#Mangmi Pocket Max

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cursive glacier
vast coral
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my guess is he's curled up in a padded room because not enough people bought the pocket max 😄

lusty widget
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David is in Rome kek

umbral rampart
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Color?

civic ore
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the real david is the friends we made along the way

cursive glacier
wintry mountain
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A previous year's Y700? The gen 2 (which is now 2 gens old, soon to be 3 gens old) has the 8gen2 (edit: this is wrong, my apologies!) which is an excellent chip for streaming, giving you access to Artemis' ultra low latency mode

vast coral
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not the 8gen 2

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it's the 8+ gen 1 🙂

wintry mountain
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Isn't that the first gen?

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Was there no Y700 with the 8Gen2?

vast coral
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nope 😄 first y700 was 870, then gen 2 model with the 8+ gen 1

digital igloo
acoustic tulip
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What are the chances the Pocket Max ultimately winds up on AliExpress and we can get it for a better price after coupons?

frail summit
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Just about guaranteed

cursive glacier
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can you get the air x cheap on ali?

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all I see are rip offs

nimble isle
cursive glacier
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I paid £63 for mine

acoustic tulip
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I paid $90 from mangmi at launch. Pretty sure I’ve seen Ali listings recently that were ~$100 after discounts. So maybe if the pocket max doesn’t sell well it could get cheaper on there.

wicked lance
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I also paid £63. But mine arrived broken. So I paid the ultimate price really 😅

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I ended up selling it broken as mangmi only gave me a $10 refund for issues.

cursive glacier
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oh dear

slender lily
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how's it gooing gentlemen

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anymore buyers?

slender lily
warm swallow
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we all have bought a portal already

slender lily
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i had an odin 3 preorder already so I was covered

lusty widget
umbral rampart
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Probably sanding down Mangmi modules

vast coral
wintry mountain
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Mine's shipped crashwoah

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There's confirmation on the Mangmi Discord that all colours have shipped too

vast coral
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whoo 😄 how much did it come to for you?

wintry mountain
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£157.40 + £4.64 international purchase fee from my bank

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Pretty good imo

cursive glacier
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yeah, I'm tempted

vast coral
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fair price

frail summit
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David demands it

wintry mountain
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Yeah tbf if i had the same experience as you with the Air X, I doubt I'd buy from Mangmi ever again

wicked lance
tough fulcrum
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Just got the shipping notification for mine too. Was not expecting it anywhere near this quick

umbral rampart
vast coral
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arrived broken

wicked lance
# umbral rampart What happened there?

Right stick non functional, mangmi only gave me $10 refund. Told me to avoid sending it back. As no timescale of when it would returned. So ended up selling it broken, making as much as i could back. Thankfully only paid £63 for it

umbral rampart
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Ok I think I recall the $10 now

cursive glacier
cursive glacier
slender lily
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Good news, my order just shipped!

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So they work pretty fast

cursive glacier
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or at least, get what you paid for

umbral rampart
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Mangmi will be including air x with every pocket max purchase soon. Like buying pocket s mini kek

slender lily
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I hope mine doesn't have any problems.

umbral rampart
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I wish the best for mangmi. But I felt no joy putting the pocket Max into the cart several times.

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I hope they arrive in working order though, no sanding required

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If it were $150 and DIY sanding, I'd buy

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Honestly I probably would have bought one if they just had another cool set of buttons to show off, but apparently they have no desire to support that at all

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If something is modular you have to have more than one option to show off

slender lily
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The main I am hoping for is comfortability!

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Especially with those huge sticks

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Fullsize

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I'm also eager to see this screen.

wintry mountain
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The sticks are the killer feature for me yeah

wicked lance
umbral rampart
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Yeah they got the sticks

slender lily
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Are those full size sticks or are you just happy to see me?

warm swallow
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@still ember did your pocket max ship?

tough fulcrum
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Did he cave and get one? I thought he made the sane decision and went for a portal

slender lily
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Lol, I didn't know he actually got one.

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We will probably receive our Max's a a few weeks to a month ahead of the portals atleast

cursive glacier
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he did?

umbral rampart
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Curious to see how ppl feel about build quality. If I'm over $200 I want a premium feel. Air X was okay for $85.

cursive glacier
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someone said it was cheap - was it dweed

umbral rampart
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Perhaps, gotta go rewatch now

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I'm guessing the plastic was scaled up and has a similar feel and finish

warm swallow
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i don't think he got one

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just trolling

slender lily
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When did you order?

umbral rampart
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Guessing the day it went on sale

nimble isle
deep marsh
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My two have tracking now as well. No ETA. They may have just printed the label.

flint quiver
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This so stupid. Why does adding a $10 case add another $10 in shipping?
So basically for buying the console and to add the case it's $20 more.
This is for US shipping.

