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The MSI Claw has been officially announced at CES 2024 and it's entirely powered by Intel. No pricing or release date has been revealed yet.
I've been following this for a while, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this does in a world of AMD-powered handheld gaming PCs.
Same. I’ll be observing too. My guess is that most games would be optimized for AMD. But let’s see what happens. More options is always better.
As much as I love the steam deck. GPD where doing handheld pc consoles for a few years and where fairly good.
Valve simply made handheld pc gaming cool on name online.
Well they also made it affordable, cause those GPD handhelds were in the thousands when I first saw em years back. I'd also argue that Linux, and steam os is a better alternative to having windows. The ease of a console like experience with the option of a more traditional PC os with a lot of user made apps is pretty great.
@inverno
I 100% agree with you. I love how far Linux has came in the last few years when it comes to gaming. I really hope we get to the point where all future games have a Linux version. I would gladly ditch windows at that point.
I love my steamdeck but there are times when I need to hop onto windows.
I beat banner saga 1 and the moving the data is a bit more complicated via SD.
So I installed BS1+2 on Windows PC, then the savedata auto transferred to deck.
I'd love a device that could boot steamos and win
You can dualboot windows and steam os on steam deck you can even do that on a desktop/laptop.
I just wished that the ROG Ally had a bigger screen. Also, how is someone going to downvote someone, simply because they said they were happy with their purchase?
Madness.
All Intel PC still have a lot to prove.
And It would be funny that if it finally hit its stride with Handheld gaming PC instead on Desktop.
MSI obvioisly have to priced this right or it could fail as it doesn't have AMD safe cushion to fall back to.
Buying into All Intel hardware is a still big ask and high risk investment to many people.
This. Intel is the newcomer to the scene, and this new SoC has many eyes on it .Hardware-wise, it does have a leg up on the current AMD SoCs we see in most handhelds. XeSS is definitely better than AMD's FSR tech.
It's going to be interesting.
As for the Steam Deck, it's most definitely a win the Valve needed, seeing how it fell flat on its face when it tried to pitch SteamOS so many years ago. Does anyone remember the Steam Machines? Eh... what a time.
does not compute.
i has an msi 7950 in my pc since 2 years ago.
what does first amd gaming card mean?
This isn't a big enough upgrade from my 670 GTX. Bring on the 290X or lower the price of the 780 GTX. I need to upgrade for 1440p :(
@ Bolts
In the same position. Just going to sit tight with the PC until early next year and see how the PS4 is doing and decide then.