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New products and alternatives / GPD micro pc 2 - techspot news
« on: July 11, 2025, 03:59:23 pm »
https://www.techspot.com/news/108632-gpd-micropc-2-495-pocket-sized-pc-intel.htm

GPD MicroPC 2 is a $495 pocket-sized PC with Intel's new Twin Lake chip
First update in six years for the 7-inch Windows (or Linux) 2-in-1
By Daniel Sims Today 8:13 AM
GPD MicroPC 2 is a $495 pocket-sized PC with Intel's new Twin Lake chip
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Why it matters: GPD has spent the past year updating its various ultra-portable PC models to AMD's Ryzen AI chipset, substantially improving their gaming and AI performance. Although the company's latest product, the MicroPC 2, instead uses a low-power Intel Twin Lake CPU, it shares the GPD Pocket 4's updated design at half the price.

Pre-orders for GPD's upcoming MicroPC 2 are now open. With shipping set to begin in September, early-bird pricing for the 7-inch Windows 11 PC with a swivel display starts at $495, around half the cost of the company's other 2025 handhelds.

Starting with last year's GPD Pocket 4, the Hong Kong-based ultra-portable PC maker has rapidly released new models in multiple form factors featuring Ryzen AI 9 processors and Radeon 800M series GPUs. Although the lineup offers better-than-Steam-Deck performance in variants resembling a Sony PSP or a nano laptop, they typically cost over $1,000.



Users waiting for an update to GPD's sub-$500 model from 2019 receive a substantial spec upgrade with the MicroPC 2. Like the GPD Pocket 4, it features various modern expansion ports, a fingerprint scanner, and a touchscreen that turns 180 degrees and folds over the keyboard, essentially making it a pocket 2-in-1.

Although the new Intel N250 Twin Lake CPU maintains the original MicroPC's 4-core, 4-thread arrangement, the boost clock frequency increases from 2.6 GHz to 3.8 GHz, while the L3 cache expands from 4 MB to 6 MB. According to GPD, the MicroPC 2 quintuples its predecessor's Geekbench 6 Vulkan GPU score and exceeds the older model's single-core CPU score by more than an order of magnitude.

Additionally, the newer model supports up to three 4K 60Hz external monitors through an HDMI 2.1 port and two DisplayPort 1.4 USB-C ports. Two additional 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ports are also included.

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The 1.08-pound, 6.74 x 4.36 x 0.92-inch pocket PC comes with 512GB of storage as standard and supports expansions through PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs and microSD cards. The only available memory configuration offers 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM.

Although the MicroPC 2 ships with Windows 11 24H2, it also supports version 6.14.3 of the stable Linux kernel, allowing users to install Android, ChromeOS, Ubuntu, Debian, and other distros.

GPD's spec sheets compared the 2019 model favorably to the original Microsoft Surface Go, and the MicroPC 2 might have more significant advantages over the Surface Go 3. It has a higher-resolution touch screen, 2-in-1 functionality, and more ports in a package that is nearly a pound and a half lighter and hundreds of dollars cheaper.

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OESF Wiki / Re: A grand repository of Gemini how-tos is needed
« on: August 07, 2023, 01:20:20 pm »
BTW, rather than make /var/log be a symlink, it's better to use "mount" with the "bind" option, so that a different file system is mounted over the top.

that way if there's a problem with boot, there's  a failsafe as the /var/log directory will still work. Add a startup to do the mount-bind and then restart the syslog process and/or systemd journald so as to drop the file handles on the normal /var/log and use the new file system.

so something like
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mount -o bind /storage/external-sd-card/var/log /var/log
systemctl restart syslogd
systemctl restart journald

just my 2c

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Zaurus - Hardware discussion / Re: Which CF WIFI card is supported.
« on: September 19, 2021, 03:39:09 pm »
I tried searching for 660W and other things and couldn't find the thread that it might have referenced. Any ideas?

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There's different distros for the Zaurus and there's different package types.

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General Discussion / Re: surrendering domain zaurus.org.uk - any takers?
« on: August 31, 2021, 06:00:55 pm »
p.s. I'd even be willing to give you shell access so you could manage the website, by logging into my VM hosting the web service, until you sorted out your own host. I use lowendbox blog to find cheap hosting.

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General Discussion / surrendering domain zaurus.org.uk - any takers?
« on: August 31, 2021, 05:59:04 pm »
I've had the domain a long time but I've not had a Zaurus for a long time (my last working one was stolen long ago), so I was thinking it's probably time to give up the domain, ideally by handing it over to someone else who will run a website on it and host the downloads I've stored there a long time.

I checked the web access logs and the only access has been search engine bots.

I just don't want the domain to fall into the hands of advertising spam services.

There's four weeks left before it needs renewing. If you want it, create a login on Godaddy and I will get them to transfer it you your account.

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General Discussion / The 8-bit guy retrospective on portables
« on: January 23, 2021, 07:24:37 am »
This makes me feel old!
https://youtu.be/d3NIe1jTZMc

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New products and alternatives / DIY: Raspberry Pi HPi95LX
« on: December 26, 2020, 10:38:47 am »
https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/raspberry-pi-hp95lx-cyberdeck-project

"Raspberry Pi HPi95LX Project is a Retro PDA Masterpiece"

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Did you sell the HDMI adaptor?
Thanks

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For Sale / Wanted / Wanted: Gemini HDMI cable adaptor
« on: December 05, 2020, 06:47:53 am »
Hi,
I'm looking to buy an HDMI cable/adaptor did a Gemini.

I'm in the UK, near Cambridge.

Thanks

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / Re: speakers out of phase?
« on: December 05, 2020, 06:42:11 am »
I hadn't used my Gemini much this year and it was badly out of date, but I just started a new job and needed a device I could sign into the company Microsoft account which can be wiped without grief if necessary.

I flashed my Gemini with the latest dual boot firmware, Android and debian, and the speakers are still out of phase, so I'm actually annoyed that Planet didn't apply the patches required to fix this problem. A simple control panel option to toggle speaker phase would be ideal.

I'm halfway inclined to see how easy it would be to open up the G and resplice one of the speaker connections, but then I might have to undo it if Planet apply the patch without it being a user setable option.

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It looks pretty cool. The fact it's modular and upgradable really appeals.

I bought a PineBookPro because pine64 published the full specs and everything, hardware and software, is open-source. They're also providing upgrades for the old pine book.

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New products and alternatives / Re: One-Netbook A1
« on: November 17, 2020, 03:09:41 am »
Looks like a pretty sweet portable device, copying ideas from the gpd unit which had a serial port
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-micropc-6-inch-handheld-industry-laptop#/

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