The ROG Ally Z1 Is A Waste

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Timestamps!
0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Spec Comparison w/ Z1X
2:25 - Sponsor
4:30 - Benchmarks & Performance
7:23 - Battery Life
7:50 - Z1 vs Steam Deck
8:20 - Terrible Value of the Z1
10:07 - Conclusion

Presenter: Brett Sticklemonster
Writer: Desmond Brown
Videographer: Brett Sticklemonster
Editor: Brett Sticklemonster
Thumbnail Designer: Michael Pellow

[UFDTech]

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[MaliceSpeedwagon]

The Z1 is a waste, But you think the PlayStation Portal is Amazing is wild.

[rla]

For $400 Z1 Rog Ally is actually pretty good. They just need to make that the permanent price to justify it.

[derickmiller]

I have the original and it does everything I need it to do. if youre just trying to play pc games on a beautiful 7 inch handheld screen go with the orginal. These people who says its a waste is expecting a full gaming pc in a handheld. it isnt that big of a difference. I am averaging 100 fps playing mw3 with no lag. if youre going to spend 700 dollars on a handheld, you might as well just get a pc. I bought mine for 400 dollars and i play it more than my xbox series x. and its a beast for emulation too.

[JustinPennito]

At $400, the regular Z1 Ally is a huge win actually.

[DDL-nu]

Grabbed an open box Z1 for half the price of the Extreme. I have a desktop rig for performance this is a portable and I’m fine with the performance 🤷🏻‍♂️

[RollenxX]

I bought the basic z1 for 399 dlls and it is incredible, I am very satisfied with what I paid for it, I liked it more than the steam deck

[praisetyler]

It depends if you need windows or not but I picked up a Z1 model the day after Christmas from Best Buy for $399 brand new and it’s the best purchase of 2023 for me. I was able to play around 40 hours on it with Persona 5 Royal; Monster Hunter rise runs like a dream and other than that I’ll play an indie game or 3DS/Wii U games. If I want to play something super graphically demanding like starfield I’ll just play on my Xbox series X or my desktop. I was also able to run Lies of P pretty well on it so majority of games I’ve thrown at it perform great so if you can find this for $399 or less I would recommend it

[MugShotVlogs]

IDK I have the Z1 non extreme and I'm having more trouble finding things I cant play. Works for me, so no complaints.

[minic]

Got the z1 and been playing whatever I want including COD and everything else 😅 new to pc gaming and the last 2 months been a blast

[jose-iylk]

So the Z1 at $399 is a waste but the steam deck oled at $549 with 64gb is not? That’s wild you are just hating.

[merouby]

So I bought the Z1 non-extreme for $340 (open box - Best Buy) and spent another $330 to upgrade it to 32GB RAM - and finally I spent $800 on a used XG Mobile eGPU
It destroys the Steam Deck and now with AMD Fluid Frames, I get near X1 Extreme numbers when portable, and a 10, 000 time spy score when docked
There's nothing I can't run :)

[magikarp]

I don't know why you expected anything different, it has only 4 CUs.
The steam deck has 8 CUs so it can be clocked lower, that's why it can beat even the newer chip at efficiency.
The more CU's you have the more efficient the chip will generally be.
If you have a low number of CUs you have cranck the frequency to get the same performance.

[SteveT-]

I'm running my Z1 Extreme Ally in linux, I got rid of windows and installed Nobara linux and SteamOS. got a nice performance gain and it's averaging 20-30fps over my Steam Deck.

[corinbalomiri]

This guy talks like the Z1 is something you can find on AliExpress and it's total garbage. In Norway now there is a difference of 238 dollars between them and I decided that the simple version with Z1 is enough for me when I go in vacations. At home I have a decent desktop with rtx 3060 ti and I am convinced that most of us have an alternative to this console.

[BilalMirza]

I bought the z1 for 350 I don't care as long as it performs similarly to a steam deck. Which it does. I do have a better pc but that is when i want visual fidelity.
And 20 to 30 mins is quite ok in my opinion.

[mexicanoaao]

Picked it up for 319.99. Perfect price for what I’m using it for, older/lighter titles, and windows capability so that way if I’m out on a work trip and I need to work on a paper (working on a degree), I can take this with me alongside my work computer to work on stuff or game after hours

[sky_king]

Me and my wife just bought the Z1 for 320 dollars open box, it was a pain to set up since I think best buy reinstalled windows on it without any of the rog features, so I had to reset via the bios, but other than that we have been loving it for the price so far!

[darksinthe]

i have a 4090 and 7800x3d gaming PC that i will use for all my high end games- i only want to run emulators and basic games like slay the spire and such, so i bought a Z1 for that. its fine.

[joryugagotoku]

you can get the z1 at best buy for 400$. Absolutely a great deal