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ASUS $699 ROG Ally gaming console with AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU is now available (videocardz.com)

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[–] zero01101 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

plus:

screen's fantastic
speakers're fantastic
cpu's fantastic
feels nice to hold
only 2 back triggers to learn to avoid and/or deal with

minus:

single usb-c
it's on the top
no nifty touchpads
battery is definitely a bit stressed
cloud restore only works if your warranty is active apparently which i promise will be annoying

nightmare:

the windows 11 and asus trashware startup experience; i mean my god, i had to do the cloud reinstall to even login to the thing reliably

on first boot OOBE i tried to just login with my existing personal ms account which i guess was my first mistake, but it worked fine. i added a fingerprint and it also worked fine. i then added a PIN and it also worked fine. windows downloaded updates and demanded a reboot which is fine. it rebooted and i logged in with a thumbprint just fine. then armoury crate said HEY FIRMWARE UPDATE DEMANDS REBOOT so ok fine reboot and down the spiral we go. fingerprint doesn't work. PIN fails, "something went wrong" with a side of 0xd0000225 over and over. check bios, v317. event viewer says something about some exe with "biometric" in its title failing repeatedly. looks like i have to update through armory crate again? oh, the asus app? does that require me to sign up? it sure looks like it does... ok no, just dark patterns. more updates. more failed login attempts and the most alerts from MS authenticator i've ever had in one afternoon. bios v319, windows and my asus and armoire box all claim everything's as up to date as one can get, but you're sure gonna have to get a notification and cancel a request to reset your PIN on each login

i genuinely thought it might be headed for a refund, but shift+f10 and OOBE\BYPASSNRO after cloud restore let me make a local account and it's been smooth since, but i've barely installed we <3 katamari reroll on it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

haha, sorry to hear, but i'm not even surprised at that all failed login and almost-but-not-quite-refund debacle, that's why i only ever set up local accounts on windows nowadays.
i'd be interested to get your opinion on the Ally once you've had a chance to play a bit more with it, especially compared to the Deck.

[–] zero01101 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oh god very likewise; i simply didn't realize there was even a way to setup win11 with a purely local account on a home edition... haven't gotten around to putting win11 on anything else yet :/

so far, it's definitely far superior hardware (i mean the screen resolution alone is one thing, but dat refresh rate... let's not talk about the thumbsticks please) but a significantly weaker software experience; valve knocked the UI/UX for deck out of the park

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