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I've been put in a really difficult position here I love my Rog Ally it's my

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go-to handheld PC and after spending

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some time previewing the allyx it is so

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much better that what I want to do is the same thing I did last time and tell

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you guys run out and buy it right now but what if ASUS does the same thing as

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last time what if there's a flaw in the hardware and they not only refuse to

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issue a recall but refuse to acknowledge it at all they've got some serious

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commun trust issues to address and my hope is that by the time we release this

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video they will have taken decisive action that I can display on screen

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right now to help set their company on the right path because if they can do

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that the Alli X is sick I mean our

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Hardware isn't technically final but guys they have fixed everything chassis

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more comfortable thumb sticks better materials and replaceable with Hall

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effects from ghil kit expensive XG mobile expansion interface replaced with

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industry standard USB 4 and guys that's just for starters now given that this is

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a preview ASUS wouldn't authorize the publication of graphs but hey they did

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leave the device in our hands and we do have a testing lab so I might make some

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let's call them predictions about performance that are going to blow your

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mind even if you feel like you can't trust Aus right now speaking of

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companies you can't trust how about our sponsor dbrand those freaking guys I

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half expect something to pop out of it and like stick into my eye they recently

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launched their kill switch case for the original Rog Ally and it's getting rave

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reviews over on Reddit it dramatically improves the digging in of the bottom

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corners and the grippiness is just outstanding check out dbrand.com

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Killswitch if you want to grab one for your ally or steam deck or hey if you

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don't want to buy anything and you just want to harass them to make one for the allyx

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let's begin with what the Alli X isn't it isn't the Alli 2 so there's no major

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Leap Forward for gaming performance in order to achieve that ASUS would have

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had to wait for AMD's strix Point mobile chips which would have increased the

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devic's price dramatically it also isn't

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a major leap in screen quality in fact ASUS says that they not only are aren't

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using an OLED display they're using the exact same panel as last time with that

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out of the way there are performance improvements and some of them are big

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we're getting more memory at faster speeds and a truly impressive doubling

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in the rated battery capacity and all of this is somehow without tipping the

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scale it is heavier than both the old Ally and the steam deck OLED but it's

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within Striking Distance of the original steam deck and honestly guys to my hands

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it doesn't really feel that noticeable

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now we were very interested in how gaming battery life would be impacted by

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this changing capacity and here comes my

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first prediction I predict that the Lix will

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not last three times as long as the original but that it will last

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considerably more than twice as long both in endurance and in full stress

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situations so I predict that you will no longer be stuck plugging in if you want

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a game at full performance for longer than about 45 minutes absolute game Cher

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and while we are still limited to AMD's Z1 extreme Apu the additional 8 gigs of

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ddr5 for a total of 24 gigs running at

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7500 megat transfers per second should

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result in a few more FPS in your favorite titles now not every game is

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going to see a big uplift for example I predict that grid Legends will test

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basically the same on both devices but while the unit that I'm holding is still

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defaulting to 10 15 and 25 watts for

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each of the stock power profiles ASUS has told us that the plan is to launch

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the new ally with each profile increased by 2 to three Watts since they've got

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all that extra battery headro now that should result in minor but measurable

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increases across pretty much every

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game let's play with it I got to say the

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color it's not as striking it definitely looks more generic almost like They're

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copying the MSI claw now but white is

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not a good color for something that you're going to have your grimy meat

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hooks all over I want to do a blind test for weight okay okay blindfold me wait

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no I have a better idea I'm going to take this wonderful dip eye hoodie from

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LTT Store.com and do this with it how many

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fingers am I holding up three no he's wrong all right he's blind I'm going to

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have to be careful not to touch the bottoms cuz it's more rounded on the new one I like that way better so I'm just

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going to kind of grab them like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle here's the first one okay so this is one okay okay

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you got that here's the other one oh man

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when I held that first one I was like oh that's definitely the new one but now

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I'm not sure number one feel like I'm at the option okay and

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two this is the original yeah okay

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you're right it's really close let's have a look at some of our other changes

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here I can't say that I particularly know notice the difference in material

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on the joysticks but with that said plof you didn't mention the ring on the top I

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actually really like that how it kind of Cups the tip of your thumb a little bit

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better big fan of that oo and they're

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tighter so you can replace them with

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thumb sticks from ghilly kit but you may not want to at least not until they die

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ABX y button sit a little bit higher you

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know what I think I like that too I remember remember having this debate

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with the Ian Neo guys they switched over to more of a a micro switch style button

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and I was like oh guys I really don't like that and they're like well we do

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and I was like okay cool I guess I'll daily an ally now this is even more

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better for from my perspective ooh triggers are

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bigger ooh yeah that's nice and these

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rear buttons are a lot smaller as someone who doesn't really use them

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honestly I consider that an improvement I'm going to hit them accidentally way

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less often you can actuate them from any

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direction oh oh interesting you can mash

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them like that like that like that or

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like that or just press them yeah the old ones do not have that

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capability more venting cool cool I'll

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never say no to that standing in basically the same spot in Ghost of

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sushima running at 1080p medium without any frame gen or any kind of dynamic res

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ution scaling or anything like that I predict that we will see frame rates

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anywhere from about 5 to 10% better it's

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not a lot and it might not even be the kind of thing that you would notice day

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today but it is measurable even if we

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couldn't measure it it's definitely heavy but so was the old

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Ally I think the deck might be a little stiffer not by much and this is

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technically pre-production but it's good I didn't know notice how much thicker it

