1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,759 the Prototype inside this box was flown 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:09,420 and hand delivered to me by ASUS and I can tell you with certainty that while 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:16,920 I'm not allowed to tell you the exact specs this is not just another steam 4 00:00:13,139 --> 00:00:19,500 deck clone because it's more like two 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:24,480 steam deck clones they are claiming literally double the performance twice 6 00:00:22,439 --> 00:00:29,279 the refresh rate more than double the resolution and I am one of only two 7 00:00:26,939 --> 00:00:34,200 people outside of ASUS who gets to show off the Rog Ally prototype today and I'm 8 00:00:32,279 --> 00:00:37,500 the only one who gets to show you our sponsor 9 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:41,040 Zoho one who's here to help you take your business to the next level their 10 00:00:39,420 --> 00:00:44,579 all-in-one software suite has everything you need to streamline your operations 11 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:48,719 and boost productivity from CRM to finance marketing to HR Zoho one has got 12 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:52,980 you covered so head to the link below for a free 30-day trial on first glance 13 00:00:51,059 --> 00:00:57,960 it would be pretty easy to assume that ASUS simply saw the steam deck thought 14 00:00:55,199 --> 00:01:03,059 yeah we could do that and then sharted out the RNG Ally but their team has 15 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:07,380 actually spent the last 10 years working on various handheld console Concepts 16 00:01:05,100 --> 00:01:10,740 just waiting for an opening in a difficult Market that is chewed up and 17 00:01:08,939 --> 00:01:13,680 spit out numerous experienced players over the years and the biggest thing 18 00:01:12,299 --> 00:01:18,780 that proves this isn't just another copycat design is what I'm doing right 19 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:23,100 now ASUS obsessed over how people actually use these handheld devices 20 00:01:21,180 --> 00:01:28,080 finding that they don't want them to be too big they also don't want them to be 21 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:33,840 too small and they want them to be genuinely comfortable to hold now when 22 00:01:30,299 --> 00:01:36,060 you first pick up the Rog Ally it isn't 23 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:41,040 very comfortable to be perfectly honest with you I have a hard time reaching the 24 00:01:37,979 --> 00:01:42,420 shoulder buttons and these bottom 25 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:47,460 corners here just like kind of dig into my head but then watch this 26 00:01:45,140 --> 00:01:52,140 and it's perfect these little Contours here at the bottom 27 00:01:49,979 --> 00:01:56,939 right and left are designed for the device to be held at an angle with the 28 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:00,600 screen actually facing your face and in many cases resting either on the desk in 29 00:01:58,979 --> 00:02:05,159 front of you or on your lap in terms of buttons it's a pretty bog standard Xbox 30 00:02:03,060 --> 00:02:09,060 layout we've got our start and select here and here or whatever Microsoft 31 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,180 calls those buttons I actually don't know what these other buttons do oh I 32 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:15,840 guess we're gonna oh okay so that switches between Windows 33 00:02:14,580 --> 00:02:20,760 and your game quick switcher and oh that brings up 34 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:25,860 their Command Center oh I really like this quick switcher between uh Mouse 35 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:29,540 mode is this is this to make it like a keyboard jointed mouse or whatever 36 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:36,840 cool okay quick toggle between 16 120 hertz 37 00:02:34,379 --> 00:02:40,980 refresh rate oh man I have been waiting for someone to do 120 hertz I know it's 38 00:02:38,819 --> 00:02:44,760 worse for battery life okay I know it's more expensive but there are a lot of 39 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:49,800 games particularly emulated games enthusiasts that you totally could run 40 00:02:47,580 --> 00:02:54,120 at 120 frames per second and would totally run on this Hardware especially 41 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:57,720 this Hardware I am loving these RGB joysticks in terms of buttons the good 42 00:02:56,340 --> 00:03:03,180 thing about the joysticks is they're full size so you'll get the same level of control that you would get with a 43 00:03:00,599 --> 00:03:06,180 steam deck the bad news is you'll get the same level of control as you will 44 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:09,540 with the steam deck they're not hall effect which means that even though you 45 00:03:07,739 --> 00:03:14,400 can calibrate the zero point so you shouldn't suffer from drift 46 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:18,120 not Cottonwood uh you can't fully eliminate dead zones and they might not 47 00:03:16,140 --> 00:03:22,800 have the same level of durability deep pad feels 48 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:27,959 solidly okay it's far from the best I felt but it's not nearly the worst 49 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:34,080 and while I'm not a huge fan of long travel abxy buttons these aren't bad I 50 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:37,980 mean I'd say they're about like you'd get on like an Xbox controller though it 51 00:03:36,420 --> 