Every hardware vendor seems to want a go at making a handheld, and now its ZOTAC jumping in with the Zone.
Teased during Computex it will come with an AMD Ryzen 7 8840U (Zen 4) and AMD Radeon 870M graphics (RDNA 3). It will also come with 2-stage adjustable triggers, hall effect joysticks and triggers, a 1920x1080 7" AMOLED multi-touch 120Hz display, a front-facing camera and even dual trackpads.
Zotac shared some images on X (formerly Twitter):
It looks pretty big. And of course, it will come with Windows. So if you want to run it on Linux, you'll need to wait for drivers to be worked on and for the likes of ChimeraOS and Bazzite to get support ready for it.
“Ever since the establishment of the ZOTAC GAMING brand, we have strived to provide an unmatched gaming experience for enthusiasts worldwide,” Said Tony Wong, Chief Executive Officer of ZOTAC. “We have made considerable efforts to raise the bar with our debut handheld, tailor-made with competitive features for all gamers.”
Valve well and truly lit a fire under everyone didn't they with the Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED? Handheld PCs for gaming are now really becoming a bigger mainstream thing. We also had the silly-named MSI Claw 8 AI+ revealed recently too.
The ZOTAC Zone will launch in September priced reportedly around $800. So they're not even remotely trying to compete with the Steam Deck at that price. The price alone may be the biggest issue with it.
You can follow it on their store.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: PhiladelphusSheesh. Because of you I just spent five minutes reading about the Yellowstone supervolcano . . . probably for the second time.Quoting: BlackBloodRumWhy does everyone write this?Why, anyone in today's 10,000, of course.
X (formerly Twitter)
I mean.. who doesn't know this at this point?
Quoting: nondetectQuoting: Viesta2015Ah just what i needed... recall spyware on my handheldsThe option to disable the Recall function is available in the Settings. And by rumors it's been available to select during the initial setup screen, at least in Europe.
Given microsoft's history with such things, one would need to be be truly naive to trust them to honour such a setting, both in spirit and its definition.
Even then, expect microsoft updates to mess with the setting.
Last edited by emphy on 6 June 2024 at 6:42 am UTC
Viesta2015 Jun 6
Quoting: emphypeople have been getting access to recall... and it's on by default.Quoting: nondetectQuoting: Viesta2015Ah just what i needed... recall spyware on my handheldsThe option to disable the Recall function is available in the Settings. And by rumors it's been available to select during the initial setup screen, at least in Europe.
Given microsoft's history with such things, one would need to be be truly naive to trust them to honour such a setting, both in spirit and its definition.
Even then, expect microsoft updates to mess with the setting.
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