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Valve’s Steam Deck OLED and the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X sit at opposite ends of the same idea: a handheld PC you can hold in two hands and play real games on. One runs Linux and costs less than it did last year. The other runs Windows 11, packs a newer Ryzen chip, and…

Three gaming handhelds now define the top of the market, and none of them agree on how to get there. The Lenovo Legion Go 2 bets on a detachable-controller flagship with AMD’s newest Zen 5 silicon. The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X leans into Microsoft’s Xbox branding and a tighter, lighter chassis. The MSI Claw…

Asus and Microsoft sell two versions of the same handheld idea, and the price tag between them is bigger than most people expect. The ROG Xbox Ally starts at $599.99. The ROG Xbox Ally X costs $999.99. That’s a $400 gap for a device that looks nearly identical on a store shelf, runs the same…