I really do want to support this company but this is ridiculous.

civic ore
deep marsh
wintry mountain
slender lily
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There you go

still ember
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From aliexpress or from your physical store or local e-commerce store.

slender lily
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david did you buy one yet

hardy monolith
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imma melt an odin 2 portal into a bottle and pour it out for every pocket max someone buys

vast coral
wintry mountain
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One thing about me is I'm always departing from sort facilities

wintry mountain
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Unfair, your Portal shipped way sooner than my Pocket Max lol

mystic jetty
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I love how we're discussing ayn shipments in here

nimble isle
digital igloo
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Will they get stuck in china if they didn't leave the country by some dateline?

hushed girder
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Deadline in two weeks for portal sale, what's next after? kek

nimble isle
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I think pocket max is going to 220 soon right?

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So the next is rp6 at 230 lmfao

nimble isle
wintry mountain
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Lol yeah true

wintry mountain
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Hello everyone, in this video I need to very quickly tell you about the Mangmi Pocket Max before it's too late! It has the same Snapdragon 865 processor as the Retroid Pocket 5, Flip 2 and Mini. My website has thousands of reports for this! It's made with streaming in mind so that big beautiful 1080p 144hz OLED is GLORIOUS! I -REALLY- like this ...

▶ Play video
deep marsh
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Yeah, after the price increase, not sure I would've bought the max. It will all depend on the competitive landscape when the early bird expires.

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This forum is constantly debating items that are at sale prices. This will pass.

umbral rampart
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Interested in more Mangmi customer service stories

deep marsh
slender lily
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The only scary part is we are getting batch 1s

umbral rampart
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Yeah

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I hope you guys get good units

wintry mountain
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I'm going to have the best unit in the whole world

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One million points to whoever gets that reference lol

umbral rampart
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This looks like old internet

umbral rampart
wintry mountain
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I haven't watched it yet lol 😅 finish work in 6 mins tho

umbral rampart
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Most positive review of them all

slender lily
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I'm just starting work.

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Next week is the new year and I heard if your item isn't out of china a few days before it's staying there for 2 weeks or so

acoustic tulip
nimble isle
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They won't sell well

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Until they hit Ali express at 170 or less

acoustic tulip
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Instabuy at $170 or less imo

umbral rampart
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Of course

nimble isle
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Yes for those that can't afford a portal this would a good deal at 170

cursive glacier
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I'm out, I'm unfollowing and leaving

a big use case of this is the streaming, and I don't stream games at all

mystic jetty
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If the sticks wer put on an odin portal, I'd be all over that too

warm swallow
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mangmi pocket max. get it for big, thick, girthy sticks.

umbral rampart
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Comfortable to hold, unless you want to use ST/SE, right analog stick, or back buttons apparently

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Those sticks and triggers though chefskiss it would seem

obsidian granite
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Retroid doing their part trying to kill this giving the RP5 and Flip 2 discounts .
Sure not exactly the same size but still comparable as both have OLED and use the SD865

deep marsh
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Rp5 is pretty different in terms of controls and ergo. My preference is to always have a grip on it.

hushed girder
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Already 200+ local orders🚀

deep marsh
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Better than before. Anyone know the break even point?

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Thought the pre order was low margin.

umbral rampart
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Flash in the pan

hushed girder
hushed girder
mighty birch
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300 units sold is horrible. Whats the profit margin on these? like 10%

nimble isle
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International

hushed girder
nimble isle
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Does this Chinese 200 number captures their own websites, where is this number pulled from

nimble isle
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I never heard of it need to look into it

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Is this where they sell locally? I thought mangmi has their own website

hushed girder
nimble isle
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It doesn't let me do anything on those, as soon as I click anything it asks for login details. I am just going to go full David mode

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Yes I tried the VPN to Asia as well

hushed girder
nimble isle
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I don't want to

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I am a lazy mf

hushed girder
nimble isle
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So they get 9k for local selling

mighty birch
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Its only not bad if can sell the volume to match it

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9k profit is bad.

nimble isle
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I don't know how many people work there but they need to get into my assembly job in the UK, they will be getting 3k per person every month, that's more than the launch

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🧢

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Peak experience

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They say

mighty birch
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The buzz words don't matter. At the end of the day the products didn't meet customer expectations.

nimble isle
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It didn't meet the price expectations

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Product itself was fine

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If it was 170 early bird and 200 retail this would fly off the shelves

mighty birch
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Nah I disagree. The product wasn't fine. Modular buttons that nobody want. Older SOC. Of course lower price would see more units but overall meh product

hushed girder
nimble isle
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They got too greedy with the modular buttons and all glass front. All they needed to do is to differentiate themselves from the portal enough that people would see it as a different product entirely. Make absolutely killer ergonomics, forget about the size, this thing is huge already. Give up the all glass front so people that hate it would see it as a perk against the portal. Remove the modular controls or if you really want to do it make dpad and stick position swappable for the weird people that want to play dpad centric games on a 7inch. Keep the 865 to keep the costs down, after all you position it as a streaming handheld, 865 is ok for android games and low-mid retro gaming, even a good portion of switch will run because of insane driver support. But they just literally made a worse portal with the only redeeming quality being full size tmr sticks. AYN rightfully responded by slashing the prices on base portal and completely destroying mangmis sales, all because they could not differentiate themselves from the portal enough to make even a slight incentive to give up power in favour of other features that pocket max could have had but decided not to

deep marsh
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Before the sale, was the price a differentiation?

