WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.759 the Prototype inside this box was flown 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:09.420 and hand delivered to me by ASUS and I can tell you with certainty that while 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:16.920 I'm not allowed to tell you the exact specs this is not just another steam 00:00:13.139 --> 00:00:19.500 deck clone because it's more like two 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:24.480 steam deck clones they are claiming literally double the performance twice 00:00:22.439 --> 00:00:29.279 the refresh rate more than double the resolution and I am one of only two 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 00:00:32.279 --> 00:00:37.500 the only one who gets to show you our sponsor 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:41.040 Zoho one who's here to help you take your business to the next level their 00:00:39.420 --> 00:00:44.579 all-in-one software suite has everything you need to streamline your operations 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:48.719 and boost productivity from CRM to finance marketing to HR Zoho one has got 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 00:00:51.059 --> 00:00:57.960 it would be pretty easy to assume that ASUS simply saw the steam deck thought 00:00:55.199 --> 00:01:03.059 yeah we could do that and then sharted out the RNG Ally but their team has 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:07.380 actually spent the last 10 years working on various handheld console Concepts 00:01:05.100 --> 00:01:10.740 just waiting for an opening in a difficult Market that is chewed up and 00:01:08.939 --> 00:01:13.680 spit out numerous experienced players over the years and the biggest thing 00:01:12.299 --> 00:01:18.780 that proves this isn't just another copycat design is what I'm doing right 00:01:15.900 --> 00:01:23.100 now ASUS obsessed over how people actually use these handheld devices 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 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:33.840 too small and they want them to be genuinely comfortable to hold now when 00:01:30.299 --> 00:01:36.060 you first pick up the Rog Ally it isn't 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:41.040 very comfortable to be perfectly honest with you I have a hard time reaching the 00:01:37.979 --> 00:01:42.420 shoulder buttons and these bottom 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:47.460 corners here just like kind of dig into my head but then watch this 00:01:45.140 --> 00:01:52.140 and it's perfect these little Contours here at the bottom 00:01:49.979 --> 00:01:56.939 right and left are designed for the device to be held at an angle with the 00:01:54.960 --> 00:02:00.600 screen actually facing your face and in many cases resting either on the desk in 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 00:02:03.060 --> 00:02:09.060 layout we've got our start and select here and here or whatever Microsoft 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:12.180 calls those buttons I actually don't know what these other buttons do oh I 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:15.840 guess we're gonna oh okay so that switches between Windows 00:02:14.580 --> 00:02:20.760 and your game quick switcher and oh that brings up 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:25.860 their Command Center oh I really like this quick switcher between uh Mouse 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:29.540 mode is this is this to make it like a keyboard jointed mouse or whatever 00:02:29.640 --> 00:02:36.840 cool okay quick toggle between 16 120 hertz 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 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 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:49.800 games particularly emulated games enthusiasts that you totally could run 00:02:47.580 --> 00:02:54.120 at 120 frames per second and would totally run on this Hardware especially 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:57.720 this Hardware I am loving these RGB joysticks in terms of buttons the good 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 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 00:03:04.440 --> 00:03:09.540 with the steam deck they're not hall effect which means that even though you 00:03:07.739 --> 00:03:14.400 can calibrate the zero point so you shouldn't suffer from drift 00:03:11.700 --> 00:03:18.120 not Cottonwood uh you can't fully eliminate dead zones and they might not 00:03:16.140 --> 00:03:22.800 have the same level of durability deep pad feels 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 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 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 00:03:36.420 --> 00:03:41.519 should be noted that this is a prototype device and I would love for that to 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:46.080 improve assistant 00:03:44.099 --> 00:03:51.000 now that I'm in position the shoulder and Trigger buttons are very easy to 00:03:48.420 --> 00:03:56.040 access these seem like analog triggers though they haven't confirmed that for 00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:57.480 me yet and like the steam deck and 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 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:06.720 device though not as many as the steam deck this 00:04:04.980 --> 00:04:11.939 looks flipping awesome I'm not allowed to show 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:19.799 you guys FPS but ASUS says that at 15 watts they are 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 00:04:23.580 --> 00:04:30.540 performance at seven inches 1080p looks 00:04:28.220 --> 00:04:35.100 crazy Sharp okay if this is running variable refresh 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 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:43.919 running at because if it dips below the panel's variable refresh rate range then 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 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 00:04:49.919 --> 00:04:55.680 45 FPS down to it's probably dipping to 00:04:54.240 --> 00:05:00.540 about 20 and that's where I'm really seeing those stutters no matter how you 00:04:58.259 --> 00:05:06.300 slice it though this is incredibly impressive we're not even in game yet I 00:05:04.020 --> 00:05:10.020 am loving this display okay not only does it run at a higher resolution than 00:05:07.919 --> 00:05:14.460 the steam deck it also hits a peak of 500 nits which is more than 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 00:05:16.979 --> 00:05:22.139 rated at just seven milliseconds for the pixel response times now that doesn't 00:05:20.520 --> 00:05:25.860 sound that impressive compared to some of the latest gaming monitors that 00:05:23.580 --> 00:05:30.240 boasting sub 1 millisecond response times but you got to understand that 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:34.139 even on something like a gaming laptop the native pixel response time is going 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:39.240 to be pretty similar to this they're just overdriving those pixels so this is 00:05:36.419 --> 00:05:44.759 going to be at least a clean seven milliseconds which at 60 hertz is going 00:05:42.539 --> 00:05:51.900 to look great and 120 hertz should be okay while this is running really smooth 00:05:49.380 --> 00:05:56.520 I wasn't even thinking about it which is the mark of good 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 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:04.740 toggle to manual mode as well once I configure my manual mode I should be 00:06:02.340 --> 00:06:10.979 able to just toggle the manual mode dude though this is so smooth 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:17.060 if you play lighter games Indie Games emulated games oh 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:22.680 120 hertz makes so much sense I'm all the way back down 00:06:20.039 --> 00:06:27.060 to 15 watts performance mode and this is still an outstanding experience it's 00:06:25.380 --> 00:06:31.680 everything it's just it's the responsiveness it's being able to nail 00:06:29.699 --> 00:06:35.759 the timing it's the smoothness of the animations if you're playing lighter 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:41.580 games you know retro games emulated games there's just no comparison here 00:06:38.660 --> 00:06:46.979 really at 15 watts you guys are rating this at 20 decibels I mean 00:06:43.979 --> 00:06:48.600 yeah I believe it and we've got some 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 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 00:06:56.039 --> 00:07:04.020 quiet can we play something like a rhythm game on this and actually enjoy 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.860 it unlike on the steam dark 00:07:04.020 --> 00:07:08.540 foreign but 00:07:07.380 --> 00:07:14.699 um these speakers sound great though I've 00:07:12.900 --> 00:07:17.180 only got this at about 30 percent right now what 00:07:20.060 --> 00:07:27.199 that is a very full sound considering 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.199 the size of this device 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:34.740 all right it's not like I don't have any 00:07:32.699 --> 00:07:39.300 complaints right no hall effect joysticks for example but ASUS pointed 00:07:37.020 --> 00:07:42.599 out that they are very replaceable so it wouldn't be a surprise if third-party 00:07:41.039 --> 00:07:46.620 options did show up I didn't notice the weight but they 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:51.419 wanted me to mention that it's exactly 608 grams which is apparently a lucky 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:54.479 number or something like that the triggers and shoulders no longer 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 00:07:56.099 --> 00:08:02.340 stabilization of these improve okay let's change gears though and talk about 00:07:59.699 --> 00:08:06.599 cooling the way that they achieve this level of quiet aside from just putting 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:11.699 in a quality thermal solution instead of like weird janky fans that make a lot of 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:14.039 noise is by using a heat pipe with a two 00:08:11.699 --> 00:08:19.080 element heatsink so that's why it's got two exhausts over here and two separate 00:08:16.860 --> 00:08:23.220 intakes they managed to pack two fans into this thing in addition to this 00:08:21.180 --> 00:08:27.180 Hardware that is double the performance of the steam deck under ideal conditions 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 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:36.659 we've got a Micro SD slot uhs2 pretty 00:08:33.479 --> 00:08:38.880 cool a really funky looking USBC Port 00:08:36.659 --> 00:08:43.260 we'll talk more about that later volume buttons as well as a fingerprint sensor 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 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:51.240 when you turn on the device and then logs all the way into your Windows 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 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 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 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 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:11.160 2230 sized SSD so likely it'll ship with 00:09:09.060 --> 00:09:15.240 one terabyte Max storage and the second is that the battery capacity should be 00:09:13.260 --> 00:09:20.279 pretty competitive with the steam deck what I want to know though is does it 00:09:17.700 --> 00:09:25.740 fit in the little handheld storage spot on our backpack 00:09:22.220 --> 00:09:27.779 lttstore.com oh this is not the standard 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 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:37.260 same size and the answer is okay remember how I was going to talk 00:09:34.740 --> 00:09:44.220 about that funky USBC connector that was like three times as wide 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:46.260 the Ally has no Thunderbolt or usb4 and 00:09:44.220 --> 00:09:52.560 that's because of that connector it's ASUS XG mobile connection and it allows 00:09:49.740 --> 00:09:55.500 you to plug in an external GPU like this one 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:59.100 there is a part of me that wishes it was Thunderbolt because that would make it 00:09:56.940 --> 00:10:04.019 compatible with third-party GPU docs rather than just this one but there is 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 00:10:07.680 --> 00:10:15.839 whole bunch of Thunderbolt protocol overhead so what that means is a unlike 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:20.880 Thunderbolt there's actually a point in connecting an RTX 4090 mobile to this 