Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This is a computer.”.
Let me get this straight. This is a computer, and this is its monitor. This raises a lot more questions than it answers like. What’S a J series Intel CPU and how on Earth did this raise over a million Canadian dollars on Indiegogo people really really small and a mouse? This small look s like this tiny Segway, PDQ, automate patch management and software updates, with PDQ search their library of over 200 ready to deploy applications and install software.
Zero touch from your desk start your free trial at pdq.com LTT holy crap. This thing is really small. It is apparently a fully featured Windows, 10 compatible PC, complete with USBC power in three USB 3 ports, a Micro SD reader, HDMI out and even a headphone jack. I know you can’t take that kind of thing for granted these days, but it’s not even the computer that impressed me the most it’s the accessory package. It comes to us from a company called xdo.ai who completed their Indiegogo campaign way back in 2021, but only now appears to be actually shipping units out to their backers. This thing, in my hand, is an accompanying Pico projector. That seems to have well everything. You’D expect. Hdmi input power, button, 5, volt power in ah little cover for the lens and even a built-in speaker.
If the audio controls are anything to go by and it’s not just that it’s one of those adorable retractable cord mobile mouses Mouse. It’S not going to be a contender for world’s smallest gaming, PC, shout out basically homeless, HDMI to Mini HDMI, cable, we’ll be using that for our setup wow, it comes with a remote okay. What else am I looking at here? Oh some stuff, they seem to be engineering themselves, other stuff. They seem to be pretty much putting a sticker on and if you’re wondering what leads me to the conclusion, this is simply a re-badged product.
Well, for one thing: it’s USBC, which isn’t even compatible with the Pico PC, so it comes with a c to a adapter and for another. Why would you add a Micro SD card reader to a product that has a trans flash card reader I mean hey. Look! I’M not saying no to more expansion. This is a really nice little carrying case, though, if the whole point is to have a little tiny computer, why am I carrying it around in this there’s a smaller version of the case? Whoa? Okay, this is more like it.
I can have my whole computer, my mouse, my projector holy crap they’re gon na have a lot of fun. With this thing. Oh, it’s a battery Bank. Oh no way, I didn’t even notice.
Oh, that is awesome. Um! Oh I’m loving this. Can I get my keyboard in here? I don’t know if I would describe this as the most cohesive ecosystem.
This cable apparently allows you to power both the projector and the computer off of the battery pack. We’Ll take a closer look at that later. First, I want to crack this baby open whoa.
What a disappointment! I brought my little tiny prototype, LTT storage screwdriver. It’S still not really a Precision driver, it’s more intended for hard to reach spaces bummer. Instead of directing you to something you can’t buy, though I should direct you to the short circuit hoodie, oh actually. Actually, that would be way better. Oh, oh amazing! You guys ready for this.
What this is bizarre. They recommend configuring your Pantera PC, not that one different Pantera with a larger SSD than you think you need, which seems to suggest that it’s going to be really hard to change after the fact. If you end up needing more capacity, but in fact that couldn’t be farther from the truth, this is just about the easiest Mini PC SSD, swap that I’ve ever seen three plastic screws one fairly easily removable rubber gasket and then a single screw, it’s right there. This is awesome yup that is about as generic as it gets.
It’S called solid state, drive, lowercase state capital, solid Capital Drive, you might say it’s a solid Drive, no company that I recognize on either the controller or on the nand flash, and it does not have a dram cache, though. That doesn’t really surprise me at the price point for this system, aside from being extremely small in size, it’s extremely small in price. It should be noted, though, that that’s early bird pricing, if you gave them your money a year and a half ago, the actual MSRP for these things is going to be 219 for the base model and go up to 399 for the 8 gig ram. One terabyte storage model: oh there’s little plastic pins. No, this isn’t so bad. I won’t break it.
Don’T worry! I’M not gon na break it! Jake! Oh hey! There! We go! Oh, my God! This thing is so cool. There’S our CMOS battery. It’S got a mid frame to separate the two boards from each other.
This appears to be the i o board if the label is anything to go by, this appears to be a Micro, SD card reader controller right here, we’re looking at a real Tech chip of some sort. If I had to guess I’d, say that’s to do with the onboard audio USB 3, no idea, though I suspect at least one of these ribbon cables, is carrying a pcie by four signal for this m.2 slot. It’S Seda, oh, oh boom. That reminds me of what the heck is: an Intel J series CPU.
What we’re looking at in here is a quad core CPU that runs it up to 2.7 gigahertz Burst 2 gigahertz base, meaning that this thing could actually be reasonably capable, if only I could get at it. Ah, I see the screw model is the Celeron j4125 and it is obviously designed for extremely low power applications. It only supports a maximum of six pcie Lanes at Gen 2 speeds in spite of being actually relatively current product and it sips power at a 10 watt. Tdp, in spite of its 14 nanometer manufacturing process, there are a couple of smart things I see in here.
