Asus confirms the ROG Ally will begin at $600 — if you happen to can wait until Q3

Asus PR advised us it wouldn’t have pricing and availability for that mannequin at this time, so it’s a little bit of a shock to see official affirmation!

Higher nonetheless, it appears to be like like Asus isn’t skimping on storage, because it’ll include a 512GB PCIe Gen 4 SSD for that worth. (Leaked knowledge steered it’d have a 256GB SSD.)

Contemplating Valve prices $650 for its 512GB Steam Deck with a last-gen processor, that mannequin is beginning to appear like a fairly whole lot, notably if you happen to aren’t keen to switch a $400 Deck’s inner SSD — however I might strongly encourage you to attend for critiques of this second mannequin.

First, I simply reviewed the $700 ROG Ally for The Verge, and its issues have little to do with worth / efficiency — they’re about battery life and portability, and we’ve got no indication that Asus will enhance these simply by inserting a distinct chip with the identical TDP. Second, nobody exterior Asus has gotten to check the vanilla Z1 mannequin. (Even the staff at Asus who answered my technical questions haven’t touched it but.)

Should you’ve bought any questions in regards to the ROG Ally that I didn’t reply in my evaluation, please go away them within the feedback there! I spent 3,300 phrases on it, and I nonetheless didn’t fairly handle to cram all my findings in.