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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video we check out and give our impressions on the ROG Ally. This amazing and powerful handheld is a great entry from Asus but despite the hype there are issues to be aware of.
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I've had my ROG since day one and I know the battery isn't perfect. But you can't compare a Switch to this cause it can play AAA games where the switch can't. People are complaining cause it has problems but unless you've used plenty of computer you won't understand. So people have to stop treating it like a game system and treat it like a Laptop that's smaller.
Sure, but if it is just a laptop with a controller glued on, then it isn’t a game console experience like the SD which makes it not a true competitor for anybody who just wants to casually play pc games. For perspective my 8 year old can use the steam deck pretty easily
@@joker6558 literally the ally has the same feel when you use the armory crate lol its not a console and niether is the deck they both are mini computers lmao you people are just computer illiterate
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That's why the ROG isn't for someone in elementary. They have to have knowledge of how to use computers. Before ROG came out they never said it was for kids. I've always liked laptops but they still weren't that portable. But when I saw the ROG it was the perfect size take everywhere. But I mostly have it connected so I never have battery problems and it runs everything from all my Retro games to Current. I was going to get the PS5 until I saw this and I still don't regret my choice.
@@jasonaragon2766 I buy a device like this to play games and just that. I had a windows handheld and the experience was garbage. I spent more time troubleshooting the thing (because of windows) than actually playing games, and, I could never expect it to work if I took it to play some games during any down time. The SD is like the switch with its pick up and play usability whereas the Ally is a shitty version of a laptop with all of the best inputs necessary to operate it are sawed off and replaced by an Xbox controller.
There is a high barrier to entry to these windows handhelds, and because of that it is always going to be a niche product in a niche market.
@joker6558 thats the point of windows on this it is not a casual gaming console for you people who are lazy. It is for us the pc people who have wanted a pc handheld
You're so right on the money time and time again, it's not even funny. Thanks, mate, appreciate your videos very much. 👍
Thank you mate, I am really pleased you appreciate them! I do love this little handheld but wanted to make sure people realise what they are signing up for 😀
Excellent real review and not full of fluff making it seem like its a console type machine. Keep up this good work
Thanks mate, will do! Enjoying the ally so much I have a few ideas for videos I want to make 😀
@@MashITTech im loving mine to. Went into it with the mindset that this is a laptop with no keyboard, but built in controller, and its a pioneer, really the first americanized company to do a windows handheld like this, so because of that microsoft couldnt work with all the chinese companies to improve the o.s., but now that this exists, it should only keep improving, just like the steam deck. Everyone keeps comparing it to the steam deck, in reality they are different devices, and 1 has had a year to mature where as the other is brand new. But i will keep an eye on your channel and see what other great content you can provide
Thank you for sharing your experience so far with the Ally. I’m looking forward for your future videos of the Ally showing in depth reviews, comparison to the Deck, benchmarks, and if you are experiencing issues such as SD card reader, bugs, etc.
I am actually afraid to put any of my decent sd cards in it after reading the Reddit horror stories. I will dig out some cards I don’t care about and start testing it out. Hoping to get more videos out soon, any excuse to keep playing with it but my laptops waiting for review are feeling neglected 😂
Been contemplating picking one of these up for the better Xbox Gamepass support compared to the xcloud workaround I got going on the steam deck but I’d miss my trackpads. Also I’m not sure I have the same faith in Asus as I do Valve when it comes to supporting the device longer term.
My Asus laptop got like 1 year of update so yeah, expect this one to get 1 year of updates or 1 year and a half. :/
@@Jaxv3rwell same case with their rog phone 😅😅
@@wstein111 bruh imagine spending that much money and you get like a year of update, especially for a phone, my Samsung S20fe still gets updates.
@@Jaxv3r yeah samsung promised 3 years mayor update on their flagship i think..
Rog phone got like 2 mayor update.. for around 1 year and half. The rest is one more year for security update and minor update.
