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Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

The sad thing is that a few dozen people will buy it no matter the price, and will have a thousand dollar piece of e-waste when Microsoft decides to kill it off

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A few dozen people don’t make a product viable, tens or hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people do.

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LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s just a computer. Microsoft can’t kill it off (thankfully)

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That all depends on exactly how the OS is implemented.
  
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- scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s locked into the Xbox ecosystem. Even if it can be changed, which I assume they’re going to work really hard to not allow with steamos being so easy, most would simply give up before trying something else
  
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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s not locked to the Xbox ecosystem; it’s a Windows PC with a better UI for a controller to navigate. And I really don’t see this being any more locked down than Asus’ previous Ally stuff.
    
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    Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    How do you know that?
    
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  - Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s just a windows PC in handheld format that has a new Xbox app that turns off a bunch of windows functions that use up perform despite having no benefit for gaming. But it is a windows pc, you can hook it up with a dock, and use it as your daily PC.
    
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