's basically a slightly thicker 3DS XL
With none of the modern games!
Hooray!

http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/80644/Apollo-Lake#@Mobile

If it's not running Apollo Lake it's shit

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>>57977039
A functional laptop does not look like a macbook.
Give this man an award.

>>57976951
Jeb?

>>57977066
You can stream chinese citra to it off a desktop and have a good amount of 3DS games playable.

>>57976951
That is unironically the ingredient for a successful YouTube channel.

"Will it Linux?" and then you test whatever gets sent to you to test out installing Linux onto it.

>>57976872
in what fucking universe does a 3ds get 5 hrs of battery life. it's more like 15

>>57977590
Bullshit, faggot. My 3DS XL would last pretty much spot on 5 hours with the 3D turned off and the volume at a lowish setting

>>57977590
which 3ds do you have?

my normal-3ds, small and first-gen, lasts even less than 5h unless i crank down brightness and turn off wifi

Also what with steam boy?

>>57977002
>>57977375
I don't know man. The latest render looks decent.
At least it doesn't have retarded-tier buttons that are way too close together to get any decent typing out of. Plus it has some decent ports.

>1x USB 3.0
>2x USB 2.0 (one has SATA output via adapter)
>1x Micro USB Outport (also used to charge device)
>1x Micro HDMI
>1x headset port (that supports ALL TRRS standards)

The fact that the batteries are replaceable and it is capable of using a SIM card for connecting to mobile networks is why it appeals to me.

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>>57977659
>steam boy

>>57977659
The Smach Z is looking kind of O-K

>>57977659
>>57977707
It became the Smach Z and it's never coming out.

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>>57977699
forgot pic

>>57977707
u mad?

also
>no Monster
get a load of this guy

>>57977574
Just Send The Money

>>57976767
Great device until you actually use it and watch the battery drain the fuck away.

for 350 buckaroos you could get some high end chinkshit phone with great specs and a fHD screen, a clam shell controller, and emulate away.

Motherfuckers should drops the Win10 key and the price.

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https://shop-oye.com/en/home/10642-slim-phablet-snail-w3d-smartphone-android-game-console-cpu-octa-core-ram-2gb-rom-16gb-3d-eye-1080p-ips-lcd-home.html

Thinking about buying this.

>>57977826
>Slim Phablet Snail
>Snail
hmmm...

>>57977826
looks like great emulation machine, if someone would promise me that it's rootable, i can disable this green button backlight (if it's not some kind of artist vision), battery life is okay and so is build quality, i'd probably get it and use it as my bedside fun machine

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What does /g/ think of the little Android bro, the XD?

>>57978335
Same garbage quality control. Light-bleeding because the case presses against the screen. Same with the battery against the keyboard.

They just assemble them in a hurry with whatever parts they get for that batch. Even different left and right speakers.

/g/ likes thinkpads.
Designed by richard snapper, made in the UK, real keyboard, matte screen. See where im going with this?

The Win is a Pyra china knockoff.

While the Pyra is not Snapper level design, it does have a non-spying telephony and 4G modem, and Linux|GNU.

The XD is a cheap emulation machine.

>>57977699
And that is the point. Functionality wins. Utilitarian design isn't ugly, it works.
If you aren't buying a device to get work down, but rather to look good with it or whatever ulterior motive, then one does not need a keyboard or anything else in the first place.

Dismissing something on looks without reading into it does not belong on /g.

>>57976823
It's actively cooled. It has a fan.

Not sure if that's really appropriate to have on a portable device...

>>57976895
While I wish them success, they can't compete with a Chinese company that can cheaply and quickly churn out products.

>>57980503
To be fair the fan is just there as an option. There's a switch on the bottom to turn it on and control speed. You can keep it off most of the time.

>>57977590
My n3DS small version gets 5-6 hours on screen brightness setting 4 while playing pokemon sun.

>>57976767

Its such a terrible platform to play games on and outside of games its probably even worse.

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Probably lacking in quality control. The Chinese have no concept of product testing and quality assurance.

>>57977574
>anything Linux
>succesful

No regrets on my purchase however I really wish it had a user replaceable battery.

Other than that it does fit nicely in a pocket but while the build quality is decent it would be nice if it were ruggedized to handle being in a pocket all day.

>>57977060
It's barely quick enough for me I'm ok with 24 fps, but yeah it really is borderline. Basically I've wanted this for about 20 years now

Is it true that Windows is soon to work on ARM chips? I heard somewhere that it was in the works.

If so, imagine a Tegra version of this running Windows. Much more power efficient while providing much, much greater graphics horsepower.

