GPD Win 3: handheld gaming laptop, integrated with buttons and sliding keyboard

If you are looking for a handheld game console but must be a game for Windows 10, GPD Win 3 is such a product. If you look at it, you will only see that this is a regular gaming machine like the Nintendo Switch but in fact, GPD Win 3 is a portable gaming PC running Windows 10.

Below the 5.5-inch 720p screen, the keyboard appears when you slide it up. Fully integrated gamepad with two joysticks, 4 trigger buttons, a navigation keypad and four action buttons.

Heat sink slots are located on the back and bottom. There's also a USB-A port, the power key, a headphone jack and built-in microphone. Below that is where you'll find the speaker, USB-C Thunderbolt 4.0 port and two separate custom buttons. Finally, the fingerprint sensor is unlocked as well as the Xbox switch button located on the top.

This design is somewhat inspired by the Sony Vaio VGN-UX series released to the market in 2006 - a year before the first iPhone. However, this product costs about $ 2,000, runs Windows XP and is very slow.

As for GPD Win 3, the machine has a much better configuration with the latest 11th generation Intel Core i5 (2.4 - 4.2 GHz) or i7 (2.8 - 4.7 GHz) processor and goes comes with 16GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 1TB of memory in PCIe 3.0 SSD, Intel Xe GPU and comes with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0 and microSD card support. Win 3 is also equipped with a dual vibrating motor. Its powerful vibration effect and good vibrations will make you feel immersed in the game.

And yet, the device is also capable of fast charging via the 65W Power Delivery charger. Battery life ranges from 2 to 3 hours when playing heavy games, or 6 to 8 hours with moderate use or 11 hours with light use.

In addition to playing directly on the included monitor, you can attach an accessory to support multiple I / O connections, output to an external display via HDMI 2.0b, Ethernet 1Gbps, USB-C X1, USB-A X3 . Make this machine a miniPC, do heavy office work.

With integrated Intel Iris Xe graphics processor promises to bring the experience of playing the latest AAA games at 60fps because the screen resolution is not too high. Each person can contribute 80 USD until 200,000 USD will start production and then we can value more specifically.

Lesley Montoya

Update 24 December 2020