Seeing so many advertisements for handheld gaming PCs from Asus and Lenovo. My understanding is all of these are running a windows 11 OS which surely adds a mountain of extra work to the device.
Why would anyone get one of these vs a steam deck with a dedicated, relatively lightweight OS? Is it purely to play games that have poor Linux support?
The Ally and Legion have a more powerful chip, but one that takes a lot more power to actually use that performance. Around 30-50% more performance in best case scenarios if you double the TDP (which means you’re getting less than an hour playing a game that actually needs that performance.)
Mind you, this is still with everything on low and upscaling from 720p to fit the higher res screen. Don’t bet on playing these super performance intensive AAA games at ultra settings with native resolution like you could with a full gaming PC.