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a new product is supposed to be exciting right I get to tell you about all the

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cool new features like the massively upgraded 80w hour battery the second

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USBC Port that does 40 GB per second and

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can even work with Thunderbolt external gpus and of course the minor

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improvements to everything from buttons to ergonomics to Specs but the Lix is so

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flipping expensive and comes so closely on the heels of the original Ally that

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if I'm anything like you and I've got a first generation Ally with which I do

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I'm looking at this thing going oh my God you want my money again and for a

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10% performance Improvement at 1080p oh

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the battery life guys that's the standout to us this thing manages 14

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hours in our endurance battery life test and 2 hours in our stress test and

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somehow it manages to do that while only being about 11% heavier in fact when I

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did my initial impressions of this I had a hard hard time picking out whether I

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was holding the Ally or the Ally X and a

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big part of that is that they haven't changed the ergonomics that much the ABX

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y buttons sit a little bit more proud to the face the d-pad has been improved

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with more clear delineation between all eight positions and the joysticks have a

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little bit more resistance on them although that does come with a benefit

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they are now rated for 2 and a half times the number of rotations compared

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to the ones on the original Ally we've got Hallett triggers again click here

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nicer feeling shoulder buttons and a big Improvement to the back buttons now they

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can be actuated really however you want you can kind of slide across them you

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can push down on them really like this we've got larger air intakes a thicker

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internal heat pipe and a third exhaust grill that together contributed to both

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quieter and cooler operation in our testing and up at the top for I/O we've

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got a fingerprint sensing Windows hello power button a headphone microphone Jack

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ah yes the micro SD card slot that led

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to so many challenges with the original Ally although to asus's credit they have

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finally addressed that with the community volume rocker and of course

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that second USBC Port that I was really happy to see and normally it doesn't

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matter but every once in a while I run into a situation where I'm like I wish

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the AL had a second USBC Port okay I'm on a plane I got a portable monitor and

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I realized I forgot to bring a dongle that supports pass through charging so I

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had no way to charge the Ally and also output to my portable monitor no one

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seems to feel bad for me okay it's a champagne problem but a problem

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nonetheless and one that Aus has addressed got a 65 W charger which is

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nice to see included at all but doesn't support the maximum charging speed of

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the Alx which is 100 watts and that you're definitely going to want if

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you're ever in a hurry when you're charging because an 80w hour battery is

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flipping big ah yes warranty information

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form awkward there now I'm done with accessories and

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I can get back to what matters the Ally oh okay no I'm sorry there is one two

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more accessories there's no kickstand on the Alx itself but Asus does include

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little cardboard stands and you get two just in case you lose one apparently

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these were included with the original I never noticed maybe because they aren't

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very good you can't even adjust the angle thanks Asus and thanks our sponsor

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single port outputs and it's Compact and Airline safe with a smart display and

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long lasting Samsung batteries you can keep your devices Juiced up anywhere

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grab a Shar geek 140 using the link in the description you know I was expecting

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the display to be the first thing that stood out to me but as I launch Steam

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Big Picture it's actually the speakers they've got a much Fuller sound than the

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original Ally and as one of those monsters who does the vast majority of

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my handheld gaming with speakers rather than headphones I'm sorry sorry sorry

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everyone that makes a pretty big difference to me I'm actually going to go crab Rave before I even fire up a

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game here operating Windows on a handheld gaming PC is always going to be

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awkward that's something that the steam deck just does so much better than any

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Windows handheld can do at this time but one of the reasons that I daily drive an

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ally instead of a steamjack OLED is that game compati ility is damn near perfect

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and that's only going to get better with the improved Hardware in this new

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iteration they still don't compare to something like a Macbook but they're

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definitely better than the old one okay let's uh maybe we'll go Forza you may

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not proceed without being signed into a profile you may not proceed without

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being well what am I allowed to do you may not proceed without there's no

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option to close the game God modern gaming sucks you may not proceed without

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being signed into a profile the device is upgraded it's now available with up

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to a 1 TB SSD out of the box and supports longer 80 mm sticks so that you

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can put in up to an 8 tbte drive it has

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24 gigs of RAM instead of 16 gigs of RAM this time around and it even runs at a

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higher 7500 megat transfers per second

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which when you're using onboard Graphics which uses your system RAM can make a

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significant difference to system performance in fact at 1080p we saw an

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approximately 10% uplift in FPS in games

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however on a device like this you often times wouldn't be running at 1080p you'd

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be running at 720 in order to get the best performance and at 720 we found

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that we ran into other system bottlenecks before that increased memory

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clock speed really made a difference so just like the original Ally it clocks

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down from 30 wats to 25 watts when you're away from the wall even in its

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turbo operating mode but to take advantage of the bigger battery in the

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lower performance modes it goes up to 13

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and 17 rather than 10 and 15 which does

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result in a measurable performance Improvement while still maintaining

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better battery life than the original Ally there's other quality of life

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improvements it's easier to access the SSD for upgrades it runs quieter and the

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display now gets dimmer if you're the kind of person who games in the dark and

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doesn't want to melt your eyes out of their freaking sockets but none of those

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things are big enough to overcome two major obstacles that are facing the Ally

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x one is that the original Ally offers a

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lot of the same experience and two it

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does so at a much lower price the Ally X

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is coming into a Marketplace that is absolutely flush with competition from

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the liks of valve Zotac iono uh Lenovo

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there's so many players in this space now it might still be among if not the

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best handheld gaming PCs but

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$800 before I even put a decent sized SSD in it good Lord what's a one tby

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steam deck OLED $650 and yeah this has advantages but so

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does the steam deck OLED I mean that screen so nice and making things even

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more Awkward we're already starting to see rumors of what the performance of

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rdna 3.5 mobile Graphics are going to be

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now the word on the street and I didn't hear this from Asus is that AMD's

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upcoming STX Point processors that feature those Graphics are going to be

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so expensive that this would have been more like $900 but I've got to wonder

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guys with how much more performance it would offer would that be more

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justifiable as an upgrade as it is now if I'm looking to buy a handheld gaming

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PC and I have a functionally unlimited budget this is going to be a strong if

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not the contender but if I'm upgrading from something older I don't know if it

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has enough on offer I know the battery life damn it the battery life is

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incredible it's so much better than it should be on paper like it's double the

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size and yet it manages three times the real world performance that and I have

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one of the OG allies that has the dimmer 400 nnit screen as it is now the later

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model ones seem to use the same 500 plus knit screen I think only you guys can

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judge is this thing worth the increase I mean yeah sure you get rid of the

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proprietary XG mobile external GPU connector that cost so much but you add

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a Thunderbolt connector that you're going to need an enclosure for for your

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GPU that costs so much it's a really complicated story what's not complicated

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