00:03:41,519 should be noted that this is a prototype device and I would love for that to 52 00:03:40,319 --> 00:03:46,080 improve assistant 53 00:03:44,099 --> 00:03:51,000 now that I'm in position the shoulder and Trigger buttons are very easy to 54 00:03:48,420 --> 00:03:56,040 access these seem like analog triggers though they haven't confirmed that for 55 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,480 me yet and like the steam deck and 56 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:02,819 unlike many other competing Windows handhelds on the market they've got additional buttons on the back of the 57 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:06,720 device though not as many as the steam deck this 58 00:04:04,980 --> 00:04:11,939 looks flipping awesome I'm not allowed to show 59 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:19,799 you guys FPS but ASUS says that at 15 watts they are 60 00:04:17,459 --> 00:04:28,220 up to 50 percent faster than the steam deck and at 35 Watts they are double the 61 00:04:23,580 --> 00:04:30,540 performance at seven inches 1080p looks 62 00:04:28,220 --> 00:04:35,100 crazy Sharp okay if this is running variable refresh 63 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:39,600 rate it makes sense that it was so hard for me to nail down what FPS it's 64 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:43,919 running at because if it dips below the panel's variable refresh rate range then 65 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:48,060 it'll really start to chug and as long as it's within that range it's going to 66 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:54,240 look shockingly smooth so if I had to guess I'd say we're seeing anywhere from 67 00:04:49,919 --> 00:04:55,680 45 FPS down to it's probably dipping to 68 00:04:54,240 --> 00:05:00,540 about 20 and that's where I'm really seeing those stutters no matter how you 69 00:04:58,259 --> 00:05:06,300 slice it though this is incredibly impressive we're not even in game yet I 70 00:05:04,020 --> 00:05:10,020 am loving this display okay not only does it run at a higher resolution than 71 00:05:07,919 --> 00:05:14,460 the steam deck it also hits a peak of 500 nits which is more than 72 00:05:12,780 --> 00:05:19,020 I think that's higher than any of the handhelds we've tested recently and it's 73 00:05:16,979 --> 00:05:22,139 rated at just seven milliseconds for the pixel response times now that doesn't 74 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:25,860 sound that impressive compared to some of the latest gaming monitors that 75 00:05:23,580 --> 00:05:30,240 boasting sub 1 millisecond response times but you got to understand that 76 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:34,139 even on something like a gaming laptop the native pixel response time is going 77 00:05:32,639 --> 00:05:39,240 to be pretty similar to this they're just overdriving those pixels so this is 78 00:05:36,419 --> 00:05:44,759 going to be at least a clean seven milliseconds which at 60 hertz is going 79 00:05:42,539 --> 00:05:51,900 to look great and 120 hertz should be okay while this is running really smooth 80 00:05:49,380 --> 00:05:56,520 I wasn't even thinking about it which is the mark of good 81 00:05:53,880 --> 00:06:00,539 okay we're only at 720p though uh you guys need to change it so that I can 82 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:04,740 toggle to manual mode as well once I configure my manual mode I should be 83 00:06:02,340 --> 00:06:10,979 able to just toggle the manual mode dude though this is so smooth 84 00:06:08,639 --> 00:06:17,060 if you play lighter games Indie Games emulated games oh 85 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:22,680 120 hertz makes so much sense I'm all the way back down 86 00:06:20,039 --> 00:06:27,060 to 15 watts performance mode and this is still an outstanding experience it's 87 00:06:25,380 --> 00:06:31,680 everything it's just it's the responsiveness it's being able to nail 88 00:06:29,699 --> 00:06:35,759 the timing it's the smoothness of the animations if you're playing lighter 89 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:41,580 games you know retro games emulated games there's just no comparison here 90 00:06:38,660 --> 00:06:46,979 really at 15 watts you guys are rating this at 20 decibels I mean 91 00:06:43,979 --> 00:06:48,600 yeah I believe it and we've got some 92 00:06:46,979 --> 00:06:53,759 insights to share with you guys on how they're getting it so quiet even though we're not allowed to open it today first 93 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:58,380 though let's see if we're even getting the main benefit of these fans being so 94 00:06:56,039 --> 00:07:04,020 quiet can we play something like a rhythm game on this and actually enjoy 95 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,860 it unlike on the steam dark 96 00:07:04,020 --> 00:07:08,540 foreign but 97 00:07:07,380 --> 00:07:14,699 um these speakers sound great though I've 98 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:17,180 only got this at about 30 percent right now what 99 00:07:20,060 --> 00:07:27,199 that is a very full sound considering 100 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,199 the size of this device 101 00:07:29,639 --> 00:07:34,740 all right it's not like I don't have any 102 00:07:32,699 --> 00:07:39,300 complaints right no hall effect joysticks for example but ASUS pointed 103 00:07:37,020 --> 00:07:42,599 out that they are very replaceable so it wouldn't be a surprise if third-party 104 00:07:41,039 --> 00:07:46,620 options did show up I didn't notice the weight but they 105 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:51,419 wanted me to mention that it's exactly 608 grams which is apparently a lucky 106 00:07:48,660 --> 00:07:54,479 number or