here in MSI's Booth they're showing off everything from laptops and monitors to
car chargers but what I wasn't expecting was for them to get into a new category
which is
paint yeah I pulled you into the video just to make that joke sorry cliff in
all seriousness though the MSI claw does a lot more than just change the color of
the existing handheld gaming systems on the market from the outside yeah it
Bears a lot of similarity to a system like the Rog Ally or the steam deck but
on the inside it is running Intel's allnew core Ultra Series processors
which promises some pretty interesting benefits I'll get to that in a bit first
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joysticks and triggers right out of the box with the claw I wasn't expecting
this move after valve stated they opted not to use hall effect joysticks over
reliability concerns but given how much I prefer using them it's definitely a
welcome one to me even if uh I don't know something could go wrong at some
point other than that they've ticked all the important boxes dual stereo
front-facing speakers that are not covered by your palms love to see it an
integrated fingerprint sensor in the power button a Micro SD slot that
uh hopefully it doesn't overheat and
good enough feeling buttons and ergonomics that I don't expect this to
be an issue whether you're more of a rested in front of you gamer sit it in
your lap gamer or just hold it up gamer whether they came up with that on their
own or uh borrowed from their competitors I don't know but
realistically at this point it doesn't matter because there's one other standout Fe feature that I absolutely
love to see because they've gone Intel they have an integrated Thunderbolt for
Port which means that like the Ally you'll be able to run an external
graphics card on the claw but unlike the Ali you're not limited to ASUS's
proprietary XG mobile Graphics interface
now Thunderbolt does have a disadvantage this is Thunderbolt 4 not Thunderbolt 5
so it runs at half of the total Bend with the vusa solution but as long as
you're not hooking a 4080 or a 4090 up to this thing you can still get a
healthy Graphics boost by docking it to a GPU and a part of what enables that is
the strong CPU performance of the meteor Lake core Ultra 5 or core Ultra 7
processors that are at the heart of these things which of course we're about
to take a look at here no no you're not going to break that one what you can try
this one I want the real oh is this just a dummy one no it's actually functional
oh well then why is this a sacrificial lamb because this one is more important
okay fair enough to even get to open it for you guys at all I had to sign away
my life they said they want two free sponsored videos if I break it yep but
you said this one's not important not as important after all the shenanigans I've
gotten up to in their booths over the years I'm surprised they're letting me do this at all but I couldn't resist an
opportunity to show off the very early prototype of our Precision screwdriver
kit coming soon to LTT Store.com and besides a big selling
point of competing handhelds like especially the steam deck is the ease
with which they can be opened up and upgraded or repaired so I would like to
see if that's something that can also be said about the claw we're off to a good
start six screws all of which are the
same oh and a fairly easy single piece
back that gives us let's see wo a dual
heat pipe cooling system love to see it
my goodness no what I didn't even think about it but that was running Assassin's
Creed Mirage and I could I mean I'm in a show Flor but I can barely hear it ah
not bad MSI not bad there's actually a lot to appreciate in here for one thing
look at this battery I was wondering how they packed a
53w hour battery into this thing and I guess the answer is with a really funky
shape but that's a really good thing it contributes to a really even hand feel
and Intel claims will give you a full 2
hours of battery life running Full Tilt at the 35 W maximum TDP that this thing
will do when it's running on battery power they claim more like 8 hours when
it's running in the 10 wat endurance mode and there's more good news the
Wi-Fi module is not soldered and we saw
the importance of this when valve upgraded the steam deck to the steam
deck OLED and we saw a dramatic increase in download speeds when they went from
Wi-Fi 5 to Wi-Fi 6E of course that's
going to be less of an issue on the claw in the first place because it ships with
Wi-Fi 7 meaning you're probably going to run into a CPU bottle next for
downloading games before you max out your Wi-Fi as an added bonus with that
chip while you can use the 32 mm headphone microphone combo Jack it's
Bluetooth 5.4 meaning that with a compatible headset you can expect much
lower latency even over traditionally kind of crappy Bluetooth coming back to
that CPU again there are two different chips that you might find in the MSI
claw the cor Ultra 5 135h or the core
Ultra 7 155h both of them have two of what Intel
are calling low power efficiency cores which are basically just the same as
their regular efficiency cores but built on a different process and tuned to
handle background tasks they both have eight regular efficiency cores and then
the difference is they have either four or six performance or pees so depending
on the AAA games that you might want to play it could make more sense to go for
the 15 155h especially given the relatively low difference in price end
of q1 at three different price points
starting at $699 with the middle one looking like the best one in my mind
because that 512 gig SSD can easily be
upgraded just by removing a few screws and popping in a new 2230 m.2 SSD oh and
all my excitement about the speeds and feeds I kind of glossed over a major
detail the screen is 1080p 120 HZ and
should reach a peak brightness of around 400 to 500 nit so about what you'd
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