But their armory crate software probably only got 1 year update.
The problem with the "freezing of games" and "jumping into windows" might be because you have shortcuts with the triggers on the back of the machine and the D-Pad. Maybe you pressed them both at the same time when fighting :)
I wish that was the case and also what I initially assumed! I made sure to unbind all commands to the back buttons. I have tried desperately to recreate it and can't no matter what combinations I press yet it often happens when I am hammering away (usually loosing 🤣) on street fighter. I haven't noticed it in any other game yet and if I can find out what causes it I will post back
@@MashITTech lol you and me both. this only happens to me too with fighting games especially with street fighter 6 and its intense fights using drive rush, drive parry, specials all cause me to exit the gaming window on to desktop by accident lol.
Glad it’s not just me! If I get to the bottom of it I will let you know 😀
Great review, thanks.
Suggestion: I've seen on the forums reports of the meta quest 2 running with this device without an xg mobile.
Can you try running the rift s, with the Ally, withot the XG Mobile? There are videos with the egpu, but nobody tried without it as fas as I can tell.
I played it at the store yesterday. For me that is just a casual gamer, I thought it was awesome
Good stuff! I will be patiently be waiting for the follow up videos. If you find any good tweaks for more performance. That would be awesome!
Currently hammering the device so hope to come back with some tweaks soon. I am just making myself a little desk setup with it too and want to see how far I can push it with more demanding desktop games, I sometimes wonder if I really need a high power desktop 🤣
you should get more views and likes, your content is really nice
I appreciate that, thank you :)
Had both the Steam Deck and the Ally on Day one of release and the Steam Deck was never this buggy when playing my game library. The hardware of the Ally is great, but I can't play a spec sheet. Returned my unit after it killed my microSD card.
oh no way, you had the SDcard bug! I am about to start testing that out, hoping the new BIOS has helped it
Great video as always :)
The biggest problem with Ally is sadly the Windows OS itself. The potential of handheld pc gaming is in the hardware specs but it bogged down by battery technology and software support.
Steam os is far worse than windows in terms of compatibility and features. Yep, it has flaws - but linux is far from being good too. The real biggest problem is that this device burning cd cards.
Great review as always. Just curious though brought myself a steam deck recently and you’ve made a lot of compelling points about the Ally Rog. Would you suggest someone to buy one as well? I’ve become interested in bug the Rog as well.
haha that is a tough one. The steam deck is an amazing handheld still and performs slightly better when at lower wattages, the Ally is a more versatile device with much more power when in turbo mode and this is particularly useful when docked and used as a desktop. If you have the spare cash the Ally is great fun but its hard to justify if you have a deck too
@@MashITTech Thank you so much for your honesty. I think I would use it as desktop as well. I do have a lot of systems and a bit of a gadget whore. Lol but I do like the performance of it and what it can bring to the table. So having both would be interesting but not sure if it’s worth buying or not.
The other big mistake is no hall sensor sticks, so when they inevitable drift, it's not going to be a simple fix. The device will have to be either professionally serviced or opened up by user if game. Aya nailed that, the sticks will last a lifetime.
In a year I might see if it's got the wrinkles out. But right now my deck does everything I want it to
I'm not that worrier about it. There are guides about installing those on YT already. Would have been nice to get hall sticks by default though.
@@Kasper0822 Some of us don't feel comfortable opening up our 1700 AUD console (that's how much it costs here).
Especially someone like me with 50yo arthritic hands that needs a turbo button to play any shooter game beyond 5 minutes these days.
To prevent freezing your game, you might want to force the controller to game mode instead of auto.
You legend, I didn’t think to check that. I played around with that mode too
Great video. The Ally seems great in a few month or so.
