How I could have used every day for the 17 years I ran a data center!!!

Ultimate portable crash cart.

KVM would be more usefull if it was vga in most cases (most modern server still have vga), but the serial port AND network is something that could lead to a new "emergency" device in case of a not responding switch etc.

@@siedenburg1 vga to HDMI is very available.

you just want to game

There are similar products out there that's just screen+keyboard+battery, some with touch. They're significantly cheaper, I think last I saw was around 400€, but the additional utility of it having an actual GP CPU with a decent screen could be well worth the difference.

Wtf do you do?

@@PsycosisIncarnated Aynthing IT service related would quality, really. AT least P2P

@@watcheths Could you share some search terms or something? I’m mostly interested in the KVM-functionality of this thing, but if I can just buy a “dumb” version of this with just a screen+keyboard+battery without losing the portability, that would be my preference.

@@timtim2949 Sadly not really, I found them on Amazon or Ali Express while lookig for a monitor that was easier to bring with me to a LAN party. I remember that I thought it would be awesome for (or at this point instead-of) a crash cart, but I also remember that the descriptions were atrocious.

The kvm functionality isn't that mind blowing. Just use a crash cart, which every data center I've been in has.

@@mattbrown292 yes you are right, could get a crash cart but then you have to go and ask the datacenter and they have to go get one for you. Sometimes you would have to wait if they are particularly busy.

@@mattbrown292 if you're in industrial tech where you actually might have to get on a running robot cart or a crawlspace you don't always have the luxury of a cart and having a small pc with serial, ethernet and kvm capabilities that fits in a cargo pocket or a zippable hoodie would be pretty awesome.

I doubt it can hit 5ghz more than for a few seconds

i don't think it's sipping that little power to punch at 5ghz for a brief turbo

lol i have a 9590 on my desk right now. i call it "hot box"

According to intel we should have 10ghz for 5 years now.

As a datacenter tech, will confirm. Sending the link to this video to my boss :)

@@cxdeblue6055 Business Justification: I want it.

YES. Since the Surface Neo failed to launch. This looks like the next best thing.

Seems like it could be a good fit for broadcasting too.

@@cxdeblue6055 Make sure you let your boss also know how shoddy GPD are with customer support. I have the previous version with a serial port as I thought it would be great in the datacenter and it was for 4 months, then the battery died and it is now a paper weight. I have been trying to get a replacement battery for over 2 years now but GPD customer support just ignore the emails. Also make sure you tell him about the data breach over Win3 customers with faulty units.

Yeap...That first linux challenge video is an EASY example of that. Pop os WARNED him. " you are about to remove essential packages". Linus has BEEN an adult for over 13 years now and has no excuse there. .... ESSENTIAL...it's not fucking rocket science, ( Linus )

Linus Resistant...nothing is Linus Proof

I was expecting him to smack himself on the face when I saw that

@@motoryzen Arch?

Linus resistant, Not Linus proof

Are there any vids talking about mobile live broadcasting? This seems the perfect tool, almost too good to be true (just lacks a SIM slot) but ideally someone would contrast using a microPC to the likes of a Yolobox, while on-the-go.

that's the enteral struggle

This is certainly the best one. Very interesting

When I saw the thumbnail: "Yay! The device of my 2004 dreams" 🤣

500 and i buy it. The entry level one is €667

Might be worth a business case and just have it imaged with the company's Windows image!

The way you know a laptop isn't interesting now is whether or not Linus is in the video :P JK, the laptop could have Linus and still not be interesting (unlike this one) :P JK

@@CreativityNull sorry i didnt quite understand, were you jk?

@@orlagh277 lol I did that because there's always going to be someone who takes it seriously, especially since text isn't a great medium for anything indirect.

TBH I don't even see this thing competing with a laptop, this thing is a tool

@@BrodeyH NO U! JK. Yeah, but as a desktop user and IT guy, I really only view laptops as tools or entertainment devices, not as workstations. This would be something I would lie down and watch videos on or plug into a network switch to diagnose problems or make changes. I have a laptop that also only serves those purposes.

Its not a niche application. There is a big demand for stuff like that in data centers and other admin/maintance jobs , however they ware killed of years ago by film/record producers. Do you remember the capture cards and imputs computers from the early 2000s had ? People used them to record tv shows and that forced the intelectial properly loby to step in. This is why getting a computer with inputs ,rother then outputs is difficult. You are opening yourself for lawsauit by the record/producers for the "possablity of missuse". As you can see the KVM function doesnt block the onboard computer , the video output is shown on a program , just like "Crash cards" so technically you can use it for such stuff.