hushed girder
nimble isle
ashen pond
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It's like the only reason I want it

nimble isle
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But you can't swap positions

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You just swap the type

deep marsh
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Reviews are saying the one micro switches are worse so they don't use them. It's going to be personal preference. Will test it out when mine arrive.

ashen pond
deep marsh
ashen pond
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Oh yeah zu mentioned that in the Odin three review

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Hm but this is bigger right?

digital igloo
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sent them an email asking for more details on the screen dimming and memory speed some weeks back, just got a reply yesterday saying its confidential kek

nimble isle
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Still confidential

ashen pond
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I feel like with my luck I buy this it delivers and then one of the companies announce a 4x3 of 5.7 the next day

nimble isle
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From what we know there are no oled 4:3 available to use for handheld companies because if there was we would definitely see one already

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And if you want to buy something 7 inches I would definitely recommend the portal instead of this because it's pretty much the same look and feel, arguably better ergonomics with the grip. No modular nonsense, more than twice as much power

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For only 50 extra dollars

nimble isle
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Once you done with it the resale value is going to be way better too so it's actually saves you money in the long run

nimble isle
acoustic tulip
deep vector
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It's David Mangmi trying to sell his remaining stock

lusty widget
mystic jetty
ripe girder
vital brook
deep vector
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Pocket Max with Snapdragon Elite Gen 5

umbral rampart
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Pocket Ultra Max

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With even bigger sticks

slender silo
# acoustic tulip

I love the fake inflated retail prices of Aliexpress stuff. "Look, this SD865 handheld retails for $900+, isn't this sale price a bargain?" Funny thing is that a pretty sizable (at the time) toy retailer had to settle a class action lawsuit over this same practice in the early 2000s.

wintry mountain
wintry mountain
nimble isle
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I do 8-5 Monday to Thursday 8-1 Friday

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Frequent paid overtime is nice too

vast coral
vast coral
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haha yep 😄

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I'm really impressed with how well the Gen 2 runs switch

nimble isle
# wicked lance For all dem handhelds

Mostly for mortgage deposit savings, I put away about 60% of my income into the ISA at the moment. I leave some for fun but I mostly finance my purchases so its not too bad

vast coral
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yay for good financial decisions 😄 we are a rare breed lol

nimble isle
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It's been rough this year, just applied for citizenship, £1735 for the application. Portal looked like a great purchase compared to this

wicked lance
wintry mountain
wintry mountain
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I gots schmoovement

wicked lance
nimble isle
wintry mountain
deep marsh
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Clicky TMR testing with the kishi 3 pro. Not bad. Max is in Taiwan.

mystic jetty
wintry mountain
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Half hour lunch for the win! An hour is way too long, especially when you're WFH

last violet
deep marsh
mystic jetty
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ah good times

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now i start work when i feel like it and go home when i feel like it

acoustic tulip
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Last day for super early bird 🙈

umbral rampart
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SEB is over. RIP Pocket Max

obsidian granite
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I think they will extend EB if they are smart

umbral rampart
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Maybe they'll just threaten to raise to full price

flint quiver
vast coral
wicked lance
late pike
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The pocket max is going to be a case study of external forces screwing over a launch.

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The one two punch of ai raising memory prices and ayn dropping the price of the portal, killed this product before it even came out.

umbral rampart
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Yes, fascinating indeed

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Market forces are wild

wintry mountain
wicked lance
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I have a hatred for razer products. So wont be buying one

wintry mountain
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Ah USB C as well, I enjoy the flexibility of a bluetooth one way more

wicked lance
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Such a nice controller

wintry mountain
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Hmm cool, i've only got the GaneSir X5s right now. I like it but wish the handles were longer

wintry mountain
wicked lance
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Its also really light compared to gamesir G8+

wintry mountain
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Nice

wicked lance
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I had a colourful package the other day 🤣

wintry mountain
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Ah hell yeah

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I have the white 64 controller, woulda got the grey one had it existed at the time

wicked lance
deep marsh
wintry mountain
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Not content with the first two facilities, my Pocket Max is now in transit to a third, more hopeful facility

nimble isle
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After the one you got

wintry mountain
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That sounds good crashwoah

nimble isle
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My portal is there since 10th

