Thanks for reuploading this. I was looking for this after watchin Stopdrop&retros videos on the smachz. Phawx really believed in these guys and not retro lol
Thanks for reuploading this after the cowardly dirty delete, The Phawx shilled the hell out of this thing and in all likelihood a lot of people lost a decent chunk of change instead of pushing for refunds because of that. It also started getting coverage on more mainstream sites because of the fake unboxing.
This would mean that the unit Phawx has is the ONLY Smach Z in the wild. Give it a while and it'll become a collector's item. Hopefully he didn't already throw the thing away or sell it too early to someone else, though I don't blame him if he did.
I never got mine and lost my money. Whats crazy is Phawx seems to be the only one who ever got one. Which is strange considering they made a box and case and everything for the thing just to ship it to one guy? Doesnt make sense
Because it never worked properly and it was still a prototype full of bugs and problems which Smach Z team cannot resolve due to not wanting to pay the hardware and firmware developers for further development. Phawx probably hid all this problems from his review. Heard that if update latest GPU driver the whole unit will not work and had to be recovered using external monitor, that's one example I dug up. There's no actual real battery monitoring and management, is another I dug up.
@@loweedwards7807 my question is why even send it to Phawx in the first place? And why him? He's got less than 100k subs, he's one of many tech reviewers on TH-cam. He's not Linus Tech Tips or MKBHD or Dave2D though.
@@aznsensation44 Yes, weird that Smach Z was not sent to more reviewers. Not sure but likely because of some agreements in order to get a unit reviewed? Notice Phawx never tried installing other operating system like Linux also like in some of his other reviews, since Smach Z was supposed to be able to run Linux based Smach OS which had never been seen at all. Probably he cannot change much of anything within the preinstalled custom software and operating system except play around with BIOS settings. I think its all about controlling the media, by Smach Z team. The other big time reviewers had more say and would probably tried something that would most likely brick the unfinished hardware resulting in scathing reviews.
Were there more videos by The Phawx about the Smach Z? I seem to remember one where he addressed some of StopDropRetro's claims. I wonder why he deleted them?
As far I know all the backers that pre ordered a Smach Z got one, it appears that is a piece of junk that overheats and drain the battery extremely fast. I would suggest the Smach Z reddit or the discord server, be careful tho, since the censorship is North Korea levels there.
No i think smach z don't shipment to any buyer, this is a prototipe, the Best scam of story they start at 2015 and don't refund, in 2018 they present a Windows tablet motherboarb atached to the console 😂
@@somerandomguy1470 None of the backers got any units even after begging Smach Z team to send them the unfinished prototype with flawed casing, that tiny dent one. Smach Z team has been definitely hiding something since the start of crowdfunding. Phawx has the only one, and its really unfinished and still a prototype.
Do you recommend buying it? Does it run games like Zelda, Minecraft, FIFA 24, Redemption, Guns, Impact, Hogwarts Legacy, Resident Evil 4, Little Nichtmares Hollow Knight, Among Us? And what is the price of the device in general?@@somerandomguy1470
Thanks for reuploading this. I was looking for this after watchin Stopdrop&retros videos on the smachz. Phawx really believed in these guys and not retro lol
I'd suggest to download it just in case its get a copyright claim.
Thanks for reuploading this after the cowardly dirty delete, The Phawx shilled the hell out of this thing and in all likelihood a lot of people lost a decent chunk of change instead of pushing for refunds because of that. It also started getting coverage on more mainstream sites because of the fake unboxing.
This would mean that the unit Phawx has is the ONLY Smach Z in the wild. Give it a while and it'll become a collector's item. Hopefully he didn't already throw the thing away or sell it too early to someone else, though I don't blame him if he did.
What year was this originally filmed?
Late 2019
This is Phawx
[BEST STEAM CONTROLLER SETUP] SET>Sensitivity:325% /SET>Acceleration high/ SET> Rotation 15/ SET> Smoothing 40/ SET> Trackpad on*/SET>Vertical friction scale 100/ SET> Edge spin speed 400/ SET> Edge spin radius 819/ SET(SET> Gyro Acceleration high)
I never got mine and lost my money. Whats crazy is Phawx seems to be the only one who ever got one. Which is strange considering they made a box and case and everything for the thing just to ship it to one guy? Doesnt make sense
I am sorry to hear that.
Because it never worked properly and it was still a prototype full of bugs and problems which Smach Z team cannot resolve due to not wanting to pay the hardware and firmware developers for further development. Phawx probably hid all this problems from his review. Heard that if update latest GPU driver the whole unit will not work and had to be recovered using external monitor, that's one example I dug up. There's no actual real battery monitoring and management, is another I dug up.
@@loweedwards7807 my question is why even send it to Phawx in the first place? And why him? He's got less than 100k subs, he's one of many tech reviewers on TH-cam. He's not Linus Tech Tips or MKBHD or Dave2D though.
@@aznsensation44 Yes, weird that Smach Z was not sent to more reviewers. Not sure but likely because of some agreements in order to get a unit reviewed? Notice Phawx never tried installing other operating system like Linux also like in some of his other reviews, since Smach Z was supposed to be able to run Linux based Smach OS which had never been seen at all. Probably he cannot change much of anything within the preinstalled custom software and operating system except play around with BIOS settings. I think its all about controlling the media, by Smach Z team. The other big time reviewers had more say and would probably tried something that would most likely brick the unfinished hardware resulting in scathing reviews.
Interesting
Were there more videos by The Phawx about the Smach Z? I seem to remember one where he addressed some of StopDropRetro's claims. I wonder why he deleted them?
There was at least two more videos. One of them being a disassembly.
There were more yes but this is the only one I found archived
I just found out the phaxw had his other videos archived and posted them on internet archive a while back.
I can get you the link if you want it.
@@stevemclovin1566 I would love that, yes please!
DO ANYONE KNOW WHO STILL HAS A WORKING PROTOTYPE??
As far I know all the backers that pre ordered a Smach Z got one, it appears that is a piece of junk that overheats and drain the battery extremely fast.
I would suggest the Smach Z reddit or the discord server, be careful tho, since the censorship is North Korea levels there.
No i think smach z don't shipment to any buyer, this is a prototipe, the Best scam of story they start at 2015 and don't refund, in 2018 they present a Windows tablet motherboarb atached to the console 😂
I remember someone in the discord saying he sold it to someone else.
This prototype last time I heard Phawx was donating it to the video game history museum
@@somerandomguy1470 None of the backers got any units even after begging Smach Z team to send them the unfinished prototype with flawed casing, that tiny dent one. Smach Z team has been definitely hiding something since the start of crowdfunding. Phawx has the only one, and its really unfinished and still a prototype.
I remember this machine will be the gpd win killer 😂
It's so scuffed, especially how the controls are just bound to keyboard keys. This was nowhere near ready for launch.
Running Windows what's the battery life like?
A little over 2 hours.
Based, thank you. Despite what happened, this is a piece of handheld pc history.
Hoy much you buy
I didn't. Its a reupload.
Do you recommend buying it? Does it run games like Zelda, Minecraft, FIFA 24, Redemption, Guns, Impact, Hogwarts Legacy, Resident Evil 4, Little Nichtmares Hollow Knight, Among Us? And what is the price of the device in general?@@somerandomguy1470
And it never came out
looks terrible
Why