Best Buy has
1TB Legion Go S 8" PC Gaming Handheld (Glacier White, 83L3001VUS) on sale for
$499.99.
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Device Specs:
- 8″ 1920x1200 120Hz VBR 100% sRGB 500 nits touchscreen display (16:10 aspect ratio)
- AMD Ryzen Z2 Go Quad-Core / 8 Thread Processor
- 32GB 6400MHz LPDDR5X RAM
- 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe Solid State Drive / SSD
- AMD Radeon Graphics
- 2x 2W Integrated Speaker System
- 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6E (2x2) | Bluetooth 5.3
- 3-Cell 55.5WHr Battery
- Ports:
- 1x Headphone/mic combo
- 2x USB4 (40Gb/s data transfer w/ DisplayPort 1.4 & Power Delivery 3.0 support)
- MicroSD card reader
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But to run really any modern game you have to put this thing in "performance mode" which uses 25 watt TDP and then you get 90 minutes battery life. And even then in practice it might not perform as well as the Steam Deck (source: RetrogameCorps) even with half the battery life.
The chip in this thing is miserable and it's false marketing to call it a Z2 chip when it's actually a Zen3+ chip while the Z1 Extreme is Zen 4. That's right: the "older" chip in the ROG Ally and original Legion Go is actually newer.
So, you know, personally I wouldn't get it. I would recommend Steam Deck OLED or ROG Ally.
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But to run really any modern game you have to put this thing in "performance mode" which uses 25 watt TDP and then you get 90 minutes battery life. And even then in practice it might not perform as well as the Steam Deck (source: RetrogameCorps) even with half the battery life.
The chip in this thing is miserable and it's false marketing to call it a Z2 chip when it's actually a Zen3+ chip while the Z1 Extreme is Zen 4. That's right: the "older" chip in the ROG Ally and original Legion Go is actually newer.
So, you know, personally I wouldn't get it. I would recommend Steam Deck OLED or ROG Ally.
This is currently the lowest price for this variant, so the $50 price difference would be worth it.
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I agree with OP that, if you want Steam OS, it would make sense to sideload it onto this one. It's officially offered by Valve, and there's a bunch of written and video tutorials to make it less intimidating.
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This is weaker than the original ROG Ally (Z1E) and LegionGo... which are two years old.
Still, the fact it required tuning in Performance mode to even match the Steam Deck means I'd avoid it.
This is currently the lowest price for this variant, so the $50 price difference would be worth it.
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I agree with OP that, if you want Steam OS, it would make sense to sideload it onto this one. It's officially offered by Valve, and there's a bunch of written and video tutorials to make it less intimidating.
I think it holds so much better than the steam deck, legion go, and Ally.
If you want to compare it to a steam deck then install steam os on it first.
Is it going to run comparably on benchmarks to a $1000 handheld or a gaming desktop? Hell no, but it isn't supposed to.
For everyone mentioning running it on highest power and it getting not much battery life... Why would you run it on full brightness with highest power draw? 25w to 15w is usually only 10-15% performance at most. Not worth it especially when most handheld games are not needing the extra power. Who buys a $500 handheld to play competitive new games at high resolution???
Still, the fact it required tuning in Performance mode to even match the Steam Deck means I'd avoid it.
Windows is a big culprit.
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