News Hands-on with the overhauled and improved ROG Ally X: More and faster RAM 1TB SSD, 80Wh battery

[Admin]

Asus' ROG Ally X is improved and overhauled in almost every way except its core silicon. It also gets a price bump to $799.

Hands-on with the overhauled and improved ROG Ally X: More and faster RAM 1TB SSD, 80Wh battery : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

as a device? its nice.

however I would still never recommend one to anyone given ASUS's business model.

ignoring the RMA drama recently the original Ally was flawed in design and problematic & they refuse to take the blame & ratehr than fix the issue to those who ordered their product they make a new version that doesnt have that issue & charge full price.

Their business model is too awful to recommend any product by them any time soon. They treat their customers like trash.

 

[Notton]

All the tech youtubers and review sites I have seen: This thing is amazing! Now about your RMA situation...

 

[Amdlova]

Asus? Pass

 

[peachpuff]

All the tech youtubers and review sites I have seen: This thing is amazing! Now about your RMA situation...

Ya easy to say its amazing when you're reviewing it for free and making money off of it.

 

[Notton]

Ya easy to say its amazing when you're reviewing it for free and making money off of it.

Yeah? but they also included the hard part, the RMA situation, in the article too.
There are less scrupulous reviewers out there who don't say anything bad at all.

 

[3tank]

as a device? its nice.

however I would still never recommend one to anyone given ASUS's business model.

ignoring the RMA drama recently the original Ally was flawed in design and problematic & they refuse to take the blame & ratehr than fix the issue to those who ordered their product they make a new version that doesnt have that issue & charge full price.

Their business model is too awful to recommend any product by them any time soon. They treat their customers like trash.

My experience is a mixed bag. The Ally is a good device but it's kind of messy in launch, in part due to windows. As a grab and go kind of device, it kind of wrecks the point of it when Windows bogs things down with apps that won't work until you system update, followed by Asus updates back to back. I had 1 joystick crap out and the only option I was given was to send it in and won't sell parts for something that easily replaced. I can live without the SD card but I think it ruined mine as the system would freeze up when inserted so that was $150 down the toilet of it's not salvageable.

I have sent things for RMA and did get them repaired/replaced at least after about a month without paying anything other than shipping.
My biggest concern is the 4090 thing. Mine has been great so far but it bugs me that Nvidia and 3rd parties haven't addressed this issue, let alone a recall for something that can be a fire hazard.

 

[noel_prg_la1979]

Asus has posted Drivers, Utlities and Bios/Firmware downloads for the ROG Ally X handheld pc in late June 2024. get them from this link:

ROG Ally X (2024) | Gaming Handhelds｜ROG Global

ROG Ally X: AAA gaming in your hands! AMD Z1 Extreme APU, 120Hz display, Zero Gravity thermal system for incredible performance on the go.

rog.asus.com