GPD Win Max 2 Review: A surprisingly qualified laptop computer that doubles as a laptop letter

since Nervousness The science fiction world was taken by the storm in 1984, and the conscience of computing for “CyberDeck”-ultimately in the portable personal computers to browse the world and piracy. Usually, they are DIY. But the 10 -inch GPD GPD is the closest that I saw in CyberDeck on the shelf on the shelf.

It is far from the best laptop or mobile games. It is a comfortable compromise in Five waysAnd the web camera is garbage! It is also a mobile computer dream. It multiplies as portable games, as control and buttons clips are smuggled in hidden cabins. It chooses optionally as a computer game computer computer, with a rare Oculink port It allows you to connect EGPU fat. It has more volume outlets than most small laptops you can dream of, double SSD openings, and at least 32 GB RAM.

Perhaps most importantly, it contains the most efficient keyboard that you used on a small computer, with a close chest learning curve. I write every word you read now, in my regular speed, on Win Max 2. I spent many full days of work from the 10 -inch notebook, and everything is treated. I have been released Today’s talk, I am dealing with the video On this small computer.

GPD has been built small laptops about a decade ago, and this person is interestingly close to something that I might actually pay – if I can only persuade the company to change some of the main things.

On paper, it appears that the GPD Win Max 2 should be at the upper level of Honehels. You can get your choice of AMD’s HX 370 “Strix Point” or Ryzen 7 8840U chip, up to 64 GB of memory, and 4 TB of storage, and a high -resolution screen 2,560 x 1600 watts per hour covered with everything.

But using it on the sofa, in bed, and on flights to and from Japan, the games were more embarrassing than I expected.

Once, I am not talking about How can the windows be terrible! Through a 10.1 -inch touch screen and a full keyboard, it is a rare mobile system as it is easy to manage from Microsoft, and is easy to benefit from touch screen buttons and pull windows around them. (He still fights with sleep.)

I am not talking about weight 2.2 pounds-while my arms Do You get tired of keeping it like the Nintendo key, I can usually open the laptop hinges, call it on my chest, or go a little bit in my arms.

Even the elements of the game pillow are decent, embarrassing as they might look! You can get two representative sticks that feel associated with the Nintendo transformer, with the exception of the sensors of the resistance hall for the drifters under it. D-pad transparent similar to the PSP responds, as well as the small ABXY facial buttons. You can get Microswitches Clicky under the entire bumper. Only the players feel a little weak.

No, the main problem is that Hold These are the control of the game pillow, you should grip the strict aluminum structure and resin from the laptop, which has no real wet to isolate my hands from the courage that is dissolved from the mobile. I can feel that every vibration of fans travel through my fingers, in my wrist. It is an indescribable strange feeling! I asked GPD, but the company’s proposed fans’ amendments were not determined. The replacement unit was the same problem.

The second pain point is the screen. 2560×1600 is far Many pixels for AMD portable chips to pay in extensively intensive games – and because GPD chose a fixed screen 60 Hz nothing smooth as in 90 Hz and 120 Hz VRR like Steam Deck OLEDand Asus Rog ally xOr Ayanio 3. It is a good show of productivity or watching movies, especially given DTS DTS: X Digital Sound DTS from Win Max 2, but I will no longer buy a fixed -ups of 60 Hz.

At least with the AMD 8840U and 32 GB at least, it’s not always faster in games than $ 800 Asus Rog ally x. Although it seems that it has a performance feature at 15W, the battery life is still irritated, as it has a smaller battery.

With X ally, I got more than eight hours of magic poker game PatroMy best tests in my baccalaureate for this mobile because it is intense; MAX 2 enables only five hours and 22 minutes on charges. I also saw only two hours of Jawhar armored 6Equally with the steam surface, but the X ally can get nearly three hours. In addition, you can drain the Win Max 2 battery in an hour and a half with more intense games if you try.

Unlike Nevertheless, you can play on the stairs table on the stairs table, as I did on my trips. The control stick and the buttons are still accessed, as well as a full keyboard. During the past month, I almost hit Laureli and laser eyes Play exclusively on Win Max 2, and move between the laptop and the hand, the wireless and wireless.

This is before you think about that You can really connect the RTX 5090 external graphics card berth In this thing. Just know that Oculink products, unlike USB-C products, are not hot. It should be completely operated before raising the cable, or in risk of damage.

This is the Max 2 victory as a gaming machine. A laptop, it’s the same story largely: uniquely interesting to collide with ugly palaces.

Don’t even think about buying MAX 2 victory for your zoom calls and teams, because it contains one of the worst web cameras you felt – and I say that after you suffered from the Notehair webcam on Dell XPS 15.We wrote a full story When this error has been fixed.) The joint camera of the Win Max 2 is very low so that writing for your colleagues appears as a giant spider fingers that invade the collective call.

In addition, the camera optics are very bad. One of the colleagues said: “You are a beautiful person, but it is unreasonable to look at you through this webcam.” Another is called the microphone.

If you plan to fix this using an external webcam, you can also add a travel mouse to fix the other large palaces. The touch board width is only 2.7 inches (70 mm) and a depth of 1.6 inches (40 mm), and I put embarrassingly over the keyboard instead of below, which makes me extend so every time. It is physically clicked, but it is terrible when clicking and moving. I never met a laptop that needs A Thinkpad Nub more.

Good news: Win Max 2 has a lot It is practically any peripheral that is interested in adding it.

Should GPD have sacrificed some of these ports to make the brave win 2 thinner? I don’t think so, although you should know that it will not fit precisely in many laptop sleeves. But GPD can give up the SSD bays and the modem of the additional battery capacity. I just get 5-6 hours of working on a shipment, not enough for a full day of work, but the largest battery looks possible with some design modifications.

Therefore: the battery, the webcam, the best Photos, the vibration, and the variable update screen. Next, GPD may have a small computer that I can recommend with sincerity.

Photography and video by Sean Holister / The Forge