something like that the triggers and shoulders no longer 107 00:07:53,099 --> 00:07:58,020 bothered me at all once I was actually playing games but I do want to see the 108 00:07:56,099 --> 00:08:02,340 stabilization of these improve okay let's change gears though and talk about 109 00:07:59,699 --> 00:08:06,599 cooling the way that they achieve this level of quiet aside from just putting 110 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:11,699 in a quality thermal solution instead of like weird janky fans that make a lot of 111 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:14,039 noise is by using a heat pipe with a two 112 00:08:11,699 --> 00:08:19,080 element heatsink so that's why it's got two exhausts over here and two separate 113 00:08:16,860 --> 00:08:23,220 intakes they managed to pack two fans into this thing in addition to this 114 00:08:21,180 --> 00:08:27,180 Hardware that is double the performance of the steam deck under ideal conditions 115 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:33,479 now seems like a good time to talk about i o there's a headphone jack up here 116 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:36,659 we've got a Micro SD slot uhs2 pretty 117 00:08:33,479 --> 00:08:38,880 cool a really funky looking USBC Port 118 00:08:36,659 --> 00:08:43,260 we'll talk more about that later volume buttons as well as a fingerprint sensor 119 00:08:41,339 --> 00:08:47,940 that includes a single sign on I think is what that's called or whatever basically it caches your fingerprint 120 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:51,240 when you turn on the device and then logs all the way into your Windows 121 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:56,279 profile so if you have multiple profiles because you share your device with your kids or your so or whatever you just 122 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:59,459 turn it on and it'll drop you right in your profile they're not letting me show 123 00:08:57,899 --> 00:09:02,580 the motherboard and the internals to you guys but I did see them and there's a 124 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:09,060 couple of things that I'm allowed to share with you first that the SSD is a 125 00:09:05,580 --> 00:09:11,160 2230 sized SSD so likely it'll ship with 126 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:15,240 one terabyte Max storage and the second is that the battery capacity should be 127 00:09:13,260 --> 00:09:20,279 pretty competitive with the steam deck what I want to know though is does it 128 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:25,740 fit in the little handheld storage spot on our backpack 129 00:09:22,220 --> 00:09:27,779 lttstore.com oh this is not the standard 130 00:09:25,740 --> 00:09:32,760 backpack this is a prototype one don't worry too much about that but it's the 131 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:37,260 same size and the answer is okay remember how I was going to talk 132 00:09:34,740 --> 00:09:44,220 about that funky USBC connector that was like three times as wide 133 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:46,260 the Ally has no Thunderbolt or usb4 and 134 00:09:44,220 --> 00:09:52,560 that's because of that connector it's ASUS XG mobile connection and it allows 135 00:09:49,740 --> 00:09:55,500 you to plug in an external GPU like this one 136 00:09:53,399 --> 00:09:59,100 there is a part of me that wishes it was Thunderbolt because that would make it 137 00:09:56,940 --> 00:10:04,019 compatible with third-party GPU docs rather than just this one but there is 138 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:09,000 an advantage to this approach it's PCIe by eight rather than PCIe by four with a 139 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:15,839 whole bunch of Thunderbolt protocol overhead so what that means is a unlike 140 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:20,880 Thunderbolt there's actually a point in connecting an RTX 4090 mobile to this 141 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:26,940 thing it shouldn't be nearly as bottlenecks I absolutely love the XG 142 00:10:24,060 --> 00:10:31,800 mobile on my flow x13 when it works it can be a little bit flaky but the 143 00:10:29,519 --> 00:10:36,000 difference is that ASUS sent me mine I didn't have to pay for it and at the 144 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:41,339 price that this thing costs it is pretty tough to justify to be clear it's not 145 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:44,579 ASUS that I blame for this they won't confirm the real reason but I have no 146 00:10:43,260 --> 00:10:50,399 doubt in my mind that it's because of NVIDIA NVIDIA is extremely fussy about 147 00:10:48,180 --> 00:10:55,019 the products that their gpus are built into and they have arbitrary rules like 148 00:10:52,740 --> 00:10:59,459 well if it's connected to a laptop it has to be a mobile chip even though 149 00:10:57,300 --> 00:11:04,680 we're talking about the XD mobile which isn't really mobile it's a product that 150 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:07,740 will only ever run plugged into the wall 151 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:11,160 so in my mind Jesus got to work with AMD 152 00:11:07,740 --> 00:11:14,100 then to use desktop class gpus in I mean 153 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:18,720 maybe a slightly larger enclosure or build compatibility with the XG mobile 154 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:23,880 interface into their egpu Thunderbolt enclosures for regular graphics cards 155 00:11:21,060 --> 00:11:30,300 that would make the XG mobile affordable and upgradeable because right now it's 156 00:11:27,180 --> 00:11:32,760 neither which is a shame because 157 