I feel the reason the ally disappoints people is because they go and buy it and then expect a console like experience, and when they get it they are bombarded with updates and the issues of windows and then they compare it to the switch and steam deck and think the ally sucks the ally is not a console it’s a pc with controllers if people go buy the ally with that in mind people will be a lot happier with it
Exactly the reason I wanted to make this video, all the prelaunch hype videos were all massively positive with no mention of the windows niggles! I love the device and expected most of these niggles but as you also said if people come from consoles it is a bit of a shock
Totally agree with you! It’s not a Switch, it’s a handheld gaming pc. My $3k Alienware X15 R1 laptop had issues with drivers, bugs, freezes, etc. all thanks to Windows. Does it make it a bad product? NO. This device unfortunately will not be exempt from having the typical Windows bugs too. Also it has to be treated like a gaming pc, meaning you have to play around with settings, updates, etc to get the best performance in gaming. Sadly most people don’t know that or don’t want to do it and start to hate the device for no reason. If it was an actual gaming laptop, nobody will say anything lol
Bang on ! People need to do their research before buying a product like this. Not every one is a pc gamer or knows much about pc and If that’s the case good luck 😉
Yes a pc that you can’t even add extra storage because it will burn, or a pc with controllers that even the controls don’t work properly, poor deadzone and low quality analog sticks. People are just in denial that they spent too much on a faulty device
@@dudeman6480 some people find the analog sticks to be great so that’s subjective you act like a micro SD card is the only form of storage it’s not…. You can replace the SSD some people don’t have any problems with the controls at all It’s not everyone that goes through these issues you’re just a hater the Ally just came out three weeks ago so all these issues can be fixed the steam deck was awful when it came out and look where it is now.
Just dual boot windows on SD, i have no issues with it. Every game i play on pc run fine no issues
Yeah I dual boot windows 10 instead of windows 11 as heard it's better for anti cheat games for deck and I have no problems with games I run the only game that causes me problem is fifa 23 when online it's can lag bad even when set Uma buffer to 4g it slows down then goes really fast it's not completely unplayable but can alter your game sometimes but all other modes work fine it's just when online it sometimes has issues every other game that I have played windows on deck have been fine when comparing games on steam os to windows on deck tend to get slightly higher fps when playing on steam os but not by much at all and being able to dual boot windows on deck like I do has held me off of purchasing the ally even though at times I have wanted to purchase it
Thinking of buying one. I've a first gen MS Surface Go and a seven-going-on eight-year-old desktop PC mostly for gaming but now giving problems despite the addition of an RTX 3060ti GPU and a new 750-watt psu. Can't decide between a new desktop or the Ally. There is a lot of negativity growing around the Ally at the moment but it is early days yet and using Windows is both good and bad, as you pointed out. The lack of a model with greater storage capacity is very annoying. I know TH-cam is full of videos about how 'easy' it is although many of them admit to problems downloading and installing the operating system again. But it seems incredible that you have to do that. A couple of triple-A games plus Windows and your're stuffed as it comes out of the box!
The only negative thing (other than windows bugs which you will already be used to having a desktop and surface) is the sd cards getting corrupted! Asus just released a bios today which I hope solves this issue but personally I don’t like using the sdcard for games as it’s much slower to load them so I am currently upgrading mine to 2tb (video coming soon) and this little device when docked is a pretty poky machine with its 8 core 16 thread cpu! I will be doing a video early next week about how it copes as a gaming desktop as I am making a little setup with it atm 👍
@@MashITTech Thank you. I envisage using it docked a lot of the time anyway so I will be interested to see it with a mouse and keyboard.
the z1 extreme is faster than my i5 6600k desktop from 2015 and i don't have to build anything now lol. i feel like it was a no brainer for me.
I know you're a small YT'ber. I hope you have the capital to get the Lenovo Legion Go, and Steam Deck OLED and do a proper comparison to all three handhelds (Ally, Go, SD OLED) for a good head to head MashIT style.
Legion GO video vs Ally and original Deck video is almost finished and we will also update when we get a OLED Deck :)
Shout out to Street Fighter 4! Any reason you didn't try SF6 or SFV though?
