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No interest has my vote.
I love my XD, maybe the XD2 will do the trick for me.
But for now I'm pretty happy with the device I have.

Quote from: vcoleiro1 on April 27, 2016, 09:07:32 am

Quote from: Pleng on April 27, 2016, 08:26:09 am

I'm not backing a device on a promise that "we'll add Android later". Had it been a dual-OS device out-of-the-box, or Android only, I'd have backed it.

If you would be happy with an Android only device, then isn't what you are after the XD 2?

Not unless they're planning on putting a keyboard on the XD 2

Oh I see , of course - forgot about that chestnut

I've seen some pretty cheap stuff already (WinBook 7", $70, 1GB RAM, Windows...) so my figuring is that the Win can't be worse than that (which was actually pretty okay).

The last time I ran emulators on handhelds were a Dingoo A320 (RIP battery) and some PSPs, so it'll definitely outperform those. Not sure about native games, I know plenty will run but haven't particularly looked into it.

Granted, I'd say most of the want for this is the cool factor (Clamshell Windows? Old tags like UMPC being relevant? Sign me up!) but I'm sure I can come up with something to do on it, even if it's just Steam In-Home Streaming.

(Steam streaming, strangely, works far better for me than any attempts at Moonlight, so there's that.)

I'm excited to play some low requirement Steam indie games on this.  Stuff like Valids Store, Mercenary Kings, Expendabros, and other metroidvanias and rouge games.   

While I haven't backed the win this is my main hope for it as well. (In addition to some VNs). There's a lot of indie games that I would like to play but not necessarily on my monitor or TV. Some have Vita ports but I prefer the clamshell form factor and there's a lot of PC-only indie games designed for a gamepad.

Why does it matter what it looks like ? As long as the device does what it's supposed to do then who cares. That is some very non productive nitpicking as there is obviously another reason that you don't like the device, care to share ?

Seeing that is like a slap in the face. The CPU socket is right beneath the keyboard's location.
Which also means, the real estate between the joysticks is unused, and they could've moved the menu buttons there without any trouble.
That also means that any heatsink they'll put there will be very thin, and unless it's humongous - it won't dissipate heat properly. I hope they at least have the common sense of increasing its surface area, especially near the tiny holes they call vents.

No way I'm backing something still in the design stages, would need to at least see some sort of working prototype before giving them my hard earned money.
I like the concept but have reservations about the decisions GPD decided to go with, will wait and see how all this plays out.

It's interesting that the power button is flat and lower than the other keys

yes, every day. i'm playing on windows devices from a year ago, and i don?t need a keyboard.

if you prefer to play games that requires keyboard, ok, then you need a keyboard, but most games don?t need a keyboard for proper playing. (of course, i'm speaking about gamepad supported. if you have a device with gamepad, why you want to play a game that doesn't support?)

but, as i said, this is my opinion. i prefer a gaming device focussed on gamepad, without keyboard, becuse is really useless for playing.

I definately agree with you. I feel that they should not have added a key board to be honest.
it just takes away from the gamepad.

Quote from: Made in China on April 29, 2016, 03:02:42 am

Seeing that is like a slap in the face. The CPU socket is right beneath the keyboard's location.
Which also means, the real estate between the joysticks is unused, and they could've moved the menu buttons there without any trouble.

It's an unknown how yet effective their spread design is at cooling but the heatsink should be relatively sizable since it stands the full height of the upper middle quadrant, "drawing" heat from the low side expansive sheet of metal we saw previously, modestly assisted by that dissipation speaker venting. Being optimistic here.

Also, a pic of the XD for comparisons: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLCz4XkUAAAuQ6N.jpg

You see, seeing their previous design, you can tell they're just trying to copy-paste their old heat sink. Look at the heat pipe on the GPD Win's PCB - the golden bar between the analogs - and you you can realize they just rotated their original design 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Also, the speakers aren't going to affect anything more than usual, and they won't even be close to the CPU so it can even be justified design-wise.
However, the GPD Win has a higher power consumption than the GPD XD, so using the same heatsink is probably a pretty bad idea.

My main point, though, was that they could've redesigned their keyboard with ease, and instead they decided not to listen to community input from the get go. I know they only used Indiegogo as an incredibly cheap alternative to a proper pre-order site, but they couldn't even keep the thin veneer of being community funded. It's just annoying.