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:37,260 with it you can easily turn this thing into the switch Pro that the market is 158 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:41,640 so hungry for by the way ASUS asked us to show you a couple of the new products 159 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:43,500 uh this isn't one of them but 160 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:47,279 this is how the hell do I pronounce this right Curie Pro 161 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:52,620 this is their new rikiri Pro it has a screen on it it's almost exactly the 162 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:55,160 same layout as an Xbox controller but it's slightly smaller because some 163 00:11:53,820 --> 00:12:00,899 people find it to be a little bit big and it's got four buttons on the back as 164 00:11:58,380 --> 00:12:06,000 well as these adjustable uh whether you want the trigger to work as a trigger or 165 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:09,120 as just a another shoulder button little switches I forget what these are called 166 00:12:07,140 --> 00:12:13,079 but they also wanted me to show off this thing this is actually a super cool 167 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:18,839 companion for the Ally it allows you to charge the Ally via USBC you also get an 168 00:12:15,959 --> 00:12:22,980 extra USB port and an HDMI output for the Ally just plugged into the wall it's 169 00:12:21,180 --> 00:12:26,940 really compact I would use the right Geary but it's apparently an engineering 170 00:12:24,540 --> 00:12:32,100 unit and does not work yet okay I mean if this is a Zen for mobile CPU based on 171 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:35,519 what I've seen from Zen 4 so far and its efficiency 172 00:12:33,060 --> 00:12:39,140 I'm going ultimate 4K with this mobile 4090 I mean it should work right 173 00:12:39,380 --> 00:12:46,380 you know it's funny the ASUS wraps were like yeah we were surprised at how 174 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:52,760 little bottlenecking there is but mobile 49 is not as fast as a real 40 90. so 175 00:12:49,740 --> 00:12:55,740 yeah it's only PCIe gen 3x8 but that's 176 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:58,740 lots of bandwidth and because it's not Thunderbolt there's no bi-directional 177 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:03,000 communication really like it's not outputting over the laptop's display or 178 00:13:01,079 --> 00:13:07,980 anything like that it's just the outputting to your monitor over HDMI 179 00:13:05,820 --> 00:13:16,139 or over a DisplayPort it's a plenty fast chip and this CPU 180 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:20,180 this CPU is clearly fast enough this is 181 00:13:16,139 --> 00:13:20,180 well over 60 frames per second 182 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:26,700 I love it when the camera is like this 183 00:13:24,060 --> 00:13:33,060 this is really great all right come on either way 184 00:13:29,820 --> 00:13:34,800 this is running amazing 185 00:13:33,060 --> 00:13:39,660 I mean it should once you've spent probably about twenty five hundred 186 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:42,000 dollars but still over the past year 187 00:13:39,660 --> 00:13:46,079 we've had several other devices hit the market looking to scratch that next-gen 188 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:50,160 itch that some of the more Enthusiast level handheld gamers are looking for 189 00:13:47,579 --> 00:13:54,480 and truthfully I am one of them because as much as I love the steam deck I don't 190 00:13:52,380 --> 00:13:58,800 daily drive it this is partly because of the loud fan but the size the more 191 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:04,079 limited game compatibility and the performance are also factors now 192 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:09,660 obviously the price of the steam deck is a major selling point all other things 193 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:12,060 being equal but all other things are not 194 00:14:09,660 --> 00:14:15,540 equal anymore we won't know the exact price of this device until it shows up 195 00:14:13,740 --> 00:14:20,100 on Best Buy shelves and around the world in the next few months but being this 196 00:14:18,540 --> 00:14:24,420 much faster all of a sudden it could make sense and 197 00:14:22,980 --> 00:14:28,500 if you were hoping that valve would simply refresh the steam deck to match 198 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:33,120 the Allies performance but at their existing price think again recently 199 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:38,040 valve has gone on the record stating that while they are working on the steam 200 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:42,600 deck 2 it's not coming for a long time which in valve time is I mean I don't 201 00:14:40,740 --> 00:14:47,040 know let's put it this way we just got Counter-Strike two valve's custom SOC 202 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:51,120 strategy then was a big Advantage for them at launch but it's starting to look 203 00:14:48,779 --> 00:14:55,139 like a liability much like the cycle we see with the traditional console players 204 00:14:52,980 --> 00:14:59,579 where they launch new console it's absolutely killer compared to a custom 205 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:03,300 PC and then it becomes long in the tooth and a custom PC starts to look like the 206 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:08,160 obvious choice until they refresh and so on and so forth so while the seam deck 207 00:15:05,579 --> 00:15:12,959 did a 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