1y ago

ASUS reveal the ROG Ally X with more RAM, more storage, larger battery

www.gamingonlinux.com

As an aside, they also recently announced that their handhelds will now have a 2 year warranty because there was a big controversy in how they handled repairs.

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Oh a 2-year warranty? Not sure how useful that warranty will be if they continue to deny every warranty claim.
- Yeah, the length of the warranty is not the issue.
- and add bullshit to repair jobs that nobody asked for
  
  What? Clearly a tiny ding is enough to ruin your experience.
  
  Oh, you don't want to pay for the nonsense we made up? Guess we'll just ship it back to you in pieces, good luck with that.
Even besides the corporate issues, I just can't help but not like this handheld.
It looks like a cheaply built gamer device, and it feels like a cheaply built gamer device in the hand too. Between them and MSI, it's almost as if they've put literally no effort into engineering anything, and just threw together a whatever they could, on the basis of a generic shell.
Not to mention that having ArmoryCrate is literally a downside in every way, and having 2 years of warranty NOW, after they showed up on FTCs radar, is laughable
- Yeah, there is a reason everyone talks about the Steam Deck, it's an actually good device that Valve put a bunch of effort into making soild. There is also the problem that many of these other handhelds, like this ASUS one, are running an OS full of background processes constantly sapping your battery. Again, Valve put a bunch of effort into making the Steam Deck good and it shows.
- Because it IS a cheaply built gamer device in a generic OEM shell. Pretty sure Microsoft has gotten enough flak for handheld Windows that they're starting to build gamescope type optimizations like directSR. It's not enough for me to switch back but maybe it is for others, who knows, hopefully Microsoft can stop riding the AI hype train to eventually build something to make armorycrate obsolete.
Gamers Nexus video documenting ASUS ROG Ally warranty service:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY
Spoiler: It's beyond bad.
Friends don't let friends buy ASUS unless the purchasing friend enjoys months of customer support or RMA nightmare.
Still windows
No touchpad? They still haven't learned anything.

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