A year and a half later and the Steam Deck's trackpads are finally being copied in a new handheld PC

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It's taken nearly a year and a half but finally another handheld gaming PC is launching with a pair of trackpads like the Steam Deck. The Ayaneo Kun is the latest to hit Indiegogo with an official launch set for the end of August, and comes sporting the near ubiquitous Ryzen 7 7840U APU.

Those trackpads have been the only things setting Valve's handheld apart from the raft of AMD-powered devices that have followed it, aside from maybe the somewhat intangible benefits of SteamOS. But those twin pads, set below the thumbsticks, are aiming to provide mouse-like functionality for the benefit of your very PC games.

The original Steam Deck trackpads were built from the ruins of the old Steam Controller. While I am still and forever more not sold on just how effective they are for aping the classic mouse and keyboard control for FPS, it gives gamers on a handheld device far more control for strategy and management games that really don't play nice on controller. 

You can play Crusader Kings III on a handheld, but it's not fun. But with even the small trackpads of the Steam Deck you get a pretty decent mouse-like experience.

That's what the Ayaneo Kun is aiming to bring to its big boi handheld, though it's sporting round «innovative dual intelligent touchpads» instead of Valve's square pads. It's hailing this as the first Windows handheld with a touchpad design, and it will be interesting to see how well they function, and just what Ayaneo does with a pair of them.

This isn't the only thing the Kun had going for it, or that is making it stand out from the crowd. It's hoofing big. Bigger than the Steam Deck, and is being pegged by Ayaneo as designed for «semi-mobile scenarios.» Basically, you're not going to be slipping it into a