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Asus Rog Ally
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PatchTuesday
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Doing the Macrium clone. I do have to leave the house soon so will let this complete and tackle the SSD swap later this evening or tomorrow
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I had to remove the rubber stoppers from the jsaux dock for the Ally to fit in there with this clear plastic case on though
FiestaST
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GSMArena just dropped it’s review:
Asus ROG Ally review
Conclusion
The ROG Ally is a very competent device when it is at its best. Dive into a game, and you will appreciate how good the performance is from the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, how good the 120Hz VRR display looks, how well the controls work, and how quiet the cooling is. Once in its zone, the Ally is unbeatable and far exceeds what you will find on other devices.
What lets the device down are the software and the battery life. Windows 11 on a 7-inch touchscreen is clumsy and frustrating, meaning any time spent interacting with the Ally outside of playing games is unpleasant. Making matters worse is the battery life, which puts very real limits on where and when you can use the device and how much value you can get out of carrying it around or spending $700 on it.
The Ally is certainly a niche product, even within the already niche handheld console market. If you are already a PC gamer who can no longer spend enough time in front of your PC but need a way to continue playing your games whenever and wherever, then this device will certainly scratch your very specific itch. But it will need better software and longer battery life to have a broader appeal.
www.gsmarena.com
Asus ROG Ally review
Conclusion
The ROG Ally is a very competent device when it is at its best. Dive into a game, and you will appreciate how good the performance is from the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, how good the 120Hz VRR display looks, how well the controls work, and how quiet the cooling is. Once in its zone, the Ally is unbeatable and far exceeds what you will find on other devices.
What lets the device down are the software and the battery life. Windows 11 on a 7-inch touchscreen is clumsy and frustrating, meaning any time spent interacting with the Ally outside of playing games is unpleasant. Making matters worse is the battery life, which puts very real limits on where and when you can use the device and how much value you can get out of carrying it around or spending $700 on it.
The Ally is certainly a niche product, even within the already niche handheld console market. If you are already a PC gamer who can no longer spend enough time in front of your PC but need a way to continue playing your games whenever and wherever, then this device will certainly scratch your very specific itch. But it will need better software and longer battery life to have a broader appeal.
Asus ROG Ally review
This review has been a long time coming, but with Asus making constant improvements to the performance and user experience, it made sense to hold off for a while.
PatchTuesday
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Finally got a chance to do this restore. Will start it, set macrium to shutdown and go sleep now. Good night all
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Macrium successfully restored it overnight. I wasn't paying attention to the options though so I didn't float the recovery partitions to the right, which means the free space has two partitions between C and Free. I'll fix that this morning though
Edit: in the second pic with the new drive in, it wasn't actually inserted properly so it didn't show up in bios. I had to open it up again and apply a bit more force to get it in there
Edit 2: deleted those partitions in macrium, restored them again by floating both to the right. Was able to expand free space in windows
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GSMArena just dropped it’s review:
Asus ROG Ally review
Conclusion
The ROG Ally is a very competent device when it is at its best. Dive into a game, and you will appreciate how good the performance is from the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, how good the 120Hz VRR display looks, how well the controls work, and how quiet the cooling is. Once in its zone, the Ally is unbeatable and far exceeds what you will find on other devices.
What lets the device down are the software and the battery life. Windows 11 on a 7-inch touchscreen is clumsy and frustrating, meaning any time spent interacting with the Ally outside of playing games is unpleasant. Making matters worse is the battery life, which puts very real limits on where and when you can use the device and how much value you can get out of carrying it around or spending $700 on it.
The Ally is certainly a niche product, even within the already niche handheld console market. If you are already a PC gamer who can no longer spend enough time in front of your PC but need a way to continue playing your games whenever and wherever, then this device will certainly scratch your very specific itch. But it will need better software and longer battery life to have a broader appeal.
Asus ROG Ally review
This review has been a long time coming, but with Asus making constant improvements to the performance and user experience, it made sense to hold off for a while.
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3 year warranty if you buy from Asus directly. That's a good point. How much warranty do Nintendo or Sony give you?
Also for the battery, an external battery will do wonders.
But above all this is a good loadshedding device. To be able to game on gaming laptop you'll need at least a 1Kilowatt hour solution which will cost you >R20K or so. With this you can get a cheapie 260Wh PPS which can cost R6K and have non-stop gaming for 4+ hours.
One Day has a 65W USB-C PD powerbank which should work with the ROG.
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Nope it isn't, it's easier buying a usb type c dock to use a normal keyboard and mouse..
Jar-man
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I bought this for portable and size. I wouldn't suggest this for everyday use, it's awkz
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For on the go I suppose, but definitely not a permenant solutionI bought this for portable and size. I wouldn't suggest this for everyday use, it's awkz
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Something like this?
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Had this. Great keyboard but being a blue switch makes it loud like a typewriter.Something like this?
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Some AC updates
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Changelog [August 8, 2023]: ROG Ally
We have released a new update to the microcontroller unit and a new update for Armoury Crate SE on the ROG Ally. This update contains “Hold to Repeat” functionality for controller buttons, new levels of VRAM adjustment, and more. In addition, with these updates we have also decreased the dead...
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Like the fact that we can now select 6GB of vram. Though the 16GB is starting to be the only real thing holding this back and it's not easily swappable.Some AC updates
Changelog [August 8, 2023]: ROG Ally
We have released a new update to the microcontroller unit and a new update for Armoury Crate SE on the ROG Ally. This update contains “Hold to Repeat” functionality for controller buttons, new levels of VRAM adjustment, and more. In addition, with these updates we have also decreased the dead...
Next year or 2025 there will be an updated model with 32GB and Zen 5 RDNA 4 architecture. Maybe 20% performance improvement.
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I'm guessing 2025 would be more then likely. I would probably get that one and hand this one down