GPD Win (x86 Computer / Palmtop)


*looks at my half paint worn off, non-functioning left shoulder button, cracked case on the lid, buldge under the LCD, snapped off battery clip, staticy volume knob, horrendous wifi strength, has never closed evenly on both sides pandora, remembers the price I paid for it and gives her a hug.

Nothing's perfect, the win's good for what it is I'm sure.

On a lighter note, just got my shipping notification, will be here wednesday, indiegogo order 221. Hooray!
 
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Yep, the Win is certainly a nice device, as long as you don't expect any Samsung / Apple quality (which most people do these days...)

Every niche device I know has some issues, but I never cared about.
Somehow, it makes them special :)
 
Yep, the Win is certainly a nice device, as long as you don't expect any Samsung / Apple quality (which most people do these days...)

Every niche device I know has some issues, but I never cared about.
Somehow, it makes them special :)


You mean like exploding batteries on the Samsung or bendy Apple 6+'s etc etc etc. Perhaps you meant qualtiy like Microsoft, oops oh wait forgot about RROD. Ok SONY then , I mean the PS4 is perfect right? - well except for - http://wccftech.com/top-5-reported-technical-playstation-4-issues-problems-fix/
Generally speaking all tech brands have product issues, with few exceptions, and that includes the big brands.
 
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I meant the case quality, not the technical quality :)

The case is the first thing the customer sees and defines whether a device is "cheap" or not.
 
@matzesu


Well as I said, my WINs case is pretty awesome, it was literrally the first thing I noticed about the WIN, ie that the case felt quality. In fact it was one of my first comment I posted about the WIN upon receiving it.

I have only heard of minor issues with the early batches. After that , it has been good.

Here's my second post upon receiving the WIN.from two pages back -> https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/th...e-palmtop-computer.76762/page-80#post-1396845

"The feel and quality is really good. Feels a quality product. Controls and sticks feel comfortable to reach and use."
 
I found another issue, the display glas is glued to the top case part but on mine the glue probably is not completely dry so the glas started to come off.
Both my issues are easy to fix and also i expected problems with the build quality, so no tears there :-D
For me the Win is nothing more than a pastime until the Pyra is done and it does that well. At least i didnt encounter a driver crash (yet)!
 
Could any of you lucky guys who already got it try to boot a Linux distro and post the output of lspci and lsusb? Let's see about that wifi adapter... Thank you!
 
So far I´m happy with my Win... the build quality of my unit seems to be good. D-pad feels a bit soft, quite similar to my DS-Lite´s D-Pad. Also I had no crashing drivers so far. But I also didn´t put it under heavy stress... a bit of web-browsing, and a few Indie games (Axiom Verge, Kelvin and the infamous machine).
 
In the Dingoonity Thread there is someone who already got wifi working
As far as I could read, only 2 or 3 people have openly tried to run any flavor of Linux, and none of them seem to mention anything about wifi. Could you point me to the source? Maybe I skipped over it! Thanks!

Edit: Still interested in the output of lspci and lsusb :)
 
Thats because i remembered wrong where i read it. It was on reddit: CLICK

"I have got the builtin WiFi working, I believe this is due to a bug in linux-firmware, specifically a file is missing. I have filed bug report but the workaround is to grab brcmfmac4356-pcie.txt from here and drop it into /lib/firmware/brcm. WiFi should work after either reloading the brcmfmac module, or rebooting."

Mine is installing the anniversary update at the moment, as soon as that is done i will boot up a stick.
 
I meant the case quality, not the technical quality :)

The case is the first thing the customer sees and defines whether a device is "cheap" or not.
What did the masses sayed about the Pyra Case on the GC actualy? ^^"

From pictures alone I would say, the GPD Win Case looks and "feels" pretty nice and it's compared "clean" and it has especialy the right colour (the colour that nobody seems to get right for the Pyra ;) )
 
Quality is not defined by color, which is very subjective. I dont really like the Win's as its far too shiny. I prefer a more matte look (and love clear cases!). But in the end i dont care much as long as it does what i want it to.
 
Phawx was faster than the anniversary update on mine..
For lspci and lsusb see this video at 4:09:

If you still need something else just ask, but i will be on holidays beginning tomorrow (at least im finally done updating). Oh do i hate this Windows stuff, but for now thats it.
 
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Anyone know if the mouse sticks/buttons can be swapped somehow? I'm more of a southpaw person, and this mousing-with-right-thumb is getting annoying and tiring. Also I keep right clicking instead of left clicking. I know I can swap the mouse buttons, but this falls apart when I plug in an actual mouse.
 
Well I'm not impressed, it froze on the win activation screen on first boot, froze after sleep and now it doesn't recognise my password, it's only been turned on an hour! I have always said take your time ED but now want my Pyra!! :mad:
 
have played with mine most of the day today, my first impression is its built really well. feels solid, looks good, small and has a nice screen. i like the game controls,

the keyboard is too small for my liking. I wish they got rid of the set of keys on the right and just made the keys bigger.

The win gets disproportionally hot for how powerful it is.it shouldn't be generating this much heat doing simple windows things. I have a 8 inch windows tablet and doing the same things with passive cooling stays at room temp. i dont know what is wrong but it doesnt seem right. the fan even on the high setting seems ineffective at keeping it comfortable. i hope the pyra does better given it only has passive cooling.

im going to look at underclocking i think, it has more power than i need, and I want to extend the battery and cool this thing down.

doesnt have much/any bloatware, so thats nice

going to start working on getting a good linux port working

edit: set cpu cap to 95% ~1500mhz and it stops turboboost and have turned off the fan. So far so good, nice and warm, but no longer hot to the touch, will monitor battery life
 
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