And with Thunderbolt and external PCI. There's so much possible, daily chain some Black Magic TB4 capture along with 25G QSFP!!!

@@gnarf. Perhaps a different expansion card could be made to capture video?

@@gnarf. lame, I did suspect but wanted to confirm. Thanks!

@@MakersMuse On the website they show the video being passed into a windows program. It may just use an internal capture card.

There is another review that shows obs capture on linux working, so it seems to be just a built-in capture card

literally one of the features i am hoping they end up adding. Especially after I saw this. This is such a killer feature!

@John Smith kvm could be a game changer!

@John Smith with capture cards you're at the mercy of drivers and software being available and working; this is an actual kvm switch, so completely software independent.

@John Smith anything video is notorious for having driver issues even on supported OSs. that it just works has to do with your specific configuration - your system probably uses windows and the incoming signal is likely standard hdmi from source, right? I've had issues capturing converted signals (vga etc) and weird manufacturer specific hdmi that displays fine on a monitor but my capture card couldn't decipher it correctly.

@John Smith so, standard PC hdmi. thank you for describing your setup!

or no usb input...

@@mrcrackerist every single usb device is bidirectional, wym no usb input?

@@alexandrutereify you can't connect two computers over usb.

@@mrcrackerist you cant do that with this either, its just a keyboard passthrough. And you actually can connect two computers over USB, one as a slave and one as master via the OTG USB protocol.

On work we used usb to serial adapters because on our company laptops the serial port was right next to the charger and inserting the carging cable blind often led to frying the serial port with 20V and thus destroying the serial port. The adapter cables are actually nice and cheap

After seeing Scotty on MCM folded into tiny cars, and jamming a laptop in with him? Probably also a hell of a lot easier to use inside of a car!

This'll take the 'Honda Civic with a laptop' meme to a whole new level.

@@MrFastFox666 Ironically i tune mostly E36 BMW's (usually for SCCA ITR class) on a Mustang-150-AWD Dyno (which is what i needed the serial Adapter for), the Thumbnail is my personal Autocross car.......

Definitely, I was thinking about how useful this would be for tuners.

Yeah same

@Poeta Del requinto sup

Same

How much is it then?

@@justniccy2402 around 1300 dollars with module and stylus(perhaps with shipping too?)

AND you can swap it for a mobile KVM if you need to. This... how has nobody done this before?!

Don't get to excited I had the previous version with a serial port and it was great for about 4 months and then the battery packed in and I have been waiting now for a number of years for GPD to send me a replacement. As soon as you get any problems with these devices GPD don't want to know.

@@marksaunders3055 oh I'm not buying this thing, I'm just happy to see Serial on a computer since Serial is very useful to a network admin.

Nobody remembers PC Cards....

@@larsradtke4097 I used to play runescape on a laptop with a large expansion card to give it wifi. The expansion slot idea hasnt been "expanded" on enough to become adopted by a majority.

Actually people thinking framework invented this space is ridiculous. They are just an us company, and that’s their bonus.

@@larsradtke4097 i for one do! our first laptop didnt have wifi so we got a wifi expresscard

@@SimonBauer7 I still have two laptops here for office from 2008, that have USB 3.0 express cards.... VGA card, FireWire, serial.....

Can you tell for what? I'm legit interested what the use case is for this thing

@@dutmala Who are you planning on defying by considering it?

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@@dutmala Scientists would love this. To be able to carry a computer with serial around to all your equipment is perfect. Puts all your data in the one place and means you don't need bulky desktops where you may not have space or budget for multiple computers. In the field as a scientist you often need a tablet style device for data recording but also to annotate the notes. Also in server farms this would be a good portable interface for config etc, especially in systems that don't have existing interfaces

probably for using cash drawer

Yeah I miss my 701, put a heavily reduced version of XP on it.

@@johnd5740 I was feeding mine straight up Windows 8 towards the end... =)

you can buy a modern "netbook" with the same class of cpu if you get either a celeron or pentium class cpu in say the $200-$400 range.

