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Maybe giant gaming handhelds are where it’s at
It’s ridiculous, but I love it.
This is a pre-production version of Asus’s upcoming ROG Flow Z13 tablet combined with a GameSir G8 Plus clamp-on mobile controller; the Z13’s AMD Strix Halo processor makes it probably the most powerful handheld gaming device you can play. This is obviously not a review — since the Flow Z13 is a pre-production unit — but the AMD Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 “Strix Halo” chip, with its 40 freaking graphics cores, ran circles around today’s gaming handhelds. For the first time in the PC handheld space I didn’t instantly lament, “Boy does this thing need SteamOS or Bazzite.” I still might prefer those, but in this format I can live with Windows, especially since a tablet that also serves as a laptop and ahandheld is an intriguing triple-threat.
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