The Steam Deck's Zen 2 APU tops out at 15W. According to Asus, the Ally's core components are cooling correctly, but the SD card reader can't handle the heat.

If you do have an ROG Ally and you're based in the US, then you might take comfort in the fact that Asus now offers a 24-month warranty on the card reader (double the initial period). If an SD ...

ASUS has elected to extend the warranty period on the ROG Ally systems to a full two years from the purchase date. If your handheld's MicroSD card reader has failed, you can send it in to ASUS for ...

The Asus ROG Ally X will come with a bigger battery and much longer battery life, a new SD card reader, more repairable joysticks, and a new black colorway, but stick to the same chipset as the ...

ASUS ROG Ally X Credit: Mitch Wallace I’ve just recently waded into the handheld PC hardware market, and while I never got a chance to try the original ASUS ROG Ally, I’ve now spent a week or ...

The ROG Ally’s UHS-II microSD card interface allows for faster reading and writing speeds than UHS-I, the baseline spec found in the Steam Deck, the Nintendo Switch, and in several other devices.

After making a somewhat anti-climatic tease last month, Asus has properly revealed the ROG Ally X, its next handheld gaming PC with better battery life, more storage, and a black color variant.

As such, if you're really wanting an upgraded ROG Ally, you'd be better off going with the ROG Ally X for now since we know it's launching on July 22, 2024 and it's already available for preorder.

But the ROG Ally X has more memory and storage than the original, upgraded ports, and twice as much battery capacity. The Asus ROG Ally X is available for pre-order from Best Buy for $800.

Asus has begun selling a $600 model of the ROG Ally with a lower-performance AMD Z1 chip, but early reviews suggest the Windows gaming handheld is too compromised to justify the purchase.

The ROG Ally X retails for $800 and can be purchased at Best Buy and the Asus website. So far, it does not look like Best Buy has sold out, and since we are a few days away from launch, ideally ...