The Smallest No-Compromises Laptop

[poochyena]

5 hours ago, WereCatf said:

Sounds like your HW-accelerated decoding might not be working correctly. My 8700k clocks all the way down to 1GHz and uses ~3% when watching 4K, for example, with the GPU-decoder showing about 35% usage.

ideas to test that? 4k60fps videos lag slightly for me since it uses nearly 100 cpu usage and ~15% gpu. I have a gtx 980. hardware acceleration seems to be checked in firefox.

[FakeNSA]

So @nicklmg, I watched this while I was really tired, and as such might have missed it, but it doesn't seem like you mentioned the battery life of the device anywhere? Seems like an important detail to note, and one that would significantly affect my purchase decision.

[Granular]

Considering it's thicker and longer than the laptop, I'd say that carrying that dongle is as cumbersome as carrying another laptop of that size with you. I'd rather just have a bigger laptop with more IO.

[WereCatf]

2 hours ago, poochyena said:

ideas to test that? 4k60fps videos lag slightly for me since it uses nearly 100 cpu usage and ~15% gpu. I have a gtx 980. hardware acceleration seems to be checked in firefox.

The GTX980 doesn't support decoding VP9 in hardware and that's your problem.

[Coder-Erik-lu]

i don't think this small guy will comfortable me , i like the 'big monsters ', E-ATX chassises, RGB water-cooling ，big monitors , balabala, after all , l like big ones

[RejZoR]

10 hours ago, biohazard918 said:

Netbooks are a sub category of laptop. Generally speaking it is a small (sub 13 inch) cheap laptop with an atom class processor. They were all the rage a number of years ago before mostly disappearing because they are pretty crap. The modern equivalent would be a chrome book which are generally much better devices because cheap low power cpus have improved a lot and chrome os is much lighter weight then vista or windows 7 were when netbooks peaked in terms of popularity.

 

EDIT: The asus line of EEE PC machines were a pretty common example. They were also known for having really good battery life for the time. Like 10 hours.

 

They are still useful although disappearing. I've had ACER Aspire One, then HP X2 and now I'm on ASUS Transformer. Touch screen and ability to take screen off and use it as pure tablet or rotate the screen around is what's most useful for me compared to old pure laptop ones. Touch is just so convenient for a lot of things where touchpad is just too clumsy. And you don't need keyboard to do it.

[Kroon]

10 hours ago, biohazard918 said:

3840 by 2160 is 4k. It is a 16 by 9 aspect ratio

 

10 hours ago, Dredgy said:

3840*2160 is 16:9. 

 

Sorry to both of you, was really tired last night when i wrote that. 

 

LTT videos are 3840x1920 (2:1).  I get huge black bars on my 16:9 monitor.

[Luscious]

On 7/13/2019 at 5:30 PM, biohazard918 said:

As for the surface go. That is a much slower device. Yeah they are both 2 core 4 thread parts but the surface has a pentium. That means no turbo boost so 1.6ghz is all you get. I have a passively cooled device with a core m and even under a sustained heavy load it is 1+ ghz over it's base clock. you are talking about roughly halving cpu performance. The surface also maxes out at 8gb of ram and eMMC storage that maxes out at 128gb. Oh and the surface has basically no io other then its single type c port. Its not really a comparable device imo.

Yeah, I was kind of figuring that out, with a better integrated graphics solution as well. Never mind that the GPD can be taken apart and serviced, which the Surface GO can't.

 

Still though, it's a $700 tiny laptop. It's almost like they're trying to resurrect the netbook which has been dead for years. It's a niche item.

[driftz240]

On 7/13/2019 at 9:38 PM, Kroon said:

No clue what they are recording at but they release videos at 3840×2160 witch is 4:3

My guy do you even know what 4:3 even looks like.... or which "which" to use in a sentence...

[Nena Trinity]

On 7/13/2019 at 9:10 PM, nicklmg said:

Check the GPD P2 Max out on Indiegogo: https://lmg.gg/8KV5s

 

Buy other GPD products on Amazon: https://lmg.gg/8KV5t

PIA SHILL! O3O (JK LMAO)

[Brad Man]

On 7/13/2019 at 3:52 PM, SenKa said:

Linus, what USB-C hub do you use? I need one for my laptop!