I'd pay for something like that.

>>57977817
Or much much less than 350 dollars, however you are stuck with android and all the older windows games that are never going to ported are not an option.

If you just want an emulator just buy a bluetooth controller for your phone

>>57981315
The garbage that is Windows with even less third-party software than Linux.
What a great combination.

For fuck's sake, this is not for gaming. This is for streaming (NVIDIA GameStream etc.) from your main computer.

>>57981315
>Is it true that Windows is soon to work on ARM chips?
It was a thing for a while, and then it was dropped.
It might become a thing again with the shared codebase between Windows Phone 10 and Windows 10. But even if it does, that doesn't mean all your gaymez and software will be ARM compatible, because this is not how architectures work.

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>>57981948
>It was a thing for a while, and then it was dropped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_GlGglbu1U
>5 days ago
Get with the times, fagmeister

>>57976951
Yes. But it's still pretty buggy (screen rotation doesn't work on most distros, no sound, no battery indicator..). However gpu acceleration works and there's a video of someone playing the Linux version of Rocket League on it.

Pyra is going to have better Linux support but I might get the GPD win as well, just because it's such a nice novelty to have an x86 CPU.

>>57976895
You can replace the battery if you take the back off, tho.

The Dragonbox Pyra looks pretty cool, IMO I love all this cute tiny UMPCs, wish I wasn't a neet and I could afford them all.

>>57976767
If you like the concept of x86 games on the go you might as well get it, it's literally your only option.

I don't regret it, it's about as powerful as my 3 year old IntelHD3000 laptop and with a big SD card in it I can basically relegate all muh games to it and leave my computer just for work and other tasks.

>>57982093
>Pyra is going to have
If it ever comes out.

>>57981315
yeah they have a very performant arm emulator. i really really want to see tegra p1 running windows on a device with a high quality gamepad controller built in. this is where i could actually see the steam controller paradigm make sense, particularly being able to utilize the trackpads for simultaneous dual thumb input to solve the keyboard problem most handhelds have. you could have slightly more precise mouse control than an analog stick and an actually decent software keyboard. add in a nice big 6-8" oled and a fat battery and you basically have a perfect linux handheld.

>>57983056
I see no reason for it not to. They update fairly frequently.

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>>57983082
and oh yeah someone is already kickstarting something like this but it's not really good enough imo

it really needs at least a pascal based chip to fly and a low res 720p low persistence oled for performance characteristics

>>57981405
The new ARM windows will emulate x86 programs on ARM, so it basically will run most stuff that will run on a PC

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>>57983246
(And everything will be far more intensive than it would of been on an actual x86 chip)

>>57980189
Honestly it doesn't even look bad. Just kinda looks like a slightly chunky DS.

>>57983246
>emulate
>so it basically will run blah blah
>run
run like pentium mmx 200mhz or slower? and what about gpu acceleration?

>>57985180
GPU's are neither x86 or ARM, and apparently the architecture for GPU's used on ARM SoC's are similar to those used in desktop, well for Nvidia anyways.

Honestly I'm not sure how the mobile GPU's on ARM will perform compared to Intel HD graphics or other mobile graphics options.

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>>57985771
If they're just using a straight up VM they are going to have to emulate CPU and GPU, here hoping Microsoft isn't actually retarded but who knows.

>>57985771
okay, gpus are not made in desktop architectures, but will this entire windows emulated x86 machine handle gpu acceleration? like, passthrough thingie? video was showing photoshop running in same windows, so classic full passthrough is surely not the case here

>>57986801
Last time I heard it was not emulation, some kind fancy low level stuff I know nothing about

>>57981315
Yes it's true but currently Microsoft have been working exclusively with Qualcomm so far. I'm sure the Snapdragon 835 will have a fixed module for helping with x86 translation.

>>57986868
If they need to do it on an app-per-app basis like the HP phones are doing it's still going to be pretty lacking in support.

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>>57983174

All the benchmarks they list are at 720p Medium->High Settings, and they manage 30 FPS+ on average. That's good enough for me given they're games like Metro: Last Light and Overwatch. Not 12 year old titles like HL2. I'm sure if you crank it down to low settings at 720p, you'll get ~60FPS on most modern titles. Obviously more on antiquated BS like HL2.

This is what the GPD should have been, IMO
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smachteam/smach-z-the-handheld-gaming-pc/description

embedded APU with a low TDP.

>>57987078
Don't be rood.

The Smach Z is as big as the Wii U gamepad, I love it, don't take me wrong, but I can actually carry the GPD win on my pocket.

