Unboxing the Lenovo LEGION Go: Your Ultimate Tech Adventure

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Welcome! In this hefty little box I have the brand new Lenovo Legion Go that has
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just dropped in, well, where I am which is Poland and that is about a week or a
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couple weeks later than what you guys got it from. So anyway let's get straight
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into it. This is going to be unboxing along with a quick look at it. I'm not
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gonna focus too much on it just because it is basically a full computer so there
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is way too much to actually talk about in terms of like all its features and
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all that stuff so this is just going to be a quick look and I'm gonna talk about
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just the most important aspect of it. So anyway let's just get straight into it
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In here we get the case that comes with the device and the device already being
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inside of it. It is a hard shell with a nice little loop to hold it. I'm
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gonna set it to the side because we have a couple additional things in here. We
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have whatever this is so looks like just a protective layer along with some
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couple information about the device. Not very important. Under that we got
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some Lenovo premium care. Okay whatever. Below that instruction and then here we
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get the charger. That's how it opens. So there's the charger. This is going to be a pretty decent charger. I'm gonna
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look at it later. Let's just get rid of this so we have a little bit more space
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Getting into the package we are presented with the device itself. So we do have some
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more area right here. This is empty inside it just provides more cushioning
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so if you drop it the force of it wouldn't actually be hitting anything
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we just kind of like sunk in a little bit. Then we get whatever this is
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Legion space. This is supposed to be a cleaning cloth for the display. Anyway
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got this nice pull tab right here so you can easily take it out. Oh and below
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that we have the puck for one of the controllers because you can use this as
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a mouse. Getting into the device. It does feel really nice I have to say
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Just checking it out. So anyway I'm gonna also take that out. Close it and just
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again eat that on the ground. So let's put it up so we can see the display. Come on
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We need to charge it. Or is that another power button
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Okay it looks like I might need to charge it. So let's do that right now
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Oh come on how much velcro do you need? Okay Okay now it's booting up. So you have a little bit of an RGB lighting around
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the sticks. Anyway let's just jump into the specs of this device. Which I'm
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gonna grab my mouse. Now that being said I'm gonna start off by saying that this
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is a this device is very similar to the Lenovo. What am I thinking of? Okay am I
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stupid and I don't know how to turn that on? Very similar to the Asus ROG
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Ally. That's what it was. So it has the same processor as that device. Now the
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benefit over the Ally is the fact that this one has a bigger battery. So if I
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remember correctly this one has a 48 hour battery meaning it should last a
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little bit longer. Now it doesn't really do anything extra with that so in terms
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of the speeds and all that stuff it's going to be the same even though it
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could push that processor harder than the Ally did. Now it is in Polish so
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I'm gonna see if I can change the language. But that being said let's talk about the display which is a massive display that is being blown out by the
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camera right now. Can I maybe change the brightness here quickly? Doesn't look
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like it. So sorry for the blown out aspect of it right now. Let's see
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Oh no no no. I mean region is whatever I would like to change the language. Maybe
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I can do it on the next page let's see. I guess I can. Anyway so it looks like this
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device here comes with just one language which is quite annoying. So in my case I
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would need to finish up the setup and then once it's finished I would then
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need to add a language through settings. So you know what I'm not gonna really do
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that. I absolutely hate that it comes pre-installed with Windows 11 just
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because I hate this dogshit system. It is obviously the optimal one probably. I
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would probably want to flash this with the one that Steam Deck runs just because
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I absolutely I think hate Windows and specifically 11. I despise the fact that
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I cannot finish up the setup without actually connecting to Wi-Fi. Like what the f*** is this design? Go f*** yourself with this stupid thing. There's no reason why
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I should be forced to connect to network. Let's be honest. So anyway let's talk
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about the display. Now I'm not sure if that was visible on the on the camera
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but this display is smooth. It is 144 Hertz smooth. So it is an 8 inch display
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if I remember correctly 8.8 exactly running a resolution of 2560 by 1600. Now
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this is way more refresh rate and resolution than this tiny little
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processor Z1 Extreme can push. It is a powerful processor for this kind of
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handheld form-factor but it is not powerful enough to allow you to game at
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144 Hertz at basically 2k resolution. So if you're thinking of doing so this will
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not allow you to. It might be able to do such a thing for some like super low
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performance indie games that won't really require much much power but if
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you're planning to play AAA games you basically will be playing it at either
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1080p or even 720p and that will be running at maybe 60 to 90 Hertz I would
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assume. Basically the performance is exactly the same or very close to the
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ROG Ally with a bigger battery. Now continuing on this device comes with 16
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gigabytes of LPDDR5X RAM. It has a 512 gigabyte SSD NVMe disk in here
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Obviously touch display running 144 Hertz refresh rate on an 8.8 inch
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display 2k resolution and then we have a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.2 in here so it's
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going to be a little bit more power efficient. And let's see what else we get
