arcadia wrote:I have researched this a lot, and asked if anyone on here had one a while ago, but that was shortly after the people who pre-ordered them started to finally receive them. I mostly just wanted it to play games as I have a Mac and a vm that has issues with certain things. I also wanted to use it to test the full version of this screen reader that someone gave me. I thought since I might have enough to buy this, it would be better to give the developer a review of the English version using normal windows 10 like most of their customers would have. I liked it because it's so small and I travel a lot. I also like the idea of using it as a media device. However I haven't committed to buying it yet because I haven't been able to feel the keyboard. I assume it's probably not the best typing experience because it's so tiny, but is it workable? Is their an insert or caps lock key or do you need to remap the NVDA key?
That's interesting that you seem to have a version that doesn't have the removable lid. I specifically remember watching a youtube video of a guy showing how he opened his. With games that allow you to use a joystick, can you use the built in sticks or would you still need a separate controller? I have never been a serious enough gamer to look at buying a controller, but having one sort of built in to the computer would be a nice bonus. Do you know of any other computers this size that are close to it in terms of power? I saw adds for one other cheeper competing model, but that used an atom processor I think, and it limited the ability to upgrade the ssd. I think that's all the questions I have for now.
The keyboard is definitely doable. It's a 95% traditional layout. The capslock key is in it's normal place, it works just fine, no need to change the NVDA modifier. The W A S and D keys are raised, there are also standard bumps on the normal f and j keys, they're also on the arrows, which makes it easier to find them. The del key is rite above the enter key. Only thing that confused me at first was that the keys on the left of the space bar aren't the normal layout, instead of alt, win, fn and ctrl, it's win, fn, alt and ctrl. But I got used to that pretty fast. The typing experience is definitely doable, possibly even more if you have a bit more patience than me. I'm still not 100% with it yet but i'm getting there, i can type decently fast with it. The controller layout is a little different, the thumbsticks are inward and the d-pad and face buttons are outward, and l1, l2, l3 and r1, r2 and r3 are all on the back. the l1 l2 and r1 r2 buttons are on top of each other, like a traditional xbox or playstation controller and the l3 and r3 buttons are rite next to them. I got used to it fairly fast. For it's formfactor, it's definitely not matched by anything at the moment.. Yeah, the win 1 uses and atom CPU, with 4 gb ram. IMO 4 GB of ram is kind of constraining. The Win2 has 8, I wish it was upgradable to 16 but 8 is good enough for me. IT also has active cooling, if you remember, the win 1 had a fan switch that you had to control manually. It also used EMMC memory as it's storage, not as fast as the m.2 2242 ssd the win 2 uses. When I get some more cash I also plan to get a 1 tb SSD (if this goddamn shortage would end), a 400 gb uhs sd card, a usb c hub with more parts that you would see on a regular computer with powery delivery, and a nice keyboard. So I can turn it into a kind of Windows Switch. Then I'll delete Windows off my macbook. I haven't tried any keyboard only games with that keyboard though, personally I don't think the keyboard is that comfortable enough to use for that, but for typing regularly it's just fine. I think mine does have the removable lid, it's just that the lip isn't obvious if you can't see it. I had my brother look at it and he saw it, it's inconspicuous I guess. I don't feel comfortable removing it though as it puts pressure on the screen, but maybe that's just me being paranoid. With the built-in joystick, theirs a switch that makes it function as a mouse. When it's to the left, the left stick is scrolling, the rite stick is your mouse pointer, and the r1 and l1 buttons are rite-click and left-click. L2 and r2 decrease and increase speed of the mouse pointer. When it's to the rite it's just a regular xinput device.