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this just in the price is 700 and it crushes the steam deck go buy one that's

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what I'm gonna be doing dbrand sponsored this video and sucks to be them because

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this is all they get a 30 second clip of me telling you to go to Best Buy and buy

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an Rog Ally which is especially funny because they

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don't even make skins for it yet I'm kidding of course you guys are

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getting a full video and it's gonna be a long one that dives into what makes the

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Ally great and address the inexcusable

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BS that ASUS dished out during the device preview for this thing custom SOC

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uh no ASUS says that at 15 watts they

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are up to 50 percent faster than the steam deck and at 35 Watts they are

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double the performance those are some

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big asterisks you guys oh right and you

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completely failed to mention that you get beat at 10 watts but hey

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you are still walking right you better be because these things are

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going to sell out immediately the Z1 extreme SOC at its heart packs eight

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then four cores and rdna3 Graphics an

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ASUS has paired it with 16 gigs of

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high-speed ddr5 memory and a 512 gig Gen

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4 NVMe SSD all for just fifty dollars

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more than a top spec steam deck

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there's just one incy Wincy problem with

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our limited time we made the call to test fewer games at more power profiles

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and I'm really glad we did because we found some interesting stuff like the

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fact that at 10 watts the steam deck mops the floor with the Ally somehow

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Metro Exodus Forza Horizon 5 and

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returnal all saw basically half the performance in both average FPS and one

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percent lows showing that again no matter what kind of Hardware anyone

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seems to cook up the steam deck just crushes the rest of the field in the

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super low power draw weight class I don't know what kind of Wizardry valve

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is employed here but it is unbelievable until we add a bit more juice where

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their advantage completely disappears at

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15 watts Fort says one percent lows are

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now double the other way offering a much

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smoother and more responsive gaming experience on the Ally and all three

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games saw the Ally take a sizable performance lead here anywhere from

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around 15 to 20 on average now that's

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not really the up to 50 Improvement that

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we were told before but it's still better than a kick in the teeth now it

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is possible that at low settings we might see a different story or maybe if

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we tested many more games but we felt like these were pretty representative

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titles and 720p medium was a fair reference point for both consoles what

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isn't fair is how hard the Ally starts dunking on the competition at 25 watts

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we saw anywhere between a 40 and nearly 70 percent Advantage across our test

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Suite which to be fair isn't quite Apples to Apples the steam deck runs at

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800 P rather than 720p but in the real

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world I would much rather have the smoother gaming experience than the

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extra little bit of vertical height it's not small like it's the difference

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between playing on medium and playing on Ultra it's the difference between

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playing at 30ish FPS and playing at

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almost 60 FPS and it gets even better

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you can take this thing with you anywhere but if you happen to be plugged

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in ASUS offers a 30 watt turbo mode that widened the Gap substantially in at

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least one of our test cases look at this this is Metro Exodus a

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visually impressive AAA title released just a few years ago and it's running on

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medium settings at 100 FPS on average on

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a handheld I guess Jesus finally did find incredible now one similarity

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between the two devices is the battery both are packing 40 watt hours and at 15

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watts which is a good Power Balance for both of them and matched screen

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brightness at 60 hertz we found that the steam deck's performance was a little

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bit longer however it's worth noting that the steam decks included charger is

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only 45 Watts Max versus the Allies 65

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watt charger so the Ally crushes the deck when it comes to charging time

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unless of course you upgrade to a third-party charger but by the time you

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do that well you might as well have paid the extra money and gotten one of these

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because here's something the steam deck can't upgrade to 1080p baby and not only

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is the Ally is display higher resolution it it also 120 hertz and while many I

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dare say even most of the games that you'll wind up playing on these devices

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won't reach such high frame rates whether it's due to Performance or due

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to frame rate limiters some of them will and even for those that won't it also

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supports variable refresh rate to reduce screen tearing leading to a much

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smoother and more enjoyable experience in everything from games to Steam Big

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Picture Mode ASUS Armory crate or even plain old Windows 11. more on Armory

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created Windows later though because I'm not done talking about how great this

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display is ASUS advertises seven millisecond pixel response times but we

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measured an average of 4.4 with virtually no overshoot I just can't get

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over how smooth this thing is or how beautiful the colors are we didn't quite

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reach the 100 coverage of the srgb color space that they advertise but 95 is not

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only not bad it trounces the steam decks

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easily 73 percent resulting in a noticeably richer more vibrant picture

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that really Pops at least as long as you keep it protected with the tempered

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glass screen protector from dbrand there I mentioned you guys alright this is

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especially true if you crank the brightness to 500 nits which makes it

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genuinely playable Outdoors on a sunny day at least for a little while it's

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worth noting that like the steam deck if you crank everything especially the 120

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hertz refresh rate you're not going to be gaming for very long under the shade

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of that tree the display is surprisingly color accurate too though managing an

