Artificial Intelligence (sort of) ;-)

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