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So don't get too excited

wintry mountain
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They were waiting for mine to arrive before letting yours leave

nimble isle
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Mangmi paying the airport so that I don't get to dunk on pocket max buyers for getting their inferior product later than my portal

sturdy dove
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Anyone get portal? I think everyone

slender silo
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At this point, is there anyone left in this hobby who does NOT have an Odin 2 Portal?

wicked lance
wintry mountain
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lmao

wintry mountain
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Damn that was October 2024

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Time is bad

slender silo
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It's no surprise we can't tell time anymore. Anbernic's over there releasing their 2022 handhelds again.

wicked lance
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Handheld years work like cat years

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🐈‍⬛

wintry mountain
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You said cats so that's my queue to ask if anyone else is playing Mewgenics

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It fuckin' rules

acoustic tulip
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Is @wintry mountain the only one we know of in here that bought the pocket max?

umbral rampart
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I think there was one more

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Or like 3 total maybe

wintry mountain
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You're all gonna be so jealous

nimble isle
late pike
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wintry mountain
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Arrived at the airport WarioThumbsUp

nimble isle
ivory portal
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I have a white one on the way

nimble isle
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Another pocket max buyer?

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Mangmi saved

deep marsh
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Yeah, investing a bit.

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It has the features I wanted so I bought two. Didn't want to wait for price hikes that will kick in soon. GPUs I bought in November are 30% more expensive.

nimble isle
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Watch this be 150 on Ali next year

deep marsh
acoustic tulip
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I was hoping maybe $150 on this discord marketplace but it’s not looking good if barely anyone ordered them

deep marsh
queen aspen
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Mine left the Hong Kong airport this morning.

wicked lance
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Wow. @wintry mountain you were not the only one LinkTada

nimble isle
# deep marsh Care to wager?

There is not enough information for me to put money on it. What if they made one batch of like 800 units and that's it? If that's the case then no matter how weak the device is it will still overpriced after Ali drop due to scarcity. My current assumption is based on the RP5 price on this marketplace, one went for 135 including accessories and shipping, another listing went for 160 with retroid dual screen. Objectively speaking this has the same power, bigger screen and nicer sticks but module mess as a downside. A fair market price for it is 150 a year from now if even that. What it will cost actually depends on the quantity produced

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David also mentioned that it has slower last gen ram

hushed girder
nimble isle
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This may have been the final sale who knows

winged meadow
umbral rampart
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At least you aren't forced to take the microswitches now

winged meadow
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And now they’ll be getting sales any second now…any second now…any-

nimble isle
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For 7 inches sure

winged meadow
nimble isle
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Is it at 220 now?

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How funny would it be if they restock the portal again

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Mangmi can't breathe

hushed girder
hushed girder
sturdy dove
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No offense but I think this can be further understood of mangmi mindset and mentality regarding about their pricing and market position.

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I will probably stay around just to continue shitting on mangmi for any future upcoming product, because it’s entertaining

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Mangmi air x is good, don’t get me wrong. But their future release? I’m gonna stay around with popcorn

flint quiver
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The next Mangmi device is rumored to be a sub $100 Linux Vertical similar to the RPC.

umbral rampart
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Will it also have lame modules?

late pike
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Definitely, useless modules are their thing now

nimble isle
# umbral rampart Will it also have lame modules?

They have made a mistake with this one, they should have shipped with those clicky ones by default and let you purchase the actual good ones as an add on. This way you got no choice and are forced to get them. They need to step up their game

deep marsh
obsidian granite
slender lily
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My device is still in hk

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I don't think I'm getting it

nimble isle
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Guys

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The airport prison is over

still ember
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Wifi 6 pocket max
wifi 7 odin 2 portal

still ember
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PC streaming for both odin 2 portal and pocket max

obsidian granite
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Oh oh Portal Max back in stock for $249

nimble isle
still ember
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Pocket Max at 220 totally cannot compete with this 249 portal.

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Pocket Max post EB will not be selling well with o2p selling at 249!!! I believe ayn infact producing new batch of odin 2 portal.

warm swallow
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where would we be without you, david?

deep vector
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Reminder that the Pocket Max will go up to $240 so the Portal would still be the better deal

still ember
deep vector
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Nice Try David Mangmi

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I'm on to your tactics

umbral rampart
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I guess 220 "early bird" goes at least until after AYN sale is over, if not longer

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240 is just suicidal

late pike
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Base Odin 2 portal back in stock? Yeah there is no reason to buy this. They should have put a snapdragon g2 in this.

hardy monolith
ashen pond
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I bought it total came to 220

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👀👀👀

deep marsh
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Game on

twin bough
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Drop the price to $100

queen aspen
acoustic tulip
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Can’t keep straight who’s posting portal tracking or pocket max tracking doggylol

late pike
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It's a race

nimble isle
late pike
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We're all addicts here. They probably got one of each.