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average Delta e of just 3.6 but it's

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worth noting that both of our devices skewed a little bit cooler in color

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temperature and adjusting the color temp on the Ally Only seems to bump up the

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Reds a bit so we'd recommend leaving it on default now since Cal man isn't

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supported on Linux right now we have limited means of measuring the deck's

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color accuracy but I can tell you that with its much worse color gamut it it is

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certain to be worse one thing we were able to compare though is brightness the

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steam deck is advertised as 400 nits typical but we've actually measured over

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550 nits on two separate decks which

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clearly beats even the impressive 500 nits that we measured on the Ally Why

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valve is advertising it solo we have no idea but side by side the steam deck is

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visibly brighter if only by a bit the

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deck also gets dimmer than the Ally 2 though something that I care about a lot

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as someone who games in bed late at night we measured just 4.6 nits minimum

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on the steam deck and 14 on the Rog Ally

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to be clear both are really good but once again valve is cooking up a secret

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sauce that I wish the competition could match fortunately for ASUS they have

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their own secret sauce there's zero gravity thermal system as stupid as that

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sounds it works while both devices stay

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cool inside and out the Ally stays cooler where it matters the most under

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your hands and this is largely thanks to the addition of a second heatsink under

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the hood that gets its own dedicated vent at the top now don't get me wrong

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the exhaust on the Ally gets hot especially if you're gaming in turbo

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mode where the whole device can drop to 48 watts

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feels like a hair dryer but what's great

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is that the vents are positioned in such a way that it shouldn't ever bother you

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and I'm much happier with all the heat venting away from the device instead of

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spreading through the Plastics into my hands it's almost as comfortable as our

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now most impressively the Ally does all of this while staying shockingly quiet

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and I can't express how big of a difference this makes I mean I can show

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you these graphs where you can see this bump at around 800 Hertz that represents

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the wine of the steam deck fan Apologies by the way for our high noise floor here

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we're still waiting on our acoustic testing chamber but the bump doesn't

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tell the experiential story and it's

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huge like it's the difference between me recommending that you play with

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headphones on and telling you to put your headphones away and just listen to

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these awesome speakers that was another pleasant surprise it doesn't get talked

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about much but valve is really good at audio and somehow the Ally manages to be

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even better the steam deck gets a touch louder but the Allies frequency response

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is more balanced and it doesn't need that extra punch to drown out its stupid

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fan it kind of feels like the deck is the beta and the Ally is the final

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release here at least on the hardware

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side another area where the deck still wins handily is ease of use admittedly

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to those of you who are new to steamos or handhelds in general there is still a

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learning curve here it's just a lot smoother than Armory crate SC ASUS's

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proprietary software that's used to quickly change settings and access all

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of your games in one place I think the best thing I could say about Armory

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crate SE is it's not nearly as awful as

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I expected the leading games from the game library though doesn't also

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uninstall them and if you uninstall something it doesn't get automatically

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deleted from the game Library opening Armory crate also doesn't pause your

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game which could lead to some mistakes since the button for it is right below

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the start button if you use the game Library rather than just Steam Big

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Picture for some reason the background behind your game tiles will change as

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you select each game which I guess is a cool enough idea yeah but in practice

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it's a blurry mess and super distracting it ends up feeling more like a bug than

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a feature another small but Annoying

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issue is the contents of the content menu why are things like update center

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help center and system specs in content rather than in settings I mean it's not

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the end of the world it's just weird and if we use ASUS's other button

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on the left side of the screen it opens Command Center where you can quickly

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change things like your operating in control modes your refresh rate your FPS

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limiter Etc really cool it even lets you

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customize the tiles but then when you use a tile it opens a new window it

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doesn't automatically select that window so you open a keyboard or your game

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profiles you gotta hit a button or tap the screen first before you start using

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that window on the subject of Windows in spite of Microsoft's 10 years of effort

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the touchscreen experience is not great to overcome this the Ally

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comes with joy to mouse support but it's a little bit finicky not only did the

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auto control mode not always swap elegantly when we switched over to the

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desktop but manually changing to desktop mode would sometimes take tapping on the

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screen to get it to register that pressing the thumbstick means that I

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want a cursor then if you swap back to Gamepad mode after you have a cursor

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sometimes it'll just stay there except now you can't control

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the pointer anymore I mean these are minor gripes that I

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fully expect to improve over time the deck had all kinds of Gremlins in the

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software at launch too but you're not buying this for what it will be you're

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buying it for what it is and valve's put

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in a lot of work that ASUS simply hasn't yet that doesn't mean this is a clear

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win for valve though the Ally enjoys some big advantages like the ability to

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use any game launcher or anti-cheap that you want or rather are forced to use and

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the ability to install apps the same way that you would on a regular desktop

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computer you want Discord simple want to

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do some video editing on the go sure thing just I hope you plan to plug in

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your own peripherals there are rumors that Microsoft is working on some kind

