ASUS reveal the ROG Ally X with more RAM, more storage, larger battery

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simple@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/asus-reveal-the-rog-ally-x-with-more-ram-more-storage-larger-battery/

As an aside, they also recently announced that their handhelds will now have a 2 year warranty because there was a big controversy in how they handled repairs.

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newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Oh a 2-year warranty? Not sure how useful that warranty will be if they continue to deny every warranty claim.

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- Davel23@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, the length of the warranty is not the issue.
  
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- bappity@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  and add bullshit to repair jobs that nobody asked for
  
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  - Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What? Clearly a tiny ding is enough for a is enough to ruin your experience.
    
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  - edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, you don’t want to pay for the nonsense we made up? Guess we’ll just ship it back to you in pieces, good luck with that.
    
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dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Even besides the corporate issues, I just can’t help but not like this handheld.

It looks like a cheaply built gamer device, and it feels like a cheaply built gamer device in the hand too. Between them and MSI, it’s almost as if they’ve put literally no effort into engineering anything, and just threw together a whatever they could, on the basis of a generic shell.

Not to mention that having ArmoryCrate is literally a downside in every way, and having 2 years of warranty NOW, after they showed up on FTCs radar, is laughable

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- BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, there is a reason everyone talks about the Steam Deck, it’s an actually good device that Valve put a bunch of effort into making soild. There is also the problem that many of these other handhelds, like the ASUS one, are running an OS full of background processes constantly sapping your battery. Again, Valve put a bunch of effort into making the Steam Deck good and it shows.
  
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- Defaced@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Because it IS a cheaply built gamer device in a generic OEM shell. Pretty sure Microsoft has gotten enough flak for handheld Windows that they’re starting to build gamescope type optimizations like directSR. It’s not enough for me to switch back but maybe it is for others, who knows, hopefully Microsoft can stop riding the AI hype train to eventually build something to make armorycrate obsolete.
  
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mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Gamers Nexus video documenting ASUS ROG Ally warranty service:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY

Spoiler: It’s beyond bad.

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habanhero@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Friends don’t let friends buy ASUS unless the purchasing friend enjoys months of customer support or RMA nightmare.

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piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Still windows

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YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No touchpad? They still haven’t learned anything.

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