open drum
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I ordered a pocket Max
Will be here this week

wicked lance
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How many orders is that now? 5/6?

deep vector
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Pocket Max will be nice when it's like $150

umbral rampart
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We'll call it 6

wintry mountain
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Oooooh yeah

nimble isle
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I am checking royal mail tracking twice a day

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I can't let sand pest win

wintry mountain
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"that sand bastard" as Mr Balls calls me

deep marsh
open drum
wicked lance
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So close

umbral rampart
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That's impressive

wintry mountain
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Fackin' Landan you shlayg

wicked lance
queen aspen
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Mine is out for delivery!

queen aspen
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Delivered!

warm swallow
deep marsh
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Mine is enjoying a 48 hour flight

flint quiver
mystic jetty
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Someone rename group to odin portal shipping updates

late pike
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I hope everyone that brought one of these enjoys it. Happy gaming.

umbral rampart
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I hope the sticks bring joy

queen aspen
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Ergo is really nice.

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Definitely feels built very well.

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Sticks are great

deep vector
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I hope everyone got a Portal instead

deep vector
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All coming from the Mangmi subreddit

umbral rampart
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Lol

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I seen someone say they canceled their Portal order and went with Mangmi but their friend didn't and is waiting on the Portal to ship. Pretty smart friend imo

deep marsh
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They (2x white Max) about a 5-hour car trip away. Hoping to get them by the weekend

vast coral
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fingers crossed you get them soon

warm swallow
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it might be today for me...

deep marsh
deep marsh
# acoustic tulip How come you bought 2?

Mostly laziness. If it works well without a grip, I wanted one in a couple of places in the house. The price increase was a factor as well. Ram prices and the hyperscalers are still buying.

umbral rampart
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Man, I wish I could afford to be lazy

umbral rampart
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But if this thing needs a grip we're cooked

deep marsh
warm swallow
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pocket maxes in every room of the house!!! looks around... lives in a studio apartment.

deep marsh
tough fulcrum
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Only 2 states away, hopefully a Saturday delivery

wintry mountain
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Mine should be coming today >:)

wintry mountain
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Trigger warning for blasphemy

wintry mountain
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Bangin' decode times

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The fan's weird. At quiet it's great, not audible at all. Balanced, you can hear it, but it's quiet enough to not be annoying/distracting. Smart/auto, even at idle on power saving mode, is louder than balanced and honestly annoying.

wintry mountain
wintry mountain
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The plastic has a really nice papery texture to it, it's not slick like an RG556

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More comfortable than a Portal without a grip, not quite as comfortable as a Portal with a grip, but is a fair bit lighter than that so it evens outs. I don't think I'd need a grip for this

umbral rampart
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If this needs a grip I'm convinced some of y'all just wanna grab fat ass cheeks all day long

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Not that there's anything wrong with that

umbral rampart
deep marsh
wintry mountain
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Lol I wondered why you said "awesome" before that crucial edit doggylol

cursive glacier
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weird how david disappeared for chinese new year, out of office

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I'm back to say congrats to sand_pest for receiving

deep marsh
deep marsh
cursive glacier
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I skipped because I don't game stream

deep marsh
wintry mountain
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All I've done is a quick streaming test, not played anything proper yet, still working at the mo

mystic jetty
wintry mountain
obsidian granite
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Is the SD865 GPU overclocked from the factory at all times , or is that just in Max/performance settings ( or whatever they call it ) ?

mystic jetty
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But in high performance I see a difference in ps2/gc, I rarely see any difference in Gamehub or the switch games I've personally tried

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Could be worth doing the proper overclock, it brings the 865 in and even above the sd888 range (from What I'm told)

warm swallow
obsidian granite
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Or glosses over it pretty quickly without getting too much into it

mystic jetty
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I would love to know what actually happens when high performance is selected

obsidian granite
mystic jetty
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adjustable

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Gonna quickly check now

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So on high performance mode you get the option of smart, sport and a new option "customise"

obsidian granite
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Nice so besides the modular controls this is better than your regular SD 865 and think a lot of people were hung up on the fact it was just a SD865

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The performance bump makes it significantly better all around

mystic jetty
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In smart mode the fan is fairly quiet depending on temps, sport and the lowest option on customise seem to be the same, and the highest option on customise is noticeably louder

mystic jetty
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Someone has a spreadsheet on reddit testing different Gamehub games pre and post OC. There is definitely a difference and it does vary game to game

obsidian granite
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Would be nice knowing what each setting actually does and Mangmi should of been more clear , they might of had more sales

mystic jetty
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Let's hope one of the reviewers tests this specific feature out in more depth

deep marsh
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Testing the overclock would make an excellent livestream

umbral rampart
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Mangmi put out several videos showcasing different aspects of this device. If they had a black magic overclock demonstration it seems like they would have used it.

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Are we supposed to believe they achieved performance mode configurations that have never been seen before in any other 865 device??