>>57987252
>>57981410

It can do both, why limit yourself to only doing one?

>>57981410
>For fuck's sake, this is not for gaming
>It's for gaming in a particular way

What did he mean by this?

Also you're wrong, retard. There's literally no reason paying for hardware like this just to gamestream. Anything can do that. You're paying for a tiny PC (which, coincidentally, can game both locally and through streaming).

>>57987078
The Smach z is so big I'd rather just carry a laptop at that point, the GPD-Win is about as big as I think you can call something a portable.

>>57987078
I was thinking that these seemed really interesting, but at that form factor, I may as well just go for a Nintendo Switch if I want to play AAA games somewhat portably

>>57987378
You definitely cannot use a laptop while standing up, it's a small but real advantage.

>>57987078
30 fps is complete and utter shit. and it isn't just the fps like i said 5.5" is too small of a display for content that was not designed around it. most stuff will just be a gimmick at that size.

>>57977826
>Mediatek

>>57987731
>"I am a spoiled little child"

15FPS gaming master race reporting in.

>>57987078
>20amp power draw
Even the GPD Win with it's 4amp max draw only manages fucking 4 hours of battery life. That is pathetic, considering the OpenPandora easily managed 12. The Smach Z will be d.o.a. if it ever comes out (which is unlikely considering they already failed once).

>>57987945
You don't know how basic technology works and think of everything in terms of gaming, we get it. Now get out.

>>57988097
Their second kickstarter got the funds, and they found private funding too.

>>57988372
Nice empty reply faggot.

>>57988097
>being this retarded
>using amps for power consumption
AMD actually has new APU tech now and it consumes less power than the Atom while providing 10x the performance. Since the Smach isn't small as shit, they can easily fit a 10 hour battery in it.

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Hey guys,

Is there any info/gossip on this thing?
https://www.crowdsupply.com/qutecha/minotaur-one

I'd really like to know.

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>someone is still trying to shill this piece of shit

>>57988912
It doesn't need any more shilling, those chinks are probably already struggling to keep up with the demand as it is.

>>57988871
Looks ugly as shit for a phone, but if they can fix that they definitely have my attention.

>>57977590
What fucking 3DS do you have? My iphone outlasts my 3DS by literally days.

>>57989252
This. I'm not getting this slow piece of shit but I can see a ton of people wanting something like this before Sony and Samshit join and make better UMPCs.

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>>57989366
>tfw still no sequel to this.

At least as far as i'm aware. If we lived in a different world the GPD meme wouldn't have a chance at all. But as it stands it is the only one in competting in this fight.

bamp

>>57976767
if you need a handheld console for old windows games go for it. Anything else you are better off getting an actual handheld console like a 3ds or a gamepad to your smartphone for emulation of older consoles.

>>57976767
I might pick up the next version if they ever make one

>>57991818
I remember hearing something along the lines of there being no more atoms coming out so they don't want to do any more. Kinda stupid since the got a fair bit of popularity from this and I would probably buy the next model too, just give this one to my son when he's old enough

I'm probably going to pick one up. Being able to play Skyrim, GTA V, and Fallout 4 anywhere is too tempting

>>57976767
I want one to play my Steam games everywhere. But I'm poor.

Oh well.

>>57992297
RDP can yield surprising results sometimes. VNC as well, but it's not nearly as elegant desu.

>>57977590
Like every 3ds? I don't know how they fucking managed it but my n3ds I literally bought two months ago only lasts 2-3 hours with brightness on high and wifi on.

>>57992991
>I don't know how they fucking managed it but my n3ds I literally bought two months ago only lasts 2-3 hours with brightness on high and wifi on.
They continued to use the old as fuck ARM11 arch which was released in 2001 and they clocked 4 of them to 800MHz. It was never designed to be clocked this high, couple that with a tiny 1400mAh battery (1750mAh on the XL) powering 2 screens and you got a short lasting pile of shit.

>>57992297
To be fair this thing isn't much more expensive than a normie-tier low-end laptop.

>>57993175
He did say he was poor. If you're almost struggling for food, how is he going to afford something that costs a months worth of food in one go?

>>57993316
Neetbux of course.

>>57993316
>$400
>a months worth of food
How fucking fat are you, jesus fuck.

>>57993385
Maybe he just lives in a very expensive country.

>>57976767

I would like one without all the gaming shit (ie: d-pads and buttons and stuff) attached to be honest; are they going to make one?

>>57993646
No, GPD is a gaming focused company.

>>57993646
Actually, the buttons and d-pad work really well for mouse emulation. I have yet to hear how active stylus work on it