Who was this for? - Piccolo by X+ G-Series1 Gaming Tablet

[@graybandit1140]

Honestly, this is the perfect device for your well-meaning grandma to pick up on clearance at TJ Maxx when you asked for a Steam Deck for your birthday.

[@imglidinhere]

This device feels like it was meant to be a 'proof of concept' and the lead-up to a truly awesome product... there's no way they can actually think this is going to sell in any serious market.

[@dilutedoxygen]

Love how the controllers are straight up Legion GO controllers (even uses the same attachment rail) but worse, since they don't have the track pad or any other unique features of it, but inherit all the downsides, like the horrendous ergonomics In fact the shell is almost identical too, just larger, yet somehow having only slightly more than half the battery size lmao

[@jsherm101]

No touchpad on the right so clearly some sort of clone from the odm Lenovo must use

[@borandiUK]

4:35 5000mAh at 19 volts in the piccolo, 4500 mah at 3.7V in the phone. These two things aren't the same. If you want iso comparison, use Wh, not mAh.

[@magfal]

For those playing along at home that is 95Wh for the tablet and 16.65Wh for the phone.

[@MuhammadFirdaus-wo6mz]

​@@magfal 95Wh is absolutely humongous

[@soli-ethd]

It's not 19V, it's 7.4V (as listed on the website), so really closer to 37 Wh.

[@Pasi123]

4:29 It says 7.7V on the battery, 4500mAh / 34.65Wh. Honestly I'm surprised he didn't know mAh can't be compared at different voltages

[@TheCreat]

Yea no idea where the commenter he got the 19 volts, especially considering the specs are printed on the battery and right there on screen.

[@TheRogueBro]

When i first saw this thing, i figured it was for something like game-streaming. Because it doesn't make sense for anything else.

[@CraftComputing]

At $339, it doesn't even make sense for that.

[@TheRogueBro]

@@CraftComputing Agreed!

[@nickp3177]

If the price was lower and the battery life better... and the fan curve wasn't atrocious, it might have a place as a thin client for moonlight. But even then I'm not a fan of the joycon style controllers. Man, i just wish the PS Portal could install Moonlight. If it did I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

[@stevencoad9224]

I bought a refurb 256gb steam deck for $319 a year ago because I wanted to see if handhelds fit my needs & didn’t want to jump in at $700, that’s pretty much where I’d say the performance floor is for a usable handheld. I’d say even full price it’s a WAY better value than this. What can’t play natively I stream from my gaming pc. Why *anyone* would consider a chip with as little graphical capability as the N95 for any resolution higher than 480p boggles my mind.

[@CraftComputing]

480P is even generous. I tried Skyrim at 960x640 and it was still struggling to hit 30 FPS at low settings.

[@TheNightquaker]

Is there a Frieza as well? A Krillin perchance?

[@imglidinhere]

If this device is the Piccolo, what would the _Krillin_ be?

[@Blind-Ambition]

@@imglidinhere something with an exploding battery?

[@imglidinhere]

@@Blind-Ambition Nah, they aren't Samsung.

[@RawmanFilm]

@@imglidinhere In Case of any danger, get the Dragon Balls to revive Krillin - better yet: observe him, while he is getting anxious. You won't have to take long...

[@section279]

Yumcha lol has a inbuilt mips processor lol

[@privacyvalued4134]

Someone in China looked funny at a laptop and a low-power mini PC and said, "Imma make a handheld gaming thingy from those babies." That's what this is. I did just think of a valid use case for this: A trade show kiosk device. Sure you've got power to your exhibitor booth, but want to transport something small, light, and compact that is basically just a digital display and has a backup battery just in case the power fails at the venue for some reason. The odd power dongle all but guarantees it won't get stolen when your back is turned for two seconds. This device weirdly checks all of those boxes. It checks _none_ of the video gamer vibe boxes though.

[@ericdeltoro8484]

I like the tablet form factor, could be compelling if it had more performance.

[@elmestguzman3038]

I find this on odd. Not just everything you mention but going to the site. Why do they list the storage as PCIE? Do they even know what ports they have? One of the pictures shows the ports. They marked the SD card slot as a USB C port, then they inverted the headphone jack and power. On The site they also have an AMD version “upcoming” they should have waited to send you that one….

[@bilditup1]

Kane Head High!!!! Yeeeesssss let’s go!!!!

[@CraftComputing]

Dude, I want more of that.

[@445588997]

I think the dev aimed for gaming but, in heart, they aimed for on-site diagnostic tools... That looks like something a technician/engineer would bring to a remote site for troubleshooting. Add a serial port and maybe a small keyboard. Boom a nice diagnostic computer.

[@pyroslev]

"...efficiency core of a..." I had to pause when I hear that bit.

[@_Turbocat777]

It is def giving Legion go design vibes...

[@forksarefree]

This thing is almost like the portable rig I slapped together using a portable monitor and an n95 mini PC. Difference is the screen size, as I have a 15.6" 1080p monitor.

[@C4103]

I actually use my Switch as a remote gaming device. I have Moonlight set up for both local and remote connection in Horizon OS, and also dual boot Android on it. In Android I can just run Parsec, Steam Link, or anything else really that will run on Android 10. The joycons, wifi and bluetooth all work. The only issue I've had with it is that the wifi adapter is a little slow.