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If so then they need to show the receipts

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Perhaps one of the reviewers who actually takes the time to play games more in depth will get to something like this, could be interesting.

warm swallow
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i don't think any of them will live with it long enough to

mystic jetty
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But the difference in performance and high performance aswell, in an rp5

umbral rampart
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Would make for an interesting comparison

obsidian granite
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It show tangible performance gains and only noticed after someone mentioned it might be overclocked

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Not sure what else would explain the difference, both have very high stability

umbral rampart
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Compelling

ripe girder
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That is a marginal increase

nimble stump
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definitely a butt-dial situation

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ope

obsidian granite
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You butt can post ?
Impressive

nimble stump
obsidian granite
sleek pollen
deep marsh
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My two should be in tomorrow. Got wake on lan set up on the PC for some potential streaming and syncthing set up with some roms. Will be playing the Game of the Week on it. May be the first one showing up in completion screenshots... unless sand_pest beats me to it 🙂 .

amber juniper
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isn't that what happens if you break the tabs on the sd cover?

deep marsh
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Scored the first completion. Will write some review notes later.

slender lily
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I have received mine

deep marsh
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Temp and CPU % vs fan speed 😜

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It will hit red temps (over 85c) on this with the fan off.

deep marsh
deep marsh
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Posted a bunch in the magmi channel about what I thought of the max. It's a bit long #1348901442525855805 message. If anyone can do that scrolling screenshot thing and post it here, please do so.

deep marsh
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Playing Black on the PS2. Great experience that also demonstrates how the lower controls are not inset enough. 2x with the fan off means I'm focusing on sucking at the game and not fan noise.

feral void
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I’m excited to see where this company goes

flint quiver
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All the posts on Reddit about this device are very positive

deep marsh
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It's, generally, very good. They went for a clean and symmetric look. The d-pad is smooth and the start and select are on a single side and lower. This leads to a few ways I would change it. If this gets a linux build, it'll be a long-lasting as it will improve with software releases. Time will tell. I'm happy with the purchase, but got in early.

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So much detail went into symmetry. You can see the exhaust length matches the top button length.

acoustic tulip
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Wonder when the first one will pop up on the marketplace kirby_popcorn

umbral rampart
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Still time to sell your Pocket Max and get the Portal while it's on sale.

deep marsh
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Before I was playing Black on the PS2 on the Max, maybe the portal's performance gains made sense. Black plays fine on the Max, upscaled, without the fan on. Tested it out to see if the PWM would bother me and it doesn't seem to. All annoyances are minor and don't have an alternative without tradeoffs. So no real reason to sell.

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The Max got face button size and spacing right for me. That doesn't happen often.

umbral rampart
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Buttons do be important

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I like a good button press

obsidian granite
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Just wish the Dpad was more inset and probably was possible if it didn't have the modular controls

deep marsh
# obsidian granite Just wish the Dpad was more inset and probably was possible if it didn't have th...

There's a good teardown video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRW_UTLTnVo. Seems to confirm. The full-sized sticks do take up a lot of space as well.

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still ember
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Finally odin 2 portal sales are ending soon on 25th Feb.
Therefore I think sales for pocket max will pick up after that.
Great News for Mangmi.

flint quiver
still ember
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Early bird was good at 200 dollar.
Once it retail at 220 there is drop in sales as odin 2 portal is selling at 249. But odin 2 portal now going back to 300 dollar. pocket max at 220 is a great buy.

mystic jetty
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So @still ember did you buy one

deep marsh
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It's more about the feeling of smoothness than the test itself.

umbral rampart
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Mangmi still waiting to raise price. This thing going to 240. Not a good deal anymore, that's over

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Pocket Max is dead

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Sure, 12 people bought it but probably 37 people bought a portal

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Not sure why David thinks everybody is excited to pay more for this thing all the sudden

deep vector
umbral rampart
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Lol

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True

deep vector
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He's shilling a Device he doesn't even own

umbral rampart
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If David would have bought one and then sold it, I would have bought it used

deep vector
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I waiting on that $150 price point

mystic jetty
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$162 dollars and I'll take it

slender silo
umbral rampart
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150-162 sold

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Where all the used pocket max?

