Artificial Intelligence (sort of) ;-)
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Today I opened  a package with the new  GPD Pocket 2 [1] (it  will be a
Christmas present for  my wife) and put  it on a table near  my own GPD
Pocket. When the old Pocket detected presence on a (younger) competitor
then it started to make problems - it started to show random data about
battery (this  is a  thing that  it never  did before).  life, produced
several  Ubuntu errors  and so.  Don't tell  me that  there isn't  some
hidden artificial intelligence...

About the GPD Pocket  2, if you are interested: it's  still a 7" laptop
with full size keys. The key layout is somewhat improved (at least they
removed "clusters" of key so probability  that one will hit a CapsLock
instead of the "a" letter is a lit lower, for example) but it is no way
perfect: the right  Shift was removed, the Tab is  displaced and so on.
So  some training  is still  necessary  and experience  with the  older
Pocket keyboard is not useful here.

They also removed the trackpoint and  replaced it by a tiny touchpad. It
is not as bad as it may  look but the trackpoint is MUCH more effective.
The rest of hardware is OK - not worse than if was inside the original
Pocket. The screen  seems to be the same. A  microHDMI port was removed
but there is added  a microSD slot and a second  full-size USB port. So
it has two USB3 ports (full-size ones) and one USB-C (both for charging
and expansion), a 3.5mm audio jack and the microSD slot. And there is a
Core m3 CPU  instead of the Atom  in the old Pocket. At  the moment I'm
not able to comment performance  differences (if there are any) because
I use different  OS revision on both machines: my  own (old) GPD Pocket
runs Ubuntu  16.04 with the Unity  (the OS is  tuned to run well  on my
device so I  don't want to update  it) and the new on  runs Ubuntu MATE
18.10 (the  MATE is the  environment that my  wife uses on  her current
home computer - on the Lenovo x60).

I noticed only one thing: I tried  to run the Ubuntu MATE 18.10 on both
machines. There is  no noticeable difference in speed  nor in interface
responses but the original Pocket is very  noisy - its fan runs on full
speed for all  time. The Pocket 2's  fan runs all the time  but on much
lower speed so the device is much quieter. I'm not sure if it is caused
by drivers or  by the fact that  such environment is too  heavy for the
Atom CPU so it runs on high speed most of time.


References:

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket2-7-0-umpc-laptop-win-10-os