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ASUS - ROG Ally 7" 120Hz FHD 1080p Gaming Handheld - AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Processor - 512GB - $499.99 - Best Buy

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I bought one of these last night from Best Buy while it was $100 off (making it $549.99). Checked again this morning and it's now $150 off for the Z1 Extreme model. I think this is the cheapest it's been for those of us who don't have Plus or Total Memberships.

It should be noted that this deal also (as of 1/8) comes with a free travel case and 4 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. The device itself comes with 3 months that you can redeem when you launch it, plus Best Buy sends you a code for 1 extra month.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus...Id=6542964
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I bought one of these last night from Best Buy while it was $100 off (making it $549.99). Checked again this morning and it's now $150 off for the Z1 Extreme model. I think this is the cheapest it's been for those of us who don't have Plus or Total Memberships.

It should be noted that this deal also (as of 1/8) comes with a free travel case and 4 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. The device itself comes with 3 months that you can redeem when you launch it, plus Best Buy sends you a code for 1 extra month.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus...Id=6542964

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IdunnoY
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this or steam deck oled?
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ai42
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Quote from IdunnoY :
this or steam deck oled?

Or new legion steamOS variant
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SociableHaddock3665
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Quote from ai42 :
Or new legion steamOS variant

The legion go s uses z2 go processor which seems to be more closer to steam deck amd processor. This one has z1 extreme which is likely faster.

But again, those are just early information. We will need real benchmark to make any judgement.
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atlascore
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Quote from IdunnoY :
this or steam deck oled?
I've owned this, legion go, and now a steam deck. I really like the steam deck. It's a great user experience. Everything feels "right". It's also the most comfortable of the three by far. Although, with the right case, the ROG Ally can be great to hold for extended periods of time. If you have game pass and would like a desktop experience on the go, I would go for this.
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I bought the Ally X for my son for Christmas. Right out of the box, it felt like it came from Wish. Windows was so unbelievably buggy and clunky. After windows updated, it basically soft locked my device. It was so slow it took 15 minutes to turn off some setting to make it run again.
Regardless of that, the unit never knew if it wanted to run in gamepad mode or desktop mode. Applications would crash constantly. Slime Rancher results in a frozen black screen every time you loaded it. Emu controls were a mess. Charging it results in it turning into a strobe light. It would turn off/on all night long. Sleep mode never worked, it would turn on by itself. It would log me out of windows constantly closing all my apps. Touch screen unresponsive very often. If you turned the screen off, it would die in 2 hours. It would also die in an hour playing Roblox from full battery. Roblox constantly had errors logging you out. Navigating windows was a nightmare. And it would randomly turn itself completely off constantly. This was all happening running retro Nintendo emus, slime rancher, Stardew Valley, and Roblox. No high resource games.

I ordered a Steam Deck. I am awaiting it's arrival. From what I've read, SteamOS is build specifically for the device so it is much more seemeless. Just sharing my experience. Maybe mine was defective.
What part of it felt cheap? I've had this version and the X, but never had any of those issues. Many of the ones you listed as issues are just options you turn off/on in settings. It's nearly impossible to kill the battery in 1hr even at the full 25w mode. I'm frequently on the subreddits and FB group and have not seen anything resembling your experience. Some of it might be a lemon issue, but some of this is a user problem too. The SteamDeck is probably easier for people who don't care to go into some settings to change a couple of things around and get scared of one bad unit. You could have just exchanged it. Good luck with the SD
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Quote from Indictment :
I bought the Ally X for my son for Christmas. Right out of the box, it felt like it came from Wish. Windows was so unbelievably buggy and clunky. After windows updated, it basically soft locked my device. It was so slow it took 15 minutes to turn off some setting to make it run again.
Regardless of that, the unit never knew if it wanted to run in gamepad mode or desktop mode. Applications would crash constantly. Slime Rancher results in a frozen black screen every time you loaded it. Emu controls were a mess. Charging it results in it turning into a strobe light. It would turn off/on all night long. Sleep mode never worked, it would turn on by itself. It would log me out of windows constantly closing all my apps. Touch screen unresponsive very often. If you turned the screen off, it would die in 2 hours. It would also die in an hour playing Roblox from full battery. Roblox constantly had errors logging you out. Navigating windows was a nightmare. And it would randomly turn itself completely off constantly. This was all happening running retro Nintendo emus, slime rancher, Stardew Valley, and Roblox. No high resource games.

I ordered a Steam Deck. I am awaiting it's arrival. From what I've read, SteamOS is build specifically for the device so it is much more seemeless. Just sharing my experience. Maybe mine was defective.
Hmm, mine worked great. And smooth. I also avoided the micro sd card. I docked it in tv and used Xbox controllers. Minecraft initially was choppy but turns out bc of nvidia ray tracing. I used others and was fine. Used the cloud to renew windows, it's like the version made for ally.

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NeoHyper64
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Sam's Club had this for $379 over the holidays... I know because I bought one. It's a great unit, even if it's not the higher-end "X" model that has more ram and a larger battery (both have the same processor). You can dual boot and setup Bazzite OS, giving it the same functionality as a Steam Deck with the option to boot into Windows and runs those games, instead. It's basically the best all-around handheld available right now.
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floodgates has been opened for gaming handhelds. so many to choose from.
it's up for customers to decide which brand are they going to buy.
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