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Probably too busy streaming games

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Look at the decode times on these giant sticks!

warm swallow
umbral rampart
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David didn't buy a Pocket Max but did he get a Portal 🤔

vast coral
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i think he might've done 😄

deep vector
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You guys broke David

last violet
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Who is this famous David? 😅

umbral rampart
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The david

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Legend

last violet
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Seriously.... Who is it? 😶

warm swallow
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the biggest max simp who never supported what they were simping

last violet
slender silo
umbral rampart
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David was a one man marketing campaign

warm swallow
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gotta swap man for bot 😂

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ai is amazing

umbral rampart
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David is an entity

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He teleported tf outta here

obsidian granite
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Why you guys all bullying David ?
I get having some fun at someone’s expense but you guys are non stop

deep vector
obsidian granite
vital brook
vital brook
umbral rampart
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Quite possibly

worn bay
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Yeah at one point he had that pfp

deep marsh
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120Hz with subframes and battery life being awesome

mystic jetty
warm swallow
north flower
slender silo
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Isn't the topic of this channel the Odin 2 Portal? Now I'm confused.

tough fulcrum
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Mangmi finally showed up. Ergos aren't bad, but the Odin 3 and Switch 2 are both more comfortable with their grips. I do love the micro switch buttons though

amber juniper
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are they dome or actual microswitches

tough fulcrum
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Without actually tearing it apart, they feel like micro switches.

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They're pretty damn clicky, the only controller I have that has a more distinct click are my easysmx s10s

open drum
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I still like it a lot

flint quiver
deep marsh
still ember
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Ayn still selling odin 2 portal base at 249 after 25th Feb!!!!
Pocket Max Sales will definitely be affected.

warm swallow
mystic jetty
deep marsh
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Still need to tweak this, but am streaming with Artemis/Apollo

mystic jetty
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I guess the jokes are going to slow down considering rp6 price is going up, 12gb model discontinued as well as odin price increases

slender silo
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Probably not by much - especially if the Mangmi also goes up to its "regular price" $239.99 ...

mystic jetty
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When portal goes back to normal prices, I won't see the problem.

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Especially with the price increases and some ram models being discontinued

brittle hill
deep marsh
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This was a 90% battery drain. Almost 12 hours of screentime.

acoustic tulip
prisma umbra
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Has Ayn even shipped the sale price Odin 2 Portals? As someone waiting on my Thor their shipping is a complete cluster right now. And yunexpress is garbage. I don't know what carrier Mangmi is using but that alone could make it worth it imo

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My Thor has been in limbo for over three weeks now. Still hasn't moved from "arrived at origin facility" in China and took two weeks to get that far from label created.

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Odin 2 Portal at $250* (plus shipping) might as well be vaporware if it's gonna be months of waiting

umbral rampart
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Some of the earliest portal 2 orders have shipped from what I've seen. I think people were expecting a surge of orders to ship this week but I've yet to see that. Mangmi is going to ship super fast in my experience.

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Mangmi like a taco truck right now, they're ready to pull up and serve.

prisma umbra
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I'm tempted to order a couple for my kids for Christmas or their birthdays later in the year. Should run Android Minecraft well enough

umbral rampart
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Hopefully the current price will remain and the $240 will only be a threat

vast coral
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they only recently returned from CNY but yeah they've got a big backlog atm

tropic solstice
obsidian granite
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Anyone have a size comparison pic between a RP5 or RP6 vs the Pocket Max ? ( preferably the RP5 )
Yes obviously the Max is bigger I just want to see how much bigger it us in person and with my own eyes

deep marsh
obsidian granite
# deep marsh

Thanks , it's actually not much bigger than the Retroid and smaller than I pictured in my head

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With the added grips it's practically the same size

deep marsh
obsidian granite
obsidian granite
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If you can can you take a straight on pic of them only together?

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Would be greatly appreciated

deep marsh
obsidian granite
mystic jetty
mystic jetty
obsidian granite
prisma umbra
mystic jetty
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Man those sticks look lovely

slender silo
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If this had at least SD8G2 it would have been an instant buy for me because of the full-sized sticks.

hardy monolith
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The sticks are the best upgrade on it tbh

obsidian granite
deep marsh
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Another game down. After putting in about 15 hours on this device, I think the best features are the screen and battery life. The controls are not at the same tier as those features, but still very good. The fan doesn't need to run much so noise levels are good. Performance is good enough for my uses and can handle downloading large files and extracting them relatively quickly. Solid option for most uses and worth a premium over the RP5. Not sure If I would pay another $30 to get it. Will see what the prices of other handhelds do.

flint quiver
amber juniper
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they should make a sd8gen2 device with r36s plastic and control quality but $30 cheaper than the odin 2 portal on sale

deep vector
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Odin 2 Portal is still $250

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So the Mangmi is still an awful deal

vast coral
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Only potential advantage this has is maybe getting it faster but yeah, base portal for 250 before shipping still makes it the no brainer pick

still ember
vast coral
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hence why I said 'only advantage the max has maybe getting it faster'

umbral rampart
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Sup David

deep marsh
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Would add controls and ergo to the Max's advantages as well. People have gone back and forth on needing a grip. The max is good enough without one IMHO.

vast coral
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of course he didn't

mystic jetty
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He ain’t responding to that

deep vector
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He knows he'll look bad if he does

acoustic tulip
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Well well well…

Hopefully the price comes down…a lot

deep vector
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$150 and I'll get one

vast coral
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150 is a no brainer 😄

mystic jetty
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Yeah $150 is a steal tbh, I'd pay $170

ivory portal
deep vector
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Yes

obsidian granite
# ivory portal https://youtu.be/VcSZygohNvA

I still think the modular controls were extremely unnecessary and just added to the cost , no one asked for them and would of been perfectly fine with just membrane based D pad and buttons

umbral rampart
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Yeah I think if they just didn't do that all together no one would have said anything.t By introducing them, they're just subject to criticism for lots of good reason.