Bump - I have the same question

[ImAlsoRan]

On 7/13/2019 at 4:24 PM, Luscious said:

This shows promise except that I'm hesitant backing any campaign. I think it's time for GPD to get away from crowd funding and commit to retail. The company has successfully crowd sourced more than one product already. The engineering, R&D, tooling+manufacturing, parts sourcing, PR/marketing etc. is already in place for them. If they still need to be raising money to cover their cash flow then either they are being misleading about their cost, they are not confident in their product or they need a better way to figure out demand and consumer interest. It's one thing to generate hype and another to bring to market a supported product.

 

Back to the topic though, the elephant in the room here is the Surface GO. This really needs to be put up against it for a fair comparison in my opinion, and I don't mean Windows 10 S versus regular Windows or the price difference between the two units. Real world tests like web browsing, using office, watching a movie streaming over wifi, Skype calling (I really hate Skype lately), external connectivity and display quality. Those are the things that would be important for folks looking to get serious use out of it. Then you can compare battery life, thermals, noise, size and weight.

 

I feel this needs a follow-up video. How about it Linus?

This is how Pebble died!

[ImAlsoRan]

23 hours ago, Nena360 said:

PIA SHILL! O3O (JK LMAO)

You’re obviously new here.

[Kroon]

On 7/15/2019 at 5:29 PM, driftz240 said:

My guy do you even know what 4:3 even looks like.... or which "which" to use in a sentence...

 

Just right clock on the video select "Statistic for nerds" to see for your self.

 

About my English, it's my third language so yes mix up words sometimes.  At least I get the fact about resolution right ;) 

[driftz240]

2 hours ago, Kroon said:

Just right clock on the video select "Statistic for nerds" to see for your self.

I did... and.... it just shows you your monitor resolution and the resolution of the video so i dont know where you got the 4:3 aspect ratio from unless you have a 4:3 monitor.

 

2 hours ago, Kroon said:

About my English, it's my third language so yes mix up words sometimes. 

My apologies, i didn't know and missed that you were from sweden.

[Kroon]

3 hours ago, driftz240 said:

I did... and.... it just shows you your monitor resolution and the resolution of the video so i dont know where you got the 4:3 aspect ratio from unless you have a 4:3 monitor.

 

No: You get 1280X640 as current/optimal resolution because you have selected 1080p in YouTube.  Select 2160p instead and watch the numbers.  Yes you can select 2160p even if you only have a 1080p monitor and yes you will get higher quality video.  It have something to do with compression but I don't know more that that, Linus spoke about that in a WAN show few weeks ago.

 

Anyhow the current/optimal is that the video are uploaded as. The view portal is how big the video are on your screen.

3 hours ago, driftz240 said:

My apologies, i didn't know and missed that you were from sweden.

 

No problems, just wanted to let you know.  I rather speak and write Danish, Swedish or German. I know my English isn't the best but I'm trying to learn.

[driftz240]

10 minutes ago, Kroon said:

You get 1280X640 as current/optimal resolution because you have selected 1080p in YouTube.  Select 2160p instead and watch the numbers.

It was 720p and i cant watch any resolution above 720p as the computer im using right now cant handle it because its a Single Core, Dual Thread Celeron from like 2013 lol.

 

10 minutes ago, Kroon said:

Yes you can select 2160p even if you only have a 1080p monitor and yes you will get higher quality video.  It have something to do with compression but I don't know more that that, Linus spoke about that in a WAN show few weeks ago.

Yeah i think its got something to do with downsampling... idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

I am currently using an iPad 6th Gen which has a 9.7-inch display for which (lol...@driftz240) I have bought a cheap Chinese keyboard that turns the iPad into a clamshell device. This setup is similar to the GDP P2 Max with a slightly bigger than their 8.9-inch screen but also not forgetting that there was the Apple tax I had to pay for the tiny 128GB internal storage.

In comparison, being that this is my only Apple device there are times when certain pieces of data get stuck on the iPad which is infuriating and a plus for the P2 Max. However, the setup I have has a keyboard that has a backlight, something that is not mentioned (unless it was missed) in either the video or the campaign page? I mean even this cheap Chinese “Bluetooth aluminum keyboard smart case stand cover” has a backlight, so I would not back it!