I haven’t bought them yet 😂 I have so many games in my library I am trying to get through I am on a buying ban atm
i think thats the main problem. alot of people go in wishing they had windows on the deck but once they see how windows really is when it comes to gaming. they blame the ally. when you are given free reign to access anything, you have to know not every company is under the same roof so you cant expect console experiences.
the exclusivity money companies get from consoles are the reason we have so many launchers now. they are too greedy to just all work together like before. like cod, blizzard, origin. they use to all be closer till console exclusives made them greedy.
The worst part for me after 2 weeks was the battery draining in less than an hour. But I’ve worked it out to be able to play warzone for almost 2 hours unplugged. It’s amazing!
What tweaks have you made? 2 hours of war zone is mental :)
@@MashITTech I had it on 15w and everything on low in the call of duty settings but left it at 60 hz and also limited fps it to 60 and have a 720 resolution but I had a controller connected through Bluetooth and a headset
Glad I brought one, however little confused though. The download speed on Xbox game pass is very slow. 5.6mb/sec. It’s going to a memory card though as there isn’t that much space on the main pc it self. Any advice on what’s going? Thanks for your feedback much appreciated.
It could well be your card as writing to the card can often be slow with some sdcards. Have you tried copying some files from the SSD to the Sdcard to see how fast it is? Also have you downloaded any games from steam/epic/origin? if so how fast are they?
Great honest video.
Thank you 👍
I’d also like to point out the whole put it to sleep and carry on works best with ARM based processors. Your x86 processor doesn’t do this very well especially when you throw in an OS like windows
Totally agree, I just can’t believe M$ haven’t sorted this issue that we have all suffered for years!
Dear David, thanks for the brilliant video on the topic - clear and concise, as always on this channel! By the way, could you please try to make a new video about 5K/4K gaming performance on a 2020 iMac (if you still have one) with different modern external eGPUs? Would really appreciate such content. Best regards and thanks for your content!👋
I still have the 2020 iMac and I do have an gpu and plenty of gfx cards so let me see what I can come up with
@@MashITTech Wow, that would be incredible if you manage to make such video! The main question most 2020 iMac users may ask nowadays is if it’s still reasonable to use some modern GPU (say, a 4080 vs 3080 comparison) in an eGPU setup to get significant FPS improvement in bootcamp 4k gaming on internal screen? None of the existing forums that I know have shed light on this topic. Thanks for your attention, David!
soo where is your legion pro 5i review you said that's arriving soon 2 months ago? Never knew soon meant 2 months and running
so sorry, it is in editing but we have been flooded with other products at the same time!
for the keyboard which didn't auto pop up, you can use the asus shortcut panel on left button
Oh thanks, I might have missed that
been waiting days for mine...should be here in a few hours,hope its good...but not looking forward to windows 11 and also have a steamdeck snd love it...
Well at least you have the steam deck to play whilst you wait for all the ally updates 😂 once it’s up and running though I think you will love it
Airjet (for those who don't know is a company that sells solid state cooling system) should place their product on these devices.
I remember seeing some of their prototypes, have they got any cooling systems live yet?
Doesn't the XG mobile port on the Ally have a USB-C part? I swear I've seen video reviews of other ROG laptops with that port that have connected devices to the USB-C part of that port, leaving a lot of empty space that would otherwise be taken by what I assume to be the PCI-E part of the connector.
yes it does, the XG port has the PCIE connector and a USBC connector which are both used by the XG mobile module. The Ally only gets this port so you use the USBC part of it to charge or add peripherals or the whole port when connecting the XG mobile. On the Z13 or X13 they get the XG mobile port and another USBC essentially giving you 2 USBC if you don't use the XG
When setting up and needing on screen keyboard, did you hold 1 of the back side buttons and hit up on the dpad? That should have brought it up
Thanks, I didn’t try that! That’s good to know for future
@@MashITTech yep, the back buttons are called macro buttons, if you hold the armory crate button, a shortcuts menu will pop up and show you what you can do with those back buttons. But hope your viewers see my comment about the back buttons and dpad for initial setup as its been a big issue people dont see. Also your user manual does show all the shortcuts you can do with the back macro buttons too
Haha I guess I should rtfm 😂 I might try and get a tips video together for new starters once I have worked them all out myself 😀👍
@@MashITTech thatd be a good idea!