[@Barkb1t]

Dang it...but the beer looked nice!

[@kendb3]

Love the shirt!

[@steadmansmith5591]

Could this handheld be used to remotely operate drones or cameras or to pan and tilt security cameras over a wifi connection?

[@ph33lix]

1:23 ooof, and not because there are any performance cores either!

[@jacobjohnson1658]

the only 2 use cases I could think of would be maybe steam link (if the performance is there) or for automotive diagnostics software. I actually bought a 2nd legion go to use for all my tuning software but realistically I wish the screen was bigger and it's way overkill for the task of automotive programming so that would actually be the 1 good use case for that device that I could come up with.

[@heyhosayso]

Mandatory barrel plug with usb c port on device is really unfortuanate

[@Fast5211]

Honestly really hard to justify going for this even for remote gaming and emulation when there are a plethora of android based handhelds that'll do that for the same or less price as long as you're fine with a smaller screen. I mean the Odin 2 Portal just came out at the same price point and that has a 7" 1080p 120hz OLED screen and much better battery life. Hell, with as good as winlator is getting it probably has about the same capacity to play PC games as well. Definitely an interesting device, but feels like a miss on basically every front.

[@emuboy85]

Is that anything wrong with the video? it looks like the gamma is too high? i checked the other videos and they are alright? is it me?

[@grayphox]

The lack of USB C power input means I would use this at all

[@sda2911]

The lack of usb c power input means you would use it?

[@TheKazragore]

​@@sda2911 I think they just missed the "n't"

[@jothain]

I'm not sure if the legislation is at work yet, but I am quite sure this isn't even legal in Europe because of that.

[@____5837]

controllers look almost identical to legion go ones. about the detatchable being useless, I use them a lot of the time i use it, if you have any surface to put it on, its really easy to just detatch them so you only need to hold the controllers and not the entire device if you dont need to

[@retrosean199]

I wonder how it would have done for Switch emulation. Was that their intended use, but then Nintendo crushed all the Switch emulators before the tablet came out?

[@CraftComputing]

You need Zen2 / Tiger Lake to be fast enough for most Switch emulation. Let alone the UHD graphics, I don't have any hopes of it doing well.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

Not Steam OS, 'nuff said.

[@onswiftwingsofficial]

I wonder if a Linux distro, maybe Bazzite, would improve that battery life. I can't imagine Windows 11 does it any justice.

[@CraftComputing]

While Bazzite or similar would cut down on background tasks, you can't fit physics. Games are going to need the same resources to run, and the battery is still only 34wH.

[@Shimapan]

I swear it looks like they took the legion go controllers, filled in parts of the mold and mirrored the two buttons. Whyyyy this entire thing is "how can we copy the GO and make it worse"

[@lightechoes]

Today by X+! The Mistake!

[@ianthomas1955]

I like your content and i really like the temperature sensor thing. Can someone tell me why the Battery capacity is compared by ampere-hour and not watt-hour? Makes no sense to me. I don't like the "drink like a pro" at the beginning.

[@CraftComputing]

New dual temperature sensor launching soon^tm with PoE!

[@alainmilette6460]

This lost me at n95

[@z1power]

Battery life should be gauged using Wh not mAh. Your phone has higher mAh number but is likely at 3.7v vs this battery at 7.7v. The comparison you did is not correct

[@itsmilan4069]

should have made it an arm pc or better android tab instead of x86

[@LovelyAlanna]

I wouldn't play pretty much anything on my N100 because it's kinda garbage, and they're selling a massive tablet with an N95? that's absurd

[@LovelyAlanna]

btw, the missus wants to play stardew valley? a cheap samsung A9 and an ipega pg-9083s is way cheaper and you'll be able to play that game for a lot of hours

[@floriskooijman6448]

Why did you present it on a box with a ROG symbol 😏? Maybe try bazzite, just for fun.

[@PraetorBeast]

The CPU should about ther with an i5 7400

[@WOLFITTIPS]

Ewaste right out of the box. Would prefer steam deck

[@cuberoundsquare]

just turn it in to a proxmox server if it has iommu bios support

[@markdjdeenix6846]

use case = ewaste

[@rmo9808]

It could shield a smaller more useful piece of tech from having beer spilt on it?

[@ZeronicMatrix]

I've been seeing this unit a lot on Aliexpress, but I ended up with a Steam Deck instead cause it has the software and hardware support I'm looking for. I have a few of the commonly broken parts already on order.

[@NotMuchHere]

s oooo 6 stardew valley days ... (80/13) man thats about a week ... whats the problem? (I see it i am joking ... sdv time ... haha)

[@jsherm101]

This screams "what do we have lying around?" For some ODM in China or Taiwan I think you are too generous about the "what if?" This feels like something designed cheaply with the elegance of a drunk snail Plenty of android devices outperform this device for the same emulation.

[@frankwong9486]

Proof of concept Proofit doesnt work 😂

[@diamondblack3776]

Steaming pos deck

[@ericcarver8363]

I'll stick with the setup I already use: a Razer Kishi V2 attached to a Galaxy ZFold 6.

[@ranjitmandal1612]

Very disappointing 😞