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was for how little more it weighs of course ghost of sushima is not a game

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where we're going to be able to take advantage of the high refresh rate display unless we're running it very

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very low detail settings so let's close this down and try something where we can

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all right that is smooth I suspect that

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this is going to be something of a controversial choice because hey the

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steam deck OLED it's OLED it's HDR you

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get none of that here but what you do get is 120 HTS and something that I

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think is maybe more important than any of those things on a handheld you get

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variable refresh rate and when you're going to be dealing with frame rates in

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the 20 to 40

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range it's something that can make a very very noticeable difference in

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animation smoothness how about this ASUS

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two versions H allix allio it's emulation

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guys especially later consoles like the PS3 it's heavy cuz it not only hits the

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GPU hard it hits the CPU super hard as well so having that extra battery man

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makes it a much more viable use case here's Demon Souls running an rpcs 3 am

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I seeing a difference in performance no

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but am I seeing that PS3 emulation is totally a thing on these devices yes now

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guys the keite among you will have probably noticed that in addition to the

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other changes we've talked about already we've now got two USBC ports on the top

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this left one is just USB 3.2 gen

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whatever uh but the one on the right is a full fat Thunderbolt compatible

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hopefully USB 4 port and there are a

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couple of reasons why this is freaking awesome the first is that with two ports

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you're a lot less dock dependent if you want to plug in PC peripherals or in my

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case on that long flight to Japan plug in an external USBC Monitor and charge

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at the same time the second is that the

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ability to plug in an egpu via Thunderbolt will allow you to

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supercharge this thing for gaming on a bigger screen without being stuck paying

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desktop prices for laptop grade XG

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mobile gpus oh and while the battery may

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have doubled charging time hasn't thanks to 100 watts of power delivery Support

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over those USBC ports now unfortunately

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though the included charger didn't get leveled up at the same time so you'll

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need a third party one in order to take advantage of that boo now a second thing

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that you Keen IR probably noticed is that the micro SD card slot has

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moved about that thanks to this article

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from hackaday that was published on May the 4th it looks like someone is finally

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shining a light on what the heck was going on with those Ally failures even

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if ASUS refuses to do so if hackaday is

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correct which I predict that they are

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The Thermals were never the issue the issue is that they used a certain model

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of PTC fuse that is prone to failure now

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we're going to have the article Linked In the description down below and what

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we're also hopefully going to have is a strong decisive statement from ASUS that

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acknowledges the situation and lays out a path forward that takes care of their

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many Ally customers or as I'll be calling them allies in fairness to ASUS

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they have covered the SD failures so far and they've increased the coverage for

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that issue from one year to two but that's not enough what I want to see

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from them here and going forward is better transparency we have no idea what

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percentage of the original allies were or will be affected and ASUS still

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hasn't formally acknowledged that it's a hardware flaw which I predict that it is

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and if it's a hardware flaw that sounds to me like the kind of thing that should

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either be recalled or proactively dealt

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with so until this gets cleared up and ASUS manages to demonstrate that they

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can be trustworthy again it doesn't matter how much I might like the Ally X

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like okay have you guys ever heard someone say don't hate the developer

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hate the studio I feel kind of the same way here the Alli EX Team should be so

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proud of this they should be so proud that they helped ASUS finally find

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incredible but even if I might make the personal choice to buy one I'm not going

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to be able to recommend it even though I really want to I predict that The

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Thermals will improve by more than five but less than 10° thanks to larger heat

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pipes and more fan blades the board and

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Chassis have been redesigned so we can fit a double-sided 2280 SSD and here

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guys you can put up to an 8 terabyte SSD

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in this thing and speaking of capacity it comes with one Tab out of the box now

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which is double the previous generation it's 100 bucks more for fundamentally

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the same cor specs but this is more than

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the sum of its parts which actually I wonder is it more

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serviceable why don't we take it apart find out oo

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wow that's a lot of battery look at it go

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I like this here's the daughter boards for the joysticks so replacing those is

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as simple as I mean what did I take out six screws plus another three per

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daughter board and a little ribbon cable that flipping awesome these fans are

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tiny based on how much quieter it sounded to my ear that is not what I was

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expecting to see I mean how often is that ever happen you make a smaller fan

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make more or less noise like sure I guess so heat pipe sticker there's the

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big SSD slot that is so awesome I I was

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really irrationally so but really upset

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that the original Ally Only supported 2230 it's just like really you can't

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make it just a little bit bigger so we can put a fullsize SSD in this thing and

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they're cheaper too right the 228s just because of the economies of scale they

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they make a lot more of them there's more competition in 2280 vrms have

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thermal scho there one thing I would like to know is if the Wi-Fi card is a

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separate card I doubt it I suspect it's soldered but I wouldn't mind knowing

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that uh Wi-Fi chip is soldered that's

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all I really needed to dig further to find out kind of a bummer we saw this

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with the steam deck where the OLED came in like yeah we've got like way better

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download speeds now dude like yeah but if you had

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just had a mini PCI slot on the board in the first I understand I get it

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integration saves cost you know

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but I would like to see replaceable Wi-Fi modules on these in addition to

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replaceable storage the more I like this thing the more disappointing it is that

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ASUS just can't get their reputation in line I guess the Silver Lining is that

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they've still got time the Alx doesn't actually launch for about another month

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and I'd like for a moment to directly address ASUS leadership here to say that

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I look forward to seeing a commitment to real lasting change and I also look

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maybe take a look at our ion Neo coverage that we've done over the last couple of years they make neat little

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handhelds just even more expensive