Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY!

• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Cheaper

  Isn’t the Ally a lot more expensive than the Deck?

  easier to use

  I’d also question this, obviously everyone’s familiar with windows but the handheld experience is pretty rough when compared with SteamOS.

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  • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Walmart prices:

    512 GB Ally: $399

    512 GB Steam Deck: $499

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      To be fair, that’s the low power Ally with a pretty significant 20% off sale.

      I’m not well educated on the power difference, but a quick google search shows the cheaper Ally gets about 60% the benchmarked performance of the more expensive Ally when plugged in. There’s also a significant drop when not plugged in, but less severe (only about a 20% drop in fps). Source

      I suppose the real question is how does it compare to a Steam Deck at that price, and if the drop in power is worth the price difference.

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      • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        iirc they’re all similar amd chips but the steam deck has the lowest performance by a small margin. But the steam deck uses less overhead with Linux.

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  • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, those two are debatable at best, but the other points sure make a lot of sense, and definitely have value. I say this as a SteamDeck user who never even considered the Ally for myself.

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