Last year I managed not to buy a new laptop, but this time around I think I'll be forced to buy something new, and I'm kinda torn between an actual laptop with some decent specs and one of them windows gaming handhelds.
I mean, since you can get GPD WIN 4 with Ryzen 7840U, 64 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 4 TB SSD for $1,200-ish... I mean, you hook that fucker to a monitor and it can easily do the job of a decent desktop, plus it's more than capable of emulating anything on the go
https://gpd.hk/gpdwin4
@ThatCrazyDude These things are supposed to run at native resolution of their built-in display, they run hot as hell's potato at higher one. At least this is the actual photo I've seen online of the older model with upgraded SSD: https://social.librem.one/@m0xee/108617566958603005
I don't know whether it's SSD which is to blame or if it's true at all, but it very well might be, considering its miniature size.
@m0xee yeah, I was wondering about that too. But this particular thing is made specifically for gaming, so heavy lifting stuff as far as heat dissipating go, and people seem to be gaming on that without burning their fingers off. I'm guessing it's thick as it is because of the cooling system
@ThatCrazyDude They sure do, but, like I said, it might have to do with 1080p resolution — it's not high for a modern GPU (or APU in this case) and it might look very good on smaller screen, but if your intended use case is hooking it up to external display, it might not work that well.
Anyway, I don't have personal experience with these devices — it's just what my concern would be. Maybe they did do something truly groundbreaking and it won't be a problem 🤷
It looks very attractive otherwise.
@ThatCrazyDude Same problem as with ultra-compact laptops — they might look great spec-wise and they might give you this performance on shorter workload like processing a photo, but thermal design isn't always on par, so if it's high AND constant workload, their coolers just spin up to the maximum and never spin down, and despite even that CPU and GPU might get throttled in about 20 minutes.