Hey, i just want to know how much space does it actually have on it out of the box? Im assuming it only has around 480gb...
I think it was a little less. I am out at the moment but I will check when I get back
hello brother.did you recommended buy asus rog ally extream? i don't have desktop pc gaming,really expensive to buy it.i watch play test all games,really smooth.please help me ,i don't know what can i do,buying laptop gaming 2023,or asus rog ally extream.
Do you have any ideas of the type you want to start playing? Are they the type of
Game which would work better handheld or bigger screen?
@@MashITTech example.doom ethernal really great working without any issue or laggy and stutters.forza5 really smooth,starwars jedi too..another aaa games really smooth some youtuber test it they say it.amazing.and i m living iran,at the moment ,available pre purchase some website legit from my country i see it.yea i don't see any issue of this console from youtubers.
When will the Razer blade review drop?
Probably early next week, we start filming that one on Friday
I really wish asus would just come up with xg mobile ssd or usb hub for example some of us don't need a full blown desktop option
I bet we see loads of extras for it soon as Asus will have realised how much they can make creating a market of mods for the ally!
I’m not much into gaming but these portable devices are very interesting.
They're perfect for someone like you then. The options to different generations of games is crazy!
I bought mine on release day it’s really good the battery is just terrible and it does have occasional frame drops on pretty low demanding games as in fallout new Vegas and gets pretty hot pretty quick like 75-90 degrees Celsius hot, if anyone knows a fix for that I’d greatly appreciate it overall though 8/10
is that stand just plastic?
It’s worse than that, it’s glossy card! Asus really spared no expense 😂
We still can't even GET the Steam Deck in Australia. Steam OS is all I would ever need cause all I'd want the handheld for is gaming.
That said, it really needs to be updated with 8 cores so we can use all the heavy games in RCPS3 handheld mode.
I hope if they do this that they include Australians next time. It was pretty offensive.
The Ally is definitely a contender for me. I want a handheld for two things really, streaming my consoles or streaming Xbox cloud, and emulation. Ally could really emulate any system and the freesync screen makes it a unique option that isn't talked about enough. Basically, by having an adaptive sync screen, you can play all the retro consoles and arcade games 100% accurately because a lot of them were not precisely 60hz, heck old arcade games went into the 30's in some cases! Animations are missing, weird flashes etc when playing them on a modern non adaptive sync screen. That's why I have never found all those android and other windows handhelds especially useful for emulation of the 16 bit era and under, and particularly arcade games. Even the NES was 60.1hz and the only way to enjoy 100% perfect visual emulation is to have a screen that can do 60.1 hz. But things like Neo Geo which were ~59hz just shine with adaptive sync. Asus really did something unique there and they didn't do the stupid 1600P on a tiny handheld screen thing that the others are doing. I mean what's the point? The GPU will never drive games at those resolutions anyway so running 720P or 1080P on a native 1080P screen will always look better than a massive down sample from 1600P. Also I am HAPPY this is 16:9 cause we don't need 16:10 in a handheld.
Couldn't you connect a usb keyboard for setup if the device was 100% charged therefore leaving the usb port free?
Speaking of, that is the BIGGEST miss for me in this handheld and follows Asus' laptop ethos where they provide the very minimum USB ports possible. This has ONE Usb C port, total. That's ridiculous. So if you are playing it plugged into the wall, NO Usb ports since charger is using it. The only way is to get the ludicrously priced external GPU for it which has a USB hub.
