Lenovo has debuted its personal handheld gaming PC to compete in opposition to the likes of the Steam Deck and the Asus ROG Ally. The Home windows 11-powered Legion Go launches in October for $699, and it’ll be out there from Lenovo’s web site in addition to Finest Purchase and Micro Middle.
The Legion Go may seem like its rivals (its specs are just like theirs, too), however its high-end display and feature-packed removable controllers are at present unmatched on this area. The show is an 8.8-inch touchscreen that tops out at 1600p decision and a 144 Hz refresh charge; it might probably scale all the way down to 800p and 60 Hz to protect battery life and maximize efficiency. Don’t anticipate the machine’s 49.2 Wh battery to carry a cost for lengthy whereas pushing 1600p decision (although Lenovo claims it might probably recharge again to 70% in half-hour whenever you use the included 65 W charger).
The Legion Go’s makes an attempt to face out within the handheld PC area depend on methods that the Nintendo Change popularized (however hardly perfected). It has a kickstand, as an example, permitting it to recline with out the necessity for extra equipment. The Legion Go’s signature function is removable controllers, which seem like high-tech Pleasure-Cons. They embody correct Corridor impact joysticks, and primarily based on my expertise, these aren’t liable to drifting after prolonged use — in contrast to the potentiometers constructed into the analog sticks in most controllers nowadays. The entire normal buttons are right here, plus plenty of extras, together with a number of customizable macro buttons, a thumb trackpad, and even a mouse scroll wheel, for crying out loud.
To make taking part in first-person shooters simpler, the proper controller will be nested in a magnetic dock that holds it upright. As soon as it’s set in FPS mode with a toggle change, an optical sensor on the underside kicks on, letting you progress it round like a mouse for extra correct aiming. It’s a cool concept, and I’m curious to see if it really works effectively in apply.
Just like the ROG Ally and the Steam Deck, the Legion Go will be docked to a monitor or a TV, and you may join controllers to it by way of Bluetooth. It will probably additionally run video games off of a microSD card in addition to a M.2 2242-sized PCIe NVMe SSD (just like the one Lenovo makes use of for some ThinkPad laptops). The beginning mannequin features a 256 GB SSD, however Lenovo will provide 512 GB and 1 TB configurations as effectively, though the corporate didn’t announce worth factors for these variations.
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When you take pleasure in a lifetime of luxurious, the Legion Go will be considered out of your very personal personal, digital display with Lenovo’s new wired Legion Glasses, which the corporate additionally introduced Friday. These glasses allow a conveyable large-screen expertise, with a micro-OLED show that may push 1080p decision at a 60 Hz refresh charge to every eye.
Additionally they ship what Lenovo claims is “high-fidelity” audio with the machine’s built-in audio system. Higher but, they’ll work with extra than simply the Legion Go. Any machine that helps USB-C video output by way of DisplayPort alt mode ought to work, together with Home windows and macOS computer systems, Android telephones, and presumably different moveable gaming {hardware}. Just like the Legion Go, the Legion Glasses are coming in October; they’ll price $329.