ASUS ROG ALLY X 1 Month Later...

We lied, it's closer to 2 months now! We got our hands on a preview unit back in June for several weeks, which lead Andy to pre-order one immediately. Since Andy pre-ordered his, AJ's been using the retail sample unit from ASUS. What's our thoughts after 2 months? Is it everything we thought it would be, is the hype real? Or does it fall short?

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[julianflores]

I have a Series X and PS5 and haven't turned my TV on since I got the ROG Ally X. This device is such a powerhouse. After dual booting Windows with Bazzite this has been a true console experience. I am obsessed

[spectry]

Sold the Ally and bought the X. I never realized how traumatized/ paranoid I had become with the original. I was constantly looking at my battery and making sure I can save my game just in case 😂😂😂.

[adolfbilic]

This device is literally incredible . Something this powerful you can carry anywhere - like in a dream .

[Robwabo]

take a shot everytime they say "yeah"

[jj]

As a lifelong PC and tech tweaker there’s nothing better than having a full windows machine in something like this. Can run even non gaming tasks with ease

[TheOmar]

I am an Xbox gamer and I got the Ally X to play Sony exclusives. God of War, Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn all play amazing on this device. It blows my mind how good this thing is.

[gainsgamingginger]

I switched from the SteamDeck and I've been on this one for one week. My lady and I were playing BG3 the other day, and I can honestly say the differences of playability were insane. I can successfully play act 3 with little to no frame drops

[destruxandexploze]

On my old one, I had to do turbo constantly to play games as 15w wasn’t enough.

17w which is the new performance mode on the Ally X is great and I use it for all my games. This has also increased my battery life.

My anxiety of the Ally dying while playing games has gone away completely. I haven’t even gotten a low battery warning once. Awesome.

[wesbyEric]

I got an ALLy X and the worst part for me was that I wanted to upgrade the SSD and you need to have the battery under 25% to replace it so i had to leave it running until it finally got there... That battery really does make a big difference!!! i love this thing

[Trippydrip]

Damn I’m looking at my legion go with a side eye now

[meh]

Screen is so small, that's the issue I have with mine, its a real regression from the Legion Go

[BETEP-gwqp]

I might be the only weirdo in the world that actually enjoys setting up windows, getting updates, removing pre-installed junk, changing essential settings and so on... but I can totally see how it can be a turn-off for most people. In fact, not just the initial Windows set up that takes 2–3 hours, I'd say it takes 2–3 days to fully dial everything in.

[eyemsoreel]

The VRR is insane, was getting 70Fps on BOIII zombies handheld mode and felt like 100 on a regular screen

[jj]

The Ally screen is interesting it’s not OLED but the blacks still look black. It’s barely noticeable it’s not OLED. When I had the OG deck there was light coming all out the edges

[ellmango]

I justified the price on the basis that- this is my PC, not a handheld I have in addition to my PC. I genuinely sold my 4090 rig to use this and haven't looked back.

[michaelfisher]

Just been playing assassin creed Valhalla! It really is insane how well it plays

[gmmgrey]

Rhe Ally X brought back my lost childhood feeling of having a Gameboy Advance/DS

[meh]

The Battery is nice but the extra ram is the biggest improvement as no more hitching and games bugging out due to low system ram, that said if I could have gotten a 24GB Legion go I would have got that without even considering this. I'll take a bigger 16:10 higher refresh rate better looking screen screen that has 1:1 1280x800 over VRR plus touch pad on the LLG and SD are so very needed as the mouse by analogue is crap (I just got a dock and use keyboard and mouse with a monitor as the screen is not the best for windows text). But I have both now so Ally X for games that are a pain with 16GB of shared RAM and LLG for everything else.

[timaaaahhhh]

My 800 dollar device has a squeaky dpad and right trigger. So that's really cool. No amount of bearing grease has improved the trigger, and I really don't want to go digging around to figure out how to grease the dpad, which probably won't work either. Great build quality assus.

[Rspsand]

It's over 300% more expensive than a SD here, before taxes.

The battery life is so tempting, but gonna wait for gen 2 handhelds. Just way too much money. And 3 SDs would actually have more battery between them.