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:26.940 thing it shouldn't be nearly as bottlenecks I absolutely love the XG 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 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 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 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 00:10:43.260 --> 00:10:50.399 doubt in my mind that it's because of NVIDIA NVIDIA is extremely fussy about 00:10:48.180 --> 00:10:55.019 the products that their gpus are built into and they have arbitrary rules like 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 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 00:11:01.500 --> 00:11:07.740 will only ever run plugged into the wall 00:11:04.680 --> 00:11:11.160 so in my mind Jesus got to work with AMD 00:11:07.740 --> 00:11:14.100 then to use desktop class gpus in I mean 00:11:11.160 --> 00:11:18.720 maybe a slightly larger enclosure or build compatibility with the XG mobile 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:23.880 interface into their egpu Thunderbolt enclosures for regular graphics cards 00:11:21.060 --> 00:11:30.300 that would make the XG mobile affordable and upgradeable because right now it's 00:11:27.180 --> 00:11:32.760 neither which is a shame because 00:11:30.300 --> 00:11:37.260 with it you can easily turn this thing into the switch Pro that the market is 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 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:43.500 uh this isn't one of them but 00:11:41.640 --> 00:11:47.279 this is how the hell do I pronounce this right Curie Pro 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 00:11:50.040 --> 00:11:55.160 same layout as an Xbox controller but it's slightly smaller because some 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 00:11:58.380 --> 00:12:06.000 well as these adjustable uh whether you want the trigger to work as a trigger or 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:09.120 as just a another shoulder button little switches I forget what these are called 00:12:07.140 --> 00:12:13.079 but they also wanted me to show off this thing this is actually a super cool 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 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 00:12:21.180 --> 00:12:26.940 really compact I would use the right Geary but it's apparently an engineering 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 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:35.519 what I've seen from Zen 4 so far and its efficiency 00:12:33.060 --> 00:12:39.140 I'm going ultimate 4K with this mobile 4090 I mean it should work right 00:12:39.380 --> 00:12:46.380 you know it's funny the ASUS wraps were like yeah we were surprised at how 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 00:12:49.740 --> 00:12:55.740 yeah it's only PCIe gen 3x8 but that's 00:12:52.760 --> 00:12:58.740 lots of bandwidth and because it's not Thunderbolt there's no bi-directional 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:03.000 communication really like it's not outputting over the laptop's display or 00:13:01.079 --> 00:13:07.980 anything like that it's just the outputting to your monitor over HDMI 00:13:05.820 --> 00:13:16.139 or over a DisplayPort it's a plenty fast chip and this CPU 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:20.180 this CPU is clearly fast enough this is 00:13:16.139 --> 00:13:20.180 well over 60 frames per second 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:26.700 I love it when the camera is like this 00:13:24.060 --> 00:13:33.060 this is really great all right come on either way 00:13:29.820 --> 00:13:34.800 this is running amazing 00:13:33.060 --> 00:13:39.660 I mean it should once you've spent probably about twenty five hundred 00:13:36.300 --> 00:13:42.000 dollars but still over the past year 00:13:39.660 --> 00:13:46.079 we've had several other devices hit the market looking to scratch that next-gen 00:13:44.040 --> 00:13:50.160 itch that some of the more Enthusiast level handheld gamers are looking for 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 00:13:52.380 --> 00:13:58.800 daily drive it this is partly because of the loud fan but the size the more 00:13:56.760 --> 00:14:04.079 limited game compatibility and the performance are also factors now 00:14:01.100 --> 00:14:09.660 obviously the price of the steam deck is a major selling point all other things 00:14:05.880 --> 00:14:12.060 being equal but all other things are not 00:14:09.660 --> 00:14:15.540 equal anymore we won't know the exact price of this device until it shows up 00:14:13.740 --> 00:14:20.100 on Best Buy shelves and around the world in the next few months but being this 00:14:18.540 --> 00:14:24.420 much faster all of a sudden it could make sense and 00:14:22.980 --> 00:14:28.500 if you were hoping that valve would simply refresh the steam deck to match 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:33.120 the Allies performance but at their existing price think again recently 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:38.040 valve has gone on the record stating that while they are working on the steam 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 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 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:51.120 strategy then was a big Advantage for them at launch but it's starting to look 00:14:48.779 --> 00:14:55.139 like a liability much like the cycle we see with the traditional console players 00:14:52.980 --> 00:14:59.579 where they launch new console it's absolutely killer compared to a custom 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 00:15:01.560 --> 00:15:08.160 obvious choice until they refresh and so on and so forth so while the seam deck 00:15:05.579 --> 00:15:12.959 did a great job of getting people back into handheld gaming especially playing 00:15:10.260 --> 00:15:17.160 PC games and the low barrier to entry is amazing at 400 dollars 00:15:14.760 --> 00:15:20.459 some of you have more money that you'd like to spend and this is starting to 00:15:18.839 --> 00:15:24.600 look like it could offer enough to justify whatever that higher price is 00:15:22.920 --> 00:15:28.740 there's going to be a lot more for us to cover in the full review the faster UHS 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:32.459 2 micro SD slot for example does it affect loading times I don't know we 00:15:31.139 --> 00:15:36.600 might be able to objectively measure device speakers in our lab by 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