I'm a smitten kitten. And it's nothing to do with the fetching red clothing of the version of the new OneXFly F1 Pro I've been testing, either. Which is a good job, because this Evangelion EVA-02 version isn't available outside of China, so if that was the real kicker you guys would be out of luck.
No, the real kicker is that this is the first gaming handheld PC I've used, held, or tested that sports AMD's latest APU, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370—the chip whose name I can rarely get right on the first try. Seriously, it's a curse, and I only ever remember the first bit because I know it's AMD desperately trying to make 'Ryzen AI' happen. Stop trying to make Ryzen AI happen.
The Strix Point silicon is a bit of a game-changer for handhelds, especially when you start to factor in all the other extras AMD has crafted that really play into the literal hands of PC gamers. Radeon Anti-Lag and Fluid Motion Frames 2 really are the key ones for handheld gaming, but also any game which sports FSR3 and its own per-game frame generation implementations, too.
Those are what sets the OneXFly F1 Pro apart from any other gaming handheld you could care to mention, because of how the HX 370 extends performance over the competition. Mind you, the $1,339 price tag will also set it apart. That's the sort of money that will get you a full RTX 4070 Super gaming PC and still leave you change enough to buy yourself a decent 1080p gaming monitor, too. So yeah, you've got to really want the form factor and performance to consider dropping that sort of cash on a handheld.
APU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
Cores: 12
Threads: 24
GPU: Radeon 890M
Compute Units: 16
RAM: 32 GB LPDDR5X-7500
Storage: 1 TB Acer N7000
Battery: 48.5 Wh
Weight: ~599 g
Price: $1,339
But mobile gaming is expensive; high-end handheld PCs doubly so. That's where Valve came in and played a blinder with the Steam Deck; it took Nintendo's Switch smarts, picked a lower spec chip, and stuck to a price point. Asus and Lenovo, with their own
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