This is pretty much a deal breaker, I needed at least 1 free USB port. So that's why I WON'T buy one. I can't be without any ports and I don't understand in this day and age how Asus thinks people don't need USB ports. Deal killer.
What I am waiting for is another brand to add an adaptive sync screen, like Aya, and if they do, I'll finally get a handheld. Until then, ROG got it close, but no cigar. Lack of ports makes it a nightmare to actually use, unless on battery power.
My 2c.
you totally could add a keyboard and I could have even used a USB dock with PD but I stupidly in my excitement of receiving it took it home and set it up in my kitchen (all my cables and spare keyboards are in the studio, I really should leave a few spare bits at home!) but also, I am an experienced user, imagine the person that buys this coming from consoles or switch, they would have a nightmare. Lastly sorry to hear you never got the Deck in Australia! I didn't realise that and know how it feels as we often completely over looked for products in the UK too! (Still no Alienware x14 r2 here so I cannot do a review)
Valve lost and payed 3M to australian government lawsuit. Might be the reason they dont wana make business around aus
Wow I didn’t hear about that
7:42- just open hibernate mode from power settings
Agreed this is a solution but why can’t M$ get modern standby working? It’s been years of it constantly causing issues!
Is the cpu better on the razer blade 14 or 15 (2023) for both
They are very close, the Ryzen seems to be scoring higher in timespy and is more efficient but the 15’s intel will probably be slightly faster in heavily multithreaded tasks as it also has some e cores
this device definitely needed a kickstand, why they didn't add it is beyond me.
Yeah that would have been amazing!
To me it looks too flashy and garish, and tries too hard to look like a 'gamer' device (e.g. the RGB around the joysticks). I like the Steam Deck's design because it's clean, understated and absolutely not flashy.
haha I can see that, and agree it is very 'gamer' guess I have never grown up and still love RGB 🤣
I totally agree with you. The steam deck looks like a device for regular consumers while also being unique in its design. I don’t mind taking the SD out in public because of its understated look.
To me, the SD is like the iPhone of these handheld devices while every other windows handheld is like android, but worse, because of windows.
You guys care too much about other people’s opinions
back buttons should be removable
Yeah, that would have been brilliant
5:11
"cool to the touch"
hard disagree there. this thing, along with the steam deck get VERY hot. i actually think the ROG ally gets hotter than the steam deck.
the nintendo OLED switch is something i would consider "cool to the touch".
I guess I mostly play in silent or balanced and mine remains cool! I will test it more in turbo and see how that is. Also there is a new bios today which adjusts the fan curve I will see how that affects it too
The problem with the rog ally is that it was designed as a portable pc that can "act" like a console. You console guys are whipped. The rest of us that have been used to running windows since 95 on up work this thing like magic. It isn't for the faint of heart.
Not the SD that is designed as a portable console. I was excited for the SD when it came out because steam said you could use it as a pc but they were wrong. Its more console.
Asus did what others (china) have been trying to do. They made a smaller pc that we can game on without the big bags. If you cannot or refuse to provlem solve then you will whine about this.
Your first issue…. Calling it a hand held console. It’s not a console it’s a pc and most of the frustration and issues I’m seeing is user error. People buying this expecting to just turn it on and go like you would a home console are in for a shock lol
You are right it’s a full powered pc, but they packed it into a handheld device so it will naturally appeal to console players (which is a good thing, the more console gamers that get converted to pc gaming benefits us all). I expected these issues going in but watching all the hype videos, every one was selling it as the most exciting device since the creation of AI 😂
My Ally has had no issues. Setup took a few mins and never had a game crash. I absolutely love it and prefer it over my RTX 3070 gaming laptop. It's so easy to just pick it up and game. Battery life sucks when playing demanding games, but that should be expected if you buy a powerful portable device.
wow I wish my setup had gone as smoothly but like you I love the device and am finding excuses to use it over all the gaming laptops I should be testing 🤣 its such an amazing little device
Right no issues.