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of handheld gaming mode for Windows but for now in most applications you can

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have fun clicking on a text box opening Command Center to open the keyboard

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closing Command Center typing without being able to see the text box so

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hopefully you didn't make a mistake closing your keyboard and and then

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pressing enter to add your username

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awesome in all seriousness you can speed up this

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process a bit by mapping actions to any of the buttons for both Gamepad and

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desktop mode which is great personally when I want to access the keyboard I

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swipe up a couple times from the bottom and then press it in the system tray it's just that no matter what your ugly

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workaround is the current implementation can be annoying to the point where you

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just want to take the device and throw it at the wall

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and then you take a few deep breaths you go hey

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at least I'm not on proton DB right now checking to see if my game is supported

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at all now we already talked about this in our

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preview video but if the steam deck feels too big and unwieldy for you the

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Ally wins again it's 61 grams lighter which isn't which is a ton but it's

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enough to feel significant and we had a few people who daily Drive the steam

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deck hold it in their hands and it's unanimous the Rog Ally is more

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comfortable there are drawbacks no touch pads no 16x10 display and the face

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buttons are not great I managed to get

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the x button jammed on mine at least a dozen times on my playthrough of stray

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on the Ally and I hoped that the production version would be a bit better

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but the bad news is it's not

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well maybe a little better oh it's jammed

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yeah maybe a little bit of lube would help but I told them when they came in I

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was like you guys need to fix this in the final tooling and it's pretty clear

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based on how similar this is to our prototype it was already pretty much

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mass production for General use both offer desktop modes and hooking up to a

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dock is just one cable which is sick but

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the Ally once again takes the game to a whole different level its interface is

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proprietary that's bad but their XG mobile external gpus get twice the

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bandwidth of usb4 or Thunderbolt that's good they're only available with

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expensive Mobile gpus in them that's bad but they allowed nearly desktop like

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performance on the sort of go that's

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really cool and it could be even better

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if Jesus would pull their heads out of their Collective butts and make a

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desktop GPU compatible enclosure that can use this XG mobile interface

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the Ally isn't perfect the onboard Wi-Fi 6E is ripping fast but it's soldered to

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the board so dead Wi-Fi equals dead motherboard and so far ASUS hasn't

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announced any kind of iFixit partnership like valve has and can I just say I

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really don't understand why they couldn't do a full-length m.2 SSD in

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here there seems to be ample space but it's a big Improvement in some of the

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most important ways while coming in at a price that could best be described as

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disruptive most consoles are initially

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sold at a loss and the hope is that you'll make the money back selling games

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and subscriptions on the platform in valve's case the math is pretty simple

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steam rakes in butt loads of money through both games and microtransactions

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so it makes perfect sense that they sell the steam deck for as low as 400 dollars

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but most people aren't buying that one

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for most people they want a substantial sized SSD and that's where the Ally gets

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price competitive which is surprising I mean to be clear I'm sure ASUS is making

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money from the Ally fundamentally it's what is it it's a Chromebook with a

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decent SOC in it but I'm willing to bet they're not making much which might

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explain why they begged us to show their XBox controller clone in the preview

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video even though it wasn't even a working sample by the way we have a

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working one now and it's pretty cool I guess

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ASUS's big Advantage seems to be their

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volume I mean compared to valve I think they're moving a lot of steam decks but

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we can tell from the crowdfunding campaigns of competitors like Aya Neo

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and GPD that those guys are expecting to

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sell thousands of units of a given system and those thousands of units have

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to cover tooling costs marketing and r d for the Next Generation product

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to undercut them by literally four hundred dollars at the same spec ASUS

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needs to move a lot more than thousands of units they need to move hundreds of

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thousands of units the good news phrase is though is that

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they will eventually because I strongly recommend

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this thing at least I do until more competition shows up but because of that

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recommendation the fact that this thing is so competitive

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bad news is I suspect it's going to be out of stock everywhere for weeks or

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even for months the bright side of that is that hey for

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the time being the steam deck is a much more okay option still than ASUS made it

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out to be its software is more mature it manages better battery life in low power

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mode and it's got a much more robust accessory ecosystem including

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third-party hall effect joysticks and a whole lineup of cool stuff from dbrand

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including their skins screen protectors stick grips and of course their kill

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switch case which is back in stock now we're going to have all that linked down

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below there I mentioned you guys again do I get my check now if you like this

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video be sure to check out the preview to see how the Ally handles gaming with

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an RTX 49d mobile GPU I mean No One's

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Gonna spend that kind of money so we kind of ignored it for the review but send for us fast and this thing can rip

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at least this version of it can you might have noticed we ignored the lower

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end version of the Ally that uses a Z1 non-xtreme processor that's because we

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don't have one yet and also because we kind of agree with ASUS most people are

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probably going to go for this one based on the price and performance difference

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at least on paper I guess we'll see