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Blows my mind that none of these competing devices include touchpads. I swear half the games I play use the touchpads, whether it’s FPS-style games or something like Rimworld or Gunpoint.
That’s a pretty competitive machine. Unfortunately no Linux support is a deal breaker for me.
Valve is really missing out by not making SteamOS available to these OEMs. Or vise versa the OEMs not contacting Valve. Not sure which one it is. But everyone is losing (except Epic/GoG etc.)
I swear I’ll be dead before they figure out why they haven’t managed to take on the SteamDecks success. Put SteamOS on it. Put trackpads on it. What really separates this from the other devices? Slightly different hardware?
I just really like the track pads on the SD. They’re too useful to not have.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But compared to being AMD Ryzen powered, the Claw A1M makes use of an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H “Meteor Lake” SoC that launched last month and found in various laptop designs to date.
The MSI Claw A1M ships with Microsoft Windows 11 Home by default with no option for Linux.
It will be interesting to see just how well the MSI Claw A1M works under Linux and if there is any hardware support quirks or other issues.
This Intel Core Ultra 7 powered gaming handheld has a 7-inch 1080p display, 16GB of LPDDR5 system memory, up to 1TB of NVMe SSD storage, 53 Whr battery capacity, “revolutionary” cooling, Thunderbolt 4 support, and otherwise looks quite similar to the other recent gaming handheld devices.
The MSI Claw A1M is said to have a $699 USD starting price when it begins hitting retail channels in the near future.
For those curious yesterday I ran some rough benchmarks of the Core Ultra 7 155H versus AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme performance.
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Battery life is probably gonna be real bad. Dave2D said the lowest cTDP the APU can do is 15W, up to 30W at the highest. That would drain the battery in no time.
Also have you seen the cooling system? 4 heatpipes and two fans, this is designed to draw loads of power. In my opinion misses the point of the formfactor.
No real competitor to the deck.