First of all, the wireless and Bluetooth chipset here has the antennas glued onto it, not in a like malicious anti-rite to repair way, but in a hey. We really don’t want these to come loose in shipping, because this is going to be a real nightmare. This is super cool cool and then the air intake is basically handled through a grill right here that has a little stopper to make sure that it never gets compressed and blocks the fan from spinning and then there’s a tiny, tiny up. Just enough, I guess, to get air to that 10 watt CPU that can then be exhausted out the side of the unit through uh.
Yes, this vent hole. I can’t believe how much computer is in here. My gaming desktop when I met Yvonne, was in a Silverstone tj07 and had a quad core CPU and 8 gigs of RAM. What is this for lighting? It has lighting nice.
This is awesome. It’S shockingly serviceable. You know what Jake this m.2 slot is not keyed for SATA. Only there’s no way that they would. They would just use a SATA key to m.2 slot wow, it’s so little! Oh! No! This is too small. You know you know if I just put it in here, I put a little one: terabyte Sovereign Gen, 4 Drive it’ll, probably work. Oh, I can’t use the keyboard in the playhouse because it’s Bluetooth holy no way running into my windows installer, which is good whether or not it’s going to detect the nvme drive is a whole. Other story come on, ah drive not detected portable.
Oh look at that. It’S got. The blue lights, got a little cooling fan in there and watch this boom taller tripod. Oh yeah, oh yeah! It’S got Auto Keystone uh, it’s not the brightest thing ever, oh no way. The projector is also running. What Android? I guess.
Oh there’s! No batteries! In the remote for the projector, thankfully I have these handy dandy buttons on the top shut up. Is this a mouse? It’S a mouse. It’S a mouse! Andy! It’S a trackpad on the top.
Are you kidding me? Yes, I have a focus wheel. Oh that’s sharp! Oh no way I could rear project and then I could put this in front of me and point it and sit behind the curtain. Oh there, it goes given that it took a full minute to get to the sign in screen.
I think I’m done with the Android aspect of the projector: let’s switch to our HDMI input and try our Pico PC. Okay, I’m triggered by the fact that their USB ports are upside down of what is normal, we’re having a very hard time getting clear text out of this projector. The issue is that the native resolution is 854 by 480. wide VGA, I’m imagining a d sub connector walking through the Halls just getting wider and wider uh. This mouse wheel does not have a oh, it does have a middle click. That is the heaviest middle click.
That’S usable, that’s usable, I mean the enter key is not really where it’s supposed to be, but it’s usable. Would I take this to a coffee shop, not unless I was trying to start a conversation with all the dudes with facial hair there and the projector is way louder than the computer. Their Indiegogo is amazing, a new era of personal computer, New Era Jake. Why would you build a computer when you can have this perfect for work from home? Use your expandable storage, 4K UHD video output works as a game center. Note, they don’t say gaming, PC yeah. I don’t think we have enough CPU to even like download it. Oh wow, okay, okay, we’re looking at about 60 CPU usage downloading at 150, megabit and more impressively. Our poor SSD is at 50 usage, just downloading Counter-Strike to be clear. If you wanted to use this as a thin client for streaming say, for example, with steam link, I don’t see any reason why that wouldn’t work with reasonably current HD, graphics, HD graphics, though it’s only downloading at 10 megabytes, a second look, it’s not about being privileged Or whatever it’s about the capabilities of the product, it is only 10 megabytes.
A second not 16., when the cable is plugged into can carry 115. okay. 122.
Then, if you want to be super super, this SSD may be slower than a hard drive. Okay. Here we go CS source.
What kind of FPS? Let’S go foreign? How did he know? I was using this computer. Oh come on Hacks! Oh, my God. I just got headshots. I can’t even see anything come on. The latency is actually not bad, very usable.
Oh, my God, you can’t be moving the display around while I’m trying to game here. I could get one kill. Okay, I’m gon na get one kill. No now come on they’re everywhere.
I can’t even tell what team people are on, though everything’s just a moving black blob, okay TV like like that BBK like one plus BBK. This is pretty slow for a wired connection. Can we watch a 4K video though the answer is yes, while I can’t say that I would necessarily recommend the projector as anything more than a toy for the kids, or I mean I guess their pitch, for it is it’s for in an emergency, doing a presentation Or something like that, the computer itself actually kind of an interesting value proposition. Obviously it’s underpowered compared to other small computers, but it’s also underpriced compared to other small computers. There are performance deficiencies, the SSD isn’t great, the CPU leaves a lot to be desired and, frankly, the fan on it isn’t exactly silent, but at the cost and size its competition is probably closer to an Intel compute stick than it would be to a full-size desktop Pc or even a laptop and if all you’re gon na do is watch YouTube videos and do basic word processing. There is no reason that especially the windows, 11 compatible version couldn’t last you for years.
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