@@Montisaquadeis Of for sure, but I've moved on to bigger 2-in-1s. Still, it was a great device for the time, very useful all around.

I had one of those too, was my laptop through college. I loved it. I kept it in use until the internet out grew it. I keep it around hoping one day I can stuff a raspberry pi in it and give it a better screen.

Under $600 now if you look for sales

Came here for this. Looking at my Pocket 2 on the desk thinking wtf.

I have used my Pocket 2 lots and have found it very handy. But I also backed the Pocket 3 when it became available. 😁

You're right

yeah definitely not the pocket 2 being compared, I have one of those (partly based on linus's review of it) its completely brilliant in almost every way, apart from not having a video out, the 3 having not only a full hdmi out but also IN is crazy, still its starting to be too big to go in ones pocket

Plot twist: you're not an industrial engineer.

@@FlyboyHelosim not yet. I'm studying to be an industrial data scientist. And I DID work in an industrial engineering company lol.

@@spdcrzy best of on your study man!

@@spdcrzy Well, then you did work as an engineer lol.

@@gnarf. Weird. My Micro PC doesn't have these problems. Definitely worth its money. The keyboard has a learning curve (especially when you're trying to use a non-english layout) though.

@@gnarf. GPD's track record with quality control is pretty bad unfortunately. It wouldn't be so bad if their customer service wasn't so god awful

Or just buy an old laptop for peanuts.

I think also made a video about it, I don't remember if here or in LTT, but thanks to bring it to the table because probably not much people knew it, I think the GPD MicroPC didn't have a video input, maybe they take a note for the next version

@@thenoddingturtle Issues with batteries affect all users who did the kickstarter. For a long time I was a nay sayer, because my battery was perfect but 1 day it just randomly didn't work. When I asked for a free replacement GPD told me in no uncertain terms f off. Even though they admit all first gen Micro's have a battery fault.

Good point, I plan to buy one of this but I'll wait until it is available on Amazon. It will be certainly more expensive, but if something is not right I get Amazon refund. This formula worked fine for me so many times...

I’d purchase it with a credit card and contest the charge if it didn’t work.

@@marsrocket I did contest the purchase. Unfortunately, they sided with GPD.

I'd expect this buying anything directly from an international business, especially from China

Yeah this is why I absolutely wouldn't buy a GPD device except through a store in my own country that offers its own warranty. Glad I made this decision as when my Pocket 2 died after 11 months I got a replacement with little hassle.

Simply for a convertible with a stylus and good performance that still has usable keyboard functionality where you usually go with a iPad pro or surface I would take this any time actually if I would have that money

finally someone who noticed that too

I'd love to see something in the 10-11 inch class that isn't a Chromebook, if this was just a bit bigger, I'd buy one in a heartbeat

@@jasonbernal9348 You have "netbooks" running with celeron/pentium cpus that run windows in that size range still. I personally own a 14" 1080p Celeron N3450 (quad core cpu) 4gb ram 32gb emmc Windows 10 based "netbook" myself. Cost about $220 in 2018/2019 and it is basically what those "Netbooks' of yore have turned into and the industry has dropped the "netbook" branding/term even tho that is basically what they still are.

@@Montisaquadeis I'm sorry. I meant to include that they have more than just a Pentium or Celeron processor. I'm probably going to end up with a 13 inch with with i7 or Ryzen 7 when I break down and replace my older Lenovo Yoga

They do have the P2 Max. Definitely looking forward to an up-specced P3 Max (11-12 inches vs. 9 inches maybe?).

@@jasonbernal9348 OneNetbook 4 is a 10" with the same specs.

Me watching on a 32 inch *1080p* monitor. But srsly, I have a large tablet with around that resolution so I know how much better it is. The difference is I don't have my nose glued to the monitor.

put it 10 cm further away :)

*Me watching on 22 inch 1080p monitor...

I'm watching on a old TV with 32 inch and it's 1280x720...

am i the only one who would still put the video quality on 4k even tho my screen is only 1080p or lower?

idk, i have found my gpd pocket 2 to be very unreliable, often booting into the bios or just deciding not to accept keyboard and mouse input, or occasionally just not waking up from sleep at all, requiring you to hold down the power button for like 30 seconds and then reboot.

I think that's the intention of the max 3

3:22

I mean, just get a vga/DP/whatever to hdmi cable and you're golden,

Yeah, but I’m almost certain you could get a VGA port chip. Also reality aside, server should really just start using a more modern standard, I mean spending tens of thousands of dollars on a rack with incredible performance, a HDMI port would be nice.

