| HoloDust said: I guess I would probably use laptop if I traveled and needed to game, but this is more like 15-20 minute bursts in taxi, breaks and that kind of things - for which I find small clamshell handheld perfect fit. As I said, one that can also can run lighter PC games from Steam, along with pretty much everything up to and including Switch, is for me just a perfect fit. If I was in actual market for portables, I would go with GPD Win 5 - I actually like detachable battery design, so you can just swap out another one. OneXPlayer is making 395+ based handheld as well, with detachable liquid cooling no less, which can actually run at up to full 120W...on a battery of 85W, which is pointless, but hey, they're doing it anyway. AYANEO is still to reveal its 395+ based handheld. |
I think I'll wait for AMD to make a proper handheld chip that's a good jump over the Z1E. The 395+ is very impressive but not something I want in a handheld. If you are going to use it docked regularly as well and want a decently powered desktop experience I guess it's a good fit. It's performance is still pretty good at 28w, It's a 36% jump over the Win4 8840u in 3dmark with both running at 28w. But I imagine it drops off very hard the lower you go and could end up in a situation like what happens to the Z1E when you drop it to 15w and lower, where efficiency drops off a cliff and steam deck can start outperforming it. Also I'm not in the market for a $1.5k+ device lol.
Personally I think I'm in for a long wait before something comes along that makes me want to upgrade my Z1E ROG Ally.