@@MashITTech Lol I guess I just got lucky then 😂 still not gonna use an sd card though until there's an announcement or fix. Have you heard anything about that?
@@guess199 Yep, no issues 🤯 Chill
The ugly part is price, PS5 is way cheaper 😕
The steam deck and its overenthusiastic fanbase is what has completely put me off the steam deck and getting something that is very much not the steam deck when valve said thereself deck is cheaper because gaming platform is so popular they will profit that way fan boys need to wake up these other devices are obviously going to be more expensive madness all 💚💚 though rog ally for me all day 💯
Steam Deck is still the way to go honestly.
I would say steam deck is the easier option for most but I am preferring the ally for the flexibility, 120hz 1080p screen and extra power
@@MashITTech true, those features are fantastic. I would assume most people that watch Ally videos have the patience for a windows device or enjoy tinkering. I need a plug and play experience personally.
Yeah, steam deck is definitely better for that, I also do prefer the d pad and touchpads on the deck so will be keeping mine for sure but as you can guess I am a tinkerer at heart 😀
I’ll steer clear of Ally, all good in theory, clearly in practice I’m dubious as to what purpose it serves? Without a long battery standby time it’s not really a portable item. Switch is good enough, less hassle. For games I’ll stick with Xbox series X.
I got series x too but got a kid and don't really want to sit at the desk for hours. I still sit my family snd still able to play
You put your steam deck in the trash? Wtf
Haha it was a joke, the steam deck was not harmed in the making of this video 😀
0:06 Thats not true
Thank you mate but I wish asus agreed 😂
@@MashITTech they should
yes
Asus has had MAJOR issues and I would never own one. Windows problems, storage problems, and many others that haven’t been recognized. 👎
Whilst I agree there has been some problems, only the sd card issue concerns me. The windows issues are a pain but not a show stopper and we have m$ to blame for that. Asus released a new bios today which they hope will solve sd card issues so I will start testing that tomorrow. What other issue have you heard of? And don’t forget the steam deck also had quite a rocky launch, that took a few months before a lot of games were working, it’s the joys of being an early adopter!
To me the steam deck was a waste of money. Who would use it instead of a laptop? Game library is limited to steam and even more limited to what valve decides to approve.
I said the same thing when it launched, as I've got a desktop and laptop. Seemed worthless to me. Then I caved and got one, a year into its life. Then it hit me, it's great for recliner play on a back log of easier to run games, last gen or indies etc. I've not had any issues running games, it's more open than you'd think.
I also thought it would be a gimmick but ended up using it much more than I expected and it got me playing games I never bother playing on my pc (fighting and racing games). This ally takes that fun and also gives us windows which I had really wanted so I ordered this one on launch and despite the niggles I love it! I can’t believe the power they packed into it
I was afraid of this at the start, especially when my steam deck pre order got delayed (well, everyone's did at the time) I was even more worried it wasn't gonna work or it has problems.... but now a year later it's the best device I've ever used, I've played and completed so many triple a games on this it absolutely blew my mind. Learning Linux (coming from windows) was hard at first, but now that I've been using it, I prefer steam os over windows, I would put it on my main pc if it wasn't for compatability with certain anticheat... otherwise this is the best gaming purchase ive ever made.
@@michaelbrindley4363 you can actually put the steam deck in sleep mode and come back to a video game 5 days later and be in the same place with no issues.
i really doubt you you can do that on the ROG ally or any of your windows laptops. in my personal experience with the ally, good luck not having to power cycle it at least once a day lol.
yep, you can't. this is one area the deck massively beats the ally
Dang Steam Deck in the trash 😫. 🤣🤳
Haha trust me it’s not really being thrown away, I still love it
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cheap aesthestics ..junk
😂 you didn't like the look of it then 🤣