Yes Linus but the rog is $700, verus steam deck you can buy even cheaper, second hand.

Also I have not really come across many games I cannot play on the game. And my last point super graphics on a 7" screen, while noticeable and nice to have is not a deal breaker.

I will stick with my steam deck. Decks buttons layout is better as while and I would never pay $700 for a device anf my buttons get stuck. Wtf😂

This whole talk in the comments about the battery life is so pretentious imo, I personally bought the Steam deck for potential performance and graphics. So most of the time I play for an average of 1.5 hours. The Ally seems to give even more performance and graphical power at the same battery life and for nearly the same price I paid for my Steam deck. The software for the Steam deck was something I wasn’t a big fan of at first but it grew on me. The same will go for the ROG ally, except this device is coming from a giant company that has been handling gaming laptops for a long time. Everyone is always about recency bias, the company is messing up as of right now that is true, but Valve also has a messy track record with support but the Steam Deck proved us wrong.
I’m sure Asus will try to prove everyone wrong, they haven’t always been unreliable. This is their first handheld and I’m sure they’re going to take it seriously.
Just have some faith people, it hasn’t even come out yet.

these handhelds are slowly getting better than my desktop this is embarrassing

With all respect, what are you people playing today, and will play it on this? Just give me a list of games, please.

Buttons are sticking at day one? Are all their customers supposed to DOA/RMA their product instantly? Why isn't this video about staying away until they've fixed the issue. They know about it but don't fix it, even though it's type main functionality? That's insane and the e-waste they are generating from this… Anw, the Steam Deck is still not available in Norway.

at least jayz has told ASUS to go away because they are bad company led by greed

10:18 – This probably only applies to people with ADHD. It doesn't bother me at all. It shouldn't be considered as a downside because they can't accommodate for every mental disorder (yes, ADHD is classified as a mental disorder).

You must be the only youtuber who measures minimum brightness of these handhelds. Good job

finally as a gamer and programmer i can buy a mac and still play games
my w*test dream

Asus cannot sell this system on a loss, since they just can’t partner with stuff like gamepass, nor do they have anything else.
They have to sell this on a gain.

So you can install cracked games ?

But does it play Crisis? Jk 😜
Is there on the go online? Like can you get a data plan for this thing?

Considering the Ally Z1 has double the cores and boost clock to the steam deck…. Reducing that to 10 watts will hit the thing hard, same with how the GPU is apparently the new Radeon 780M, which is better than the 680M.
On paper the specs are good, but the whole device? The little things just build up lots, since the specs are just fine (besides the 120Hz display being overkill) this would be a good device…. But the flexibility is to be desired.
Literally some other low end handheld windows consoles (like the AYN Loki mini pro or whatever) has USB4 or Thunderbolt, meaning they can do eGPU stuff, even with the RTX4090 which would be bottlenecked a bit by that 4 PCIE lanes. But Asus? You have to use some crappy proprietary connector, that will probably be useless after one generation, even if the thing they made has a 4090 mobile (it’s also over $2000)
Really stupid, that I’d rather buy one of those AYN handhelds, even if the best one with the 12 core cpu takes lots of power.
Also the Ally being smaller is nice, but I would’ve rather had them make the thing bigger for a 50 or 60 watt hour battery instead.

Software man , asus and windows need to do better in their software

windows is just bad for gaming compared to linux
windows is bad for everything compared to linux

gotta love what the good old competion does

I like the asymmetrical controller layout of asus ally. Can you use both triggers "R1_R2" without losing grip of the device?

So, Asus completely spits on AMD customers and what is the YT'er that sticks with Asus sponsorship over the consumers? Good ole LTT! Money is always Linus' top priority even choosing to promote this the same time all the Asus/AMD problems break for Asus being completely anti-consumer! This is why I don't trust Linus reviews like I do other tech Youtubers! Also; I'm looking forward to my comment getting deleted in a short time (because all the shown comments are pro-LTT and pro-Asus (which right at this moment is sketchy). Linus must have mods scrubbing the comments critical of his loyalty to Asus (and their money) when Asus is doing anti-consumer garbage to consumers right now.

I forgot about the hall effect Steam Deck upgrade…. Guess I know what I'm doing between breakfast and lunch on Monday.

Linus the Ally looks awesome. I been waiting for someone to build a Windows based handheld. Just hope Asus fixes its reputation and builds solid products with little to no issues and anything that has an issue, they stand 100% behind. Also you could use Launch Box as a front end. It now has an option to even boot directly into the launcher from load up and may make the Ally that much more appealing against the Steam deck.