@@ShadowSlayer1441 if we're changing anything, there's a better port already - let's just make usb c a thing in the rack space

I can't believe it's the first time I seen, heard or thought of such disorder.

The closest you'll get is the Gpd win max.

Yea the Win Max is literally the same SOC but with a controller in it lol (also AMD)

GPD has a lot of other cool stuff. They're legit

This is basically already a Win Max but for non-gaming niches.

Yeah if you dont consider its size it isn't a great value but for such a small laptop its amazing

And the low end one is more like $700 than $1000.

there are cheaper options for emulation on the go

@@domagojbatinic1526 Don't even need a pc for that A phone will do

I don't see why you wouldn't use a Win Max for that instead unless you're also gonna use the modular part of this alot too.

@@domagojbatinic1526 true but if you already had this for other reasons, it would be a good choice

@@rassular Second this. I mean, just for the fact that it has a joypad.

meh all they do is overpriced junk

@@ThaexakaMavro ...exept there arent cheap alternatives to make them "overpriced"

@Tong Zou They're going to say 'Steam Deck' aren't they, lol.

I beg to differ. I've had horrible issues with GPD when backing their Win 3. Leaked other customers emails, BS compensations when they knowingly sent out the wrong chip. CS team....good luck with that!

P2 max is OK, but yeah, no bios updates any more and its cooling isn't very effective. Sometimes when it gets hot, the screen starts to flash and you need to wait for a day or so for it to come back. Also, the keyboard switches kinda suck, especially the space misses presses. Can't beat the form factor though! And the screen is beautiful.

This is a steal for those this was actually designed for. If you think it's not it wasn't designed for you. This is an engineering and networking and Industrial tool not a consumer tool. At that it is incredible

@@Chunkosaurus I certainly don't disagree with you hence why I said I think and why Linus busy aid in the video the things you've echoed here. I can see the engineering and sciences applications where you may actually still encounter the odd serial port 100%, but I'm just trying to wrap my head around where and how this is worth a grand to the company employing a networking professional.

@@MrPipDarty the fact it is a full fledged computer that can also act as a kvm to hook up to a server rack is fantastic. I might push to get one of these for my robotics software team for any field issues they can grab this one and head to the field

You probably cannot, it likely goes straight to monitor, not a capture card

@@hamcha Actually it should be able to, somone on KZfaq showed a video of them using it as an alternative "webcam" input in one of windows default application instead of it just acting like an input for the screen. It should be able to handshake with OBS as an input then. Edit : Here's the vid of the hdmi input working as an application input. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rKeDodl9ybrQpZc.html

@@kylecook4806 Nice, thanks

GPD are getting trashed over their shoddy QC with the Win3 muck up, that was happening before the Steam Deck.

@@marksaunders3055 That is true, but I'm talking generally about all indie devices. Most of the trashing is due to the fact that indies cannot sell them at a loss, nor have a massive marketing campaign, like Valve.

I think you know why microsoft makes service packs for their OS [: Windows 2000 had like 5 or maybe even more service packs.

This is something that you can fit in a network or industrial techs tool bag while not requiring a separate bag for it. That's worth a lot

Why do you need 12+ inch for everything?

I can't stand big laptops. They're meant to be small. I've got an ultra wide monitor for when I want a big screen. My portable equipment should be as small as possible.

For me personally: 15.6 inch = Have to have a backpack 12-14 inch slim laptops = I can carry it with one hand 8 inch = fits in my hoodie pocket, both hands free. Should also fit in my pants pocket too although it'd be a tight fit.

Yeah, I miss that built in PSU from the good old days as well, but, having done thusands of repairs on computers I can see why it is had to do that now, you can still do it on rugged laptops, like the Dell and Panasonic ones, where the casing is large and performance is mediocre or less. The laptops that can sell in large quantities are either so thin that you have no chance to fit the large main inductor coil for the PSU anywhere, or they are big but have to cram a lot of cooling, battery and circuitry to give it good performance that fitting a 200+W PSU inside would make it as unwieldy as a ITX PC with a separate screen, in which case the ITX PC would be a way more cheap and reliable option, making the laptop almost unmarketable unless you need it as a loss leader for something else.