The ASUS ROG Ally Is $100 Off Right Now At Best Buy
The buzz around the ASUS ROG Ally has been quite a whirlwind ever since its grand reveal last year. Packing impressive specs into a compact 7-inch form factor, the ROG Ally basically redefined handheld gaming while giving some serious competition to the Steam Deck. And guess what? Best Buy just sweetened the pot by putting up a whopping $100 price cut on the console.
Under the hood, the ROG Ally runs on an AMD Ryzen Z1 chip, a specialized APU that was exclusively engineered for handheld gaming. This powerful collaboration with AMD's RDNA 2 graphics goes a long way in making sure that the Z1 delivers performance and visuals that go toe-to-toe with mainstream consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Fun fact: APU refers to an Accelerated Processing Unit, which is just fancy speak for a processor that is essentially a blend of CPU and GPU!
Coming to the display, the ROG Ally's 7-inch has a robust 1920 x 1200 resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate, which means that your visuals are going to be sorted. What sets the ROG Ally apart from its competition is its support for different gaming ecosystems.
Straight out of the box, this baby is primed to play games from multiple storefronts such as Steam, Epic Games Store, and Xbox Game Pass, all while running the latest Windows 11 operating system. If that wasn't enough, we're also looking at some incredible cloud gaming support, thanks to compatibility with Xbox Cloud and NVIDIA's GeForce NOW.
A handheld beast.
Check out the ASUS ROG Ally, a powerful handheld gaming console with a 7-inch 1080p 120Hz display, AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, and full Windows 11 compatibility.
Oh, and by the way, if you still don't think the juice is enough for you, the Ally gives you the option to hook it up to an RTX 4090 through the ASUS XG mobile, which straight up puts you in the same league as some of the high-end gaming laptops out there. Not to mention the brilliant all-day battery life, which basically backs all this
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