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to say about this device. Running Android 11 which is like that's what I
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got for it and the benefit over the Z1 or not Z1, the ROG Ally will be the fact
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that we can detach these controllers. Now we do so by assume pressing these
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buttons right here. It's the first time I'm actually using this so let's try it
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Yep there we go. So you press it and pull it down and they pop off. Now
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additionally this itself is a pretty sweet little tablet that basically becomes a tablet once you detach these things and it is a full-fledged computer
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that can just take on a go. It's almost small enough to fit into the pocket and
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powerful enough to do a lot of things including gaming. Additionally we do
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have a kickstand right here that I can flip like so. I can place it up in a
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standing position and let's see how far it goes. Okay yeah that's as far as it
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goes as you can see. So it is in a really reclined position and when it
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comes to the controllers you could use them as they are right now detached like
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this and they will still work. They do have a small battery inside but
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additionally the right controller has some gimmicky looking things on here. So
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you can see we do have this right here and we have the buttons sideways which
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if you compare it to the other one as you can see they look a little bit
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different. And we also have these ones right here M1 and M2. So these are
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mouse clicks and then this is our scroll wheel. Not sure why these are now
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sideways. It is a mouse 3 button right here. I assume I would hold it like this
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Bit odd. Anyway let's grab the stand for it. Now it is magnetic and it does
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actually hold pretty well. That was one of my concerns. Might not always sit
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correctly as you can see but once you place it down it should be fine. It does
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give you this palm rest area so when you hold it it
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actually just you know you know holds. Now this is... how am I supposed to hold this
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to be completely honest? Because it is not... okay so this button goes all the way
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down to here. So I guess I would use it like this. So my thumb presses the mouse
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button 3 and then I can press these two separately. Now the thing that kind of
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becomes a little bit uncomfortable is the scroll wheel right here. It is a
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little bit too high but it needed to be kind of out of the way so when you're
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actually holding it in a normal way like this when it's part of the device it
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doesn't get in the way. Because in logical usability standpoint it would be
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more comfortable to have it somewhere around here but one of your
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fingers would be resting right here so obviously not a very good place. In
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general this will be something that you might need to get used to. It is a good
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addition that you can utilize for this and it works really well. It's basically
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I actually didn't say it is basically a mouse. A wireless one. Let's see how
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it works. Now we do need to turn it on right here. Do I need to do any kind of
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setup? Come on. I guess it will not work till I finish up the setup. So that's a little bit of a
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shame. Again the shitty design of Windows 11. Like screw this system. So anyway
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this was just a quick overview of this device. Like I said there is way more to
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this. It is a full-fledged computer and a gaming console in a way which gives you
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a lot of versatility. The fact that it can just actually detach the display
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itself from the controllers. This gives you a lot of versatility and itself
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package itself wasn't the screen with a computer inside. It's powerful enough to
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allow you to game and you could technically up connect normal things
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like keyboards and the actual mouse for instance like this one to it. Now keep in
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mind there is limited amount of ports so we do have an SD card. It's actually
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a bit of a shame to talk about the ports because I haven't done so. So we do have
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our type-c port right here and there's also another one at the bottom so you
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can choose where you want to charge it from wherever will be more convenient
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for you. We have a micro SD card, volume rockers, power button, headphone jack and
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then like I mentioned at the bottom we do have the charging port. Then on the sides we just have the connections for the controllers which you connect
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pretty easily once you actually get it in there. There we go
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So once it's correctly seated you just kind of push it up, clicks into place
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Now let's see if there's any kind of... there is auditory cue you can hear it
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click into place but let's see this button. Yes we can see it kind of like
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flip into place and same thing will be for this one. Let's just turn off the
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FPS mode though. Although it's not like it's working. So you start from the
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bottom and push it up. Now this one was barely hearable and there we go
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Once they're on there they actually hold pretty well there is not much flex to it
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and the size of them actually makes it very comfortable to hold this device
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unlike some other ones which have much thinner design of these controllers
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however you want to call it. You get a full like grip around it which
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obviously makes it much more comfortable to hold. Now in terms of the controllers
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themselves we have a trackpad on our right controller. We have our thumb
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sticks right here, the X, Y, A and B buttons, the menu buttons and D-pad. Now I'm not
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necessarily too like good at fighting games so I don't know how well this one
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works for like just basic games where it uses it to switch something. It's fine
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it's tactile but if you want to like roll it it doesn't really feel like it's
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too good for it. And then we have a couple more buttons for our windows and
