GPD Win Max 2 2025 [AMD AI 370-32GB+2TB] 10.1 Inches Mini Handheld Win 11 PC Video Game Console Laptop 2560X1600 Touchscreen Tablet PC

Never written an Amazon review, but this little powerhouse merits one. This GPD Win Max 2 (2023) is amazing!!! It arrived quickly on a Thursday, just days after having purchased it and I played with it all weekend, getting to know it. Here are my experiences so far:The "bad":Upon first boot up, barely getting thru Windows setup, the screen flickered into a checkerboard pattern (for lack of a better description) and the system froze. This happened several times, barely making it into Windows - not a good sign. The first part of the weekend was spent updating drivers and doing Windows Updates. As time went on it didn't do it as often but still happened, I would see a tiny screen flicker and everything would freeze. I got to a point where I seriously considered returning it. BUT, after watching a ton of Youtube videos, I ended up making two BIOS changes, "Maximum Memory Data Clock Speed" was on auto, I changed it to 7500MT/s and "UMA Frame buffer size" was set to 3G when recommended was 8G for my setup. Have YET to experience an issue since then. Everything else, joysticks, mouse, buttons, trigger buttons, fingerprint reader, touch screen, all worked fine from the get go.The "this sucks but oh well":On all my other laptops, I have been able to boot off the SD Card. The Boot order option is there in the BIOS, but it just won't. USB booting works fine.Ergonomics:It has it's nuances and you will have to get used to it. I have no issues with the mouse or keyboard for general usage, sometimes just using the touch screen instead of the mouse. Lengthy gaming is a bit strenuous on my hands due to the weight, but I have managed just fine for short gaming sessions on Doom Eternal or Batman Arkham games. Anything longer, well you can just use it as a gaming laptop, just HDMI it to a monitor and bluetooth a mouse and you got a "larger" experience. Plenty of ports. This is perfect for me, since I am more a PC gamer than console. Having the ability to swap back to "classic" is great. Plus, this thing is super portable.Performance:Wow. Just wow. I have yet to tweak anything but just as is, it's power and performance are amazing! Steam, PC, emulated games, watching local video files or online videos, just rocking it! Battery life is outstanding, and it charges extremely quickly. I went from 30% to 90% in about 30 minutes with the provided charger. Using it as a normal laptop would be a piece of cake. It never got hot enough on me to be uncomfortable. Fan would go up and down based on performance, but manageable and forgettable. Sound wasn't too bad, but I quickly connected my Airpods so that didn't draw my attention much. I am happy with the 32GB memory option, since most of the games I play, rarely need that much memory. I am not a big stickler for the perfect display refresh rate, or to eek out every last morsel of CPU performance, nor do I tweak every BIOS option, I just want it to run well, which it absolutely does. If I ever get to tweaking all those settings, longevity and performance I'm sure will just make this thing better.Other:Added an M.2 2230 2TB drive into that extra slot just to double the space, and ended up installing another operating system on it for some dual boot functionality. Not sure if I want to add a 4g adapter since everywhere I go, I have WiFi access. Don't own any oculink tech to play with port and how it worked.Verdict:After just a short while, this has become my favorite device. Might even replace my full size multi purpose laptop, since I can easily plug my USB-C dock to it and end up with full monitor, keyboard and mouse. Or just throw it in my backpack and take it anywhere I want.

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS THING. Liked the First one they put out, and this is just so much better in EVERY WAY, sad about the lack of a LAN port, but, we get so many ports. I maxed mine out with 4TB of boot, 2TB of support, and 1TB SD and 1TB micro, for 8TB onboard storage. Just because.I didn't find it uncomfortable to play for long periods of time, and does have outdoor visible (barely, tested it with Dead Cells which is naturally a dark game) screen. Like that you can use touch, trackpad or joysticks to navigate with. Also like when you're in BIOS, you can switch to mouse and keyboard mode, use the LEFT THUMBSTICK and L3 to navigate BIOS since the arrow keys and Enter, make it awkward to do so when holding it.There are a few things to note that are SUPER ANNOYING:1) Drivers, you can go to their site, but they use Google Drive to host the files, which means a lot of people have been trying to download their Win 4 drivers and Google has annoying policies on limiting traffic to DRIVE and will block downloads if there is "TOO MUCH TRAFFIC" , meaning most of the time, you can't download the drives.2) If you do a clean install of Windows 11, say goodbye to the finger print reader, and I have tried many driver install software, they see it, but can't download it. Googling the driver manually to pull from the vendor's site is a no-go as well. Windows won't pull the driver themselves either. And again, GPD Win's hosting is barred by GOOGLE DRIVE TRAFFIC LIMITATIONS.3) For whatever reason, running the RAM at 6400M/T causes it to crash, NO CLUE why. Would load up a game, even if 2D, and CRASH. Just a black screen, nothing shown. NOT A "Blue Screen of DEATH", just black screen. So just drop it one level and you'll be good to go.4) The blue-light filter (which yellows up the screen) has a weird screen door effect. Hard to describe but makes the image ever so slightly grainy.4TB on Win Max 2's 2280 port?I did a lot of research, and there are two limiting factors which I found out after HOURS OF RESEARCH, literally:1) physical space inside, hence why this can only support 1 sided NVME sticks.2) POWER DRAWSo, apparently 4TB draws more power than 2TB does, but there is ONE STICK that I've found and currently employ in mine, thanks to REDDIT, that both sates the power limitation and space limitation. CRUCIAL P3 Pro 4TB. Tried the Western Digital offering, which fit fine since they put the DRAM chip on the underside which made it okay for space, but learned that DRAM is where the increased power draw comes from. Crucial's is DRAM-LESS. Which removes that excess power as well. And I just learned from a review on Amazon, that you can get the full fat Gen 4 7000+GB/s experience by downloading the CACHE software from Crucial's site.IN CONCLUSION:Yeah, totally recommend this. It's great. Has so many input options: touch screen, MPP 2.0 pens, track pad and keyboard, and controller. Has so many ports on it as well, except for LAN, sadly. SIGH. I went for 32 and 1TB since I did plan on installing a bigger internal SSD, but needed that RAM for how bad I am at TAB management and how bad Mozilla is at RAM utilization. This is basically my emulator machine, don't try to run any current gen 3D games on it. I'll go Sonic Generations at most on this.