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Surely the number of people wishing they were micro switch buttons would not outweigh the number of people complaining to pay more for this gimmick.

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Commend them for doing something different but this was just a bit too low effort. At the absolute least, there should have been one other type of button, style or arrangement to choose or be excited about. You can't be like hey, you can customize these with one of two options.

deep marsh
deep marsh
umbral rampart
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For real though, people said adding accessories would make the shipping like 30 some dollars to North America.

deep marsh
slender silo
acoustic tulip
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Keep dropping

deep vector
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Yes please

amber juniper
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do these aliex listings include the microswitch modules?

acoustic tulip
amber juniper
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yea i can get it for $170 after all the discounts, tax, and cashback but i don't want it without the microswitch modules

deep vector
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Microswitch Modules have always been a separate purchase

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They're only being included for the Early Bird sales

amber juniper
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yeah companies just including the free promotion item beyond the early purchase phase is pretty common

acoustic tulip
amber juniper
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I've never not received cashback/rebates, people just don't do it properly

deep marsh
hardy monolith
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this being from my experience with all the premium swithc joy cons which all have microswitch buttons and triggers

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kind of kills a piece for travel but i do find they feel very pleasant

mystic jetty
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But if no ones around, I don't care for the loudness

cursive glacier
deep marsh
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Got game streaming set up headless today. Running linux on the gaming pc so needed a EDID for a fake display https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G479L9NF. Set up Wake on Lan and the user systemd file to start apollo and we are off.

deep marsh
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Turbo Overkill streaming at 90FPS cap

still ember
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Finally!!! ayn odin 2 portal base is finally out of stock.
No way that ayn let this return to stock up status again.

deep vector
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LMFAO

vast coral
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of course he didn't

stray estuary
deep vector
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Ayn back at it again

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RIP Pocket Max

still ember
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Oh dear Ayn is really evil. 25th Feb sales over.
There is shortage of ddr5 ram.
how on earth ayn can sell odin 2 portal base at 249!!!?

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I check again. it is stock out already!!!

wintry mountain
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You're the evil one mate you didn't even buy a Pocket Max doggylol

still ember
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Ayn o2p base stock return again
🙁 Really sales for pocket max will be affected again.

wintry mountain
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Buy one then

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Show Mangmi you care

vast coral
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He doesn't, he just likes parroting his bollocks 😄

mystic jetty
sleek pollen
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He's too busy using his "Goat" Portal.

mystic jetty
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Oh @still ember, what's going on here?

mystic jetty
umbral rampart
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David was only directing people to the pocket max to secure his portal sale

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It was a misdirection

wintry mountain
sleek pollen
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I guess I shouldn't be too surprised living in the LA area but it's still funny to see it pop up on FB marketplace.

deep vector
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Can't believe David is selling off his Pocket Max

umbral rampart
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$280

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That's not even new. That's open box

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Could've rubbed themselves all over it for all I know

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$3.50

deep marsh
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New update details. Vibration adjust is interesting. That was a complaint I heard of

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Update took some time. The vibration strength setting works well.

hardy monolith
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lol “vibrator strength”

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First time I’ve ever seen anyone not call it vibration or rumble haha gotta love localization

slender silo
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This device is for "games" ... right.

fleet hatch
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The first case/grip on aliexpress

deep marsh
random bear
prime tusk
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150 is a nice deal

ruby pendant
wicked lance
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Oh wow. Is this still in upcoming? 😅

slender silo
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Guess no one believed it came out.

random bear
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Heh. Surprised this isn't closed yet

wicked lance
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Maybe we need to ping @open drum 😅

mystic jetty
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I saw activity in here and got excited that the poet David made his return. I am greatly disappointed.

quick heron
wintry mountain
hardy monolith
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I mean we’re all 100% sure David is just a mangmi employee right? lol

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I thought there was no question 😂

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Or a family of one lol

civic ore
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there was a brief David sighting recently on the RG Rotate channel

slender bear
# hardy monolith I thought there was no question 😂

Not sute for a while I thought he is from MagicX, he was agreeing with all their decisions etc. He finally bought Odin 2 Portal and announced it here. His actions could be a reverse marketing here - Luna also hated Mangmi and Anbernic

civic ore
runic lance
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And ayn kept restocking it until to this very day..

obsidian granite
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I think they kept on restocking just to spite him

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Either way I ordered a Portal 2

civic ore
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poor david