GPD Win (x86 Computer / Palmtop)


Ånei poor speaker has no friend now.

It isn't 30% faster without a fan blowing at it, so its irrelevant to the initial promise what it does under ideal conditions.

Improving performance by adding holes is cheap, engineering the whole baseplate to be a heatsink isn't.

Intel is by no means above fixing some errata, dialing in some new numbers and rebranding. For the purpose of being the same, you can test clock for clock.

In terms of being a capable product, without no noise added, on the advertised games, it looks as if cost overshadows promise. People bought it for the given cost, at the promised functionality.

Cranking out cheap devices, when not in touch with what games are, or what game-playing people want, is very much the modus operandi of chinese and korean companies in this field. Getting technical and promising to be a laptop, on a new architecture, for very low cost… Cut corners all you like, but there is a wall somewhere.
 
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As I said, the heatsink didn't get smaller, plus they added vents. ie The passive cooling only got better. There's nothing more to say.
 
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All videos have been broadcasted without fan, so it's the minimum we can expect from the device, if it's not throttling after 20 minutes. For that case, the fan will be available.
 
Indeed, assuming they haven't been sneaky and filmed those videos in very cold conditions, meaning passive cooling with work much more effectively and stop the chip having to throttle as soon as it would at room temperature.
 
110f is only 43c, that's still way below the rated temperature and a heatsink/fan can easily dump heat into that.
 
Ditnt folowed this Thread much, as its got now 68 pages, and included lots of technical English..
Dos this mean, the Win lost his speakers, because they needet the holes for the fan ??
Im not realy a "Fan" of this Solution..
 
There were originally 2 speakers, but they had to remove one for the fan. So the GPD is now mono (unless you use headphones).
 
Ditnt folowed this Thread much, as its got now 68 pages, and included lots of technical English..
Dos this mean, the Win lost his speakers, because they needet the holes for the fan ??
Im not realy a "Fan" of this Solution..
Not exactly, only one of the two speakers was ditched, so you are still free to be half-fanatic about the whole thing
 
I would rather get a unit without fan but two speakers, as I mostly play Indie games that don't need as much CPU/GPU power...
Really? Weird. I think getting hot and processor being throttled is much worse than having just one speaker, other people might aswell use headphones.
 
I would rather get a unit without fan but two speakers, as I mostly play Indie games that don't need as much CPU/GPU power...

I bet it'll be easy to mod to replace the fan with a speaker. With such a late change they probably kept intact everything necessary for this.
 
I bet it'll be easy to mod to replace the fan with a speaker. With such a late change they probably kept intact everything necessary for this.
Really? Weird. I think getting hot and processor being throttled is much worse than having just one speaker, other people might aswell use headphones.
Idea: Trade fan for someone elses speaker. xD
 
I bet it'll be easy to mod to replace the fan with a speaker. With such a late change they probably kept intact everything necessary for this.

Probably could do that I suppose. You're probably right that the speaker points would still be there.

BTW, any chance you will port Drastic to Windows in the future?
 
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I hope they'll consider to put a stereo speaker.
I am far away from being an audiophile, so this is probably is a stupid question: Can there be something like a stereo speaker ? I always thought that you need a certain distance between two sound sources to enable the human audio processing system to really have a stereo "effect" ?

Really? Weird. I think getting hot and processor being throttled is much worse than having just one speaker, other people might aswell use headphones.
Not quite in this case, as the initial "state" was, that no active cooling was needed.By mentioning less demanding games, I guess ED is with me (in that case), that we both would have preferred the slower SoC that would not require active cooling. Just with slightly different motivations - I don't care much about the second speakers (I rarely used my Pandora without heaphones) but would have preffered the device without the additional weight of more complex cooling and the bigger battery.

Yes there's a good chance.
Oh, did you already think about "platforms" ?: Will it be a "generic" x86 version, or Windows only ? Is any form of DRM planned - like Steam or the Windows Store (no clue if Valve or Microsoft would allow an emulator in their stores)?
 
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