GPD Pocket 2 Amber Black Mini Laptop Ultrabook ; with Core m3-8100Y, UHD Graphics, 7" Display ; 8GB RAM, 256GB Storage ; Dual-Band Wi-Fi, BT [PCKT-2-M3-AB]

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GPD Pocket 2 Amber Black Mini Laptop Ultrabook ; with Core m3-8100Y, UHD Graphics, 7" Display ; 8GB RAM, 256GB Storage ; Dual-Band Wi-Fi, BT [PCKT-2-M3-AB]

GPD Pocket 2 Amber Black Mini Laptop Ultrabook ; with Core m3-8100Y, UHD Graphics, 7" Display ; 8GB RAM, 256GB Storage ; Dual-Band Wi-Fi, BT [PCKT-2-M3-AB]

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The GPD XD Plus is powered by a Mediatek MT8176 processor running at 2.1Ghz, the graphics chip is a PowerVR GX6250 running at 600Mhz. There is 4GB of LPDDR3 RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage. The storage can be expanded with a MicroSD Card. The XD Plus has supports 2/5Ghz 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wi Fi and Bluetooth 4.1. In 2006, the concept of Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPC) became a reality with small, inexpensive laptops aimed at the masses. UMPC was a collaboration between Intel and Microsoft to create a new market for peripherals. With touch screens and support for a stylus, UMPC was a precursor to modern smartphones, but without cellular connectivity. Keep in mind that Geekbench is a test that only takes a few minutes to run. I suspect the differences may be greater for benchmarks or applications that require a lot of horsepower for a longer sustained period of time. If you are planning to get this as a primary device just because it’s cheap for a laptop then scrap your plan. You won’t be able to perform a lot of tasks which you can on a laptop of the same price range. There are not enough ports and space to keep all your content and media. Although the device is very attractive, heavy tasks will be a nightmare on it.

I tried the “xrandr -o right” command and I got an error message (I’ve since been told its because Fedora uses the Wayland display server rather than xserver). There were a few problems though. The first is that when you first launch the operating system the display will be sideways.

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For all other tasks this machine was zippy and I would not be able to tell the difference between this and my desktop machine. The GPD XD Plus excels at Android gaming. It can handle the latest games such as Call of Duty: Mobile and favourites such as Space Marshals and Stranger Things: The Game. There is a vast library of games to play on the Google Play Store which you have full access to.

Unfortunately this time there was one key piece of hardware that wasn’t supported out of the box: WiFi. Interestingly, Bluetooth was detected. The laptop’s 1920 x 1200 pixel display looks pretty great, but you may have to adjust the DPI scaling if you want to fit more content on the screen at once… or if you want to fit less content and make text and images large enough to see without squinting. Note that you may need to hit Fn+F12 a few times for this to work. If you accidentally boot into Windows 10 instead, just power down the computer and try again. Still, Ubuntu 18.04 didn’t have either of the show-stopping features that I ran into with the other Linux distributions I tested. Debian notesIf you have been following GPD you will know that they were originally not going to include an optical sensor at all and instead rely solely on the touch screen to select things. I am super glad that they did not go down this route, navigating a full Windows 10 OS (or Linux distro) on a 7 inch screen using only touch is something that I would not wish upon my worst enemy and the inclusion of the optical sensor above the keyboard, while slightly inconvenient make the machine usable.



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