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like I mentioned before we do have several buttons on the controllers themselves like the M1 and M2 which will be utilized for your mouse. We also have
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our triggers so these are pressure sensitive so it's not like on-off it's
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basically a, if you have a throttle it will basically measure in percentages so
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that's pretty good. We have our buttons left and right, upper one. Yeah and that's
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it. Now one thing that I want to point out for me at least when I'm holding this I'm not sure if this is designed by like this intentionally or not but when
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I'm holding it basically with my like hands I am pressing the M2 button
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right here. I don't know if it does have any kind of functions when it's not in
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mouse mode but it's every time I kind of like grab it I am pressing this button
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easily. It's literally right here like under my where I would normally be
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pressing it. So any kind of like shift like you know repositioning so I want to
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grab it a little bit more firmly will press it which might not be the intended like design. Also one thing that I want to point out the difference
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between these buttons so on the left controllers the what is it M1 no wait
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that's Y1 and Y2 are positioned vertically while the M2 and Y3 I think
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it is it is positioned vertically or horizontally I mean. So it's not
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symmetrical because of it and again most of these buttons are being pressed
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by me unintentionally. These ones on the the left one I can I don't have to press
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intentionally right I only press them when I actually want to and I do have a
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pretty firm grip. Now when I if I try to hold it one hand obviously I will press
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them just because they are kind of under my fingers but these no matter how I
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hold it I will always be pressing multiple of them because my middle
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finger just kind of wraps around them literally around them and then the index
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one at the beginning of it just keeps pressing the mouse 2 button so
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hopefully that won't have any kind of impact in gaming and won't be like
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pressing random buttons I hope these are deactivated or deactivated ball because they're not very convenient at least for how I'm holding it and me
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pressing them constantly without actually wanting to press them. So there we go that's the console computer it is a pretty nice piece of tech the only
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thing that it's lacking in my opinion because it is virtually the same thing
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as the ROG Ally. The ROG Ally has the benefit of having their like proprietary
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GPUs so you can buy a separate GPU plug it in with the connector that it comes
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with and basically use the Z1 Extreme as just a processor and then use the
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dedicated GPU that you can plug in as just the GPU giving you stupid amount of
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additional power that you previously didn't have. Here we don't have that so
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we are only relying on the Z1 Extreme as the GPU and CPU processor and we can
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not offload the load unless some people might try it using the Type-C if
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they are Thunderbolt compatible I don't know could be that's something that you
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need to look into but in general as a on-the-go device without additional GPU
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this will be a fantastic one it looks like it's way better ventilated than the
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ROG Ally has a bigger battery while still giving you the same amount of
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performance as that device so there we go. Now hopefully you found this video
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helpful I do kind of geek out about this kind of things I do like I like the ROG
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and I do like this one and Legion Go they both are a pretty sweet pieces of
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tech the only problem that I see coming is the lack of optimizations from games
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so just kind of pointing that out we recently got Alan Wake and most of
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these devices are already running on fumes when it comes on to AAA
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gaming and that was when it was optimized now most of the new games
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require you to basically upscale with DLSS or FSR and also use frame
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generation to get a respectable frame rate this is not what I would consider
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that this technology was intended for but the shitty lazy ass developers
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basically utilize this to basically offload the what you call it optimizations of games so instead of optimizing it they just slap on the FSR
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cool frame generation yeah let's go and we're good to go no optimization needed
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now with a device like that that doesn't support frame generation as far as I know not exactly sure what this is is it Intel 8 I know that's AMD what am I
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saying so it should use what was it FSR so it is possible that it might get the
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frame generation keep in mind this kind of tech is good when you're already
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getting good frame rate it makes it better if you're getting like 30 20
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frames Alan Wake probably not even that he could probably turn that down to like
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the potato quality and still get like 15 frames most likely so yeah 15 double
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that you get about 30 frames with artifacting all over the place just
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because you're not really getting much frame rate this is not going to be a
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very good device for high demanding games and the laziness and basically
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cost-cutting of way up from optimizations of games is going to affect
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these kind of devices all together which is not good I would say I would really
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like these devices to you know thrive and just kind of be good and they are
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but the gaming is getting worse and in general especially the optimization for
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it and it's kind of cutting out these devices from being viable for AAA
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gaming if most developers just cut costs don't optimize you with your nice
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little computer that is fairly capable it won't be able to run these games just
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because they are so poorly optimized so just kind of wanted to point that out it
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does suck but it is a very important thing to mention when looking for a
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device like that and especially if you have already experienced the absolute
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show that is the optimization of current and games anyway if you found this rant
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