All three fashions of the Asus ROG Ally are on sale for Cyber Monday at Best Buy. These offers expire tonight at 10 PM PT / 1 AM ET.
The Asus ROG Ally with the AMD Ryzen Z1 chip is discounted to $350 (was $500), which matches the bottom value ever for the hand-held gaming PC.
The extra highly effective ROG Ally Z1 Excessive is on sale for $500 (was $650) at Best Buy. However you may get it for $450 with a My Best Buy Plus membership. For those who aren’t a member, it is smart to enroll because it solely prices $50 per yr; you are primarily getting the membership at no cost. Best Buy can also be providing a $100 low cost on the ROG Ally X, which gives a extra substantial efficiency leap.
$350 (was $500)
The bottom mannequin ROG Ally comes with a pointy 1080p display, AMD’s Ryzen Z1 processor, 16GB LPDDR5 6400 RAM, and an inner 512GB NVMe SSD.
If that is not sufficient house, you may all the time make use of a microSD card for a quick and cheap storage upgrade. Alternatively, you can upgrade the internal SSD with the WD Black SN770M 1TB or 2TB drive, which is on sale at Best Buy, too. If you want to upgrade your SSD without spending over $100, the Corsair MP600 Core Mini 1TB SSD for only $70 at Amazon.
The ROG Ally gives spectacular efficiency for the value. It is not going to play graphically demanding video games at excessive settings, however you continue to can play many AAA titles in 1080p decision with not less than 30fps. It is an particularly nice little machine for older AAA titles and indie video games that really feel proper at residence on handhelds.
It is value noting that Home windows will be cumbersome on gaming handhelds, except you pair it with a conventional mouse and keyboard setup. We would suggest grabbing a budget-friendly docking station, so you should utilize the machine like a daily desktop PC when needing to do something complicated inside Home windows. Asus additionally makes a 65W Charger Dock, which has ports for USB-C, USB 2.0, and HDMI 2.0.
Asus has a proprietary app known as Armoury Crate that provides you a extra conventional console-like interface for gaming, which is sort of useful after you have got issues squared away on the Home windows facet.
The ROG Ally with the Z1 Excessive chip has two further CPU cores and a greater GPU, which may make a distinction for newer, extra graphically demanding video games.
The Z1 Excessive chip can also be used within the latest addition to the Asus handheld PC household: the ROG Ally X. The ROG Ally X comes with 24GB RAM and has different welcome enhancements, together with a 1TB SSD, higher battery life, and upgraded joysticks.
Asus is releasing a $900 version with a 2TB SSD on December 9.