The AYANEO 3 has now had more of a proper announcement with more details and a clear picture of what it actually looks like.
Announced today it will come in two models with either the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or the AMD Ryzen 7 8840U. You also get two different screen options between a 7" high-refresh LCD horizontal display and a 7" high-refresh high-brightness HDR OLED. AYANEO didn't say, but I presume the older AMD Ryzen chip will be paired up with the plain LCD screen to make their manufacturing simpler and cheaper.
AYANEO also said it will have new rear buttons and trigger lock keys, an "impressive leap in audio quality" along with "several proprietary key components" with more info to be revealed later.
Pictured - AYANEO 3, credit: AYANEO.
And of course, there's some fancy lighting around the thumbsticks too because everything gamer related has to has some form of RGB lighting.
They also put up a video for the announcement:
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They have not yet revealed a price. So while yes, it's an announcement, it's still pretty lacking in many details.
As a big fan of gaming handhelds as a regular Steam Deck gamer, I'm keen to see this hardware category continue to evolve, especially with a bit more power to run more of the latest games at acceptable performance.
For this though, since it will ship with Windows, we'll be waiting on the likes of Bazzite and ChimeraOS to get support for it hooked up for running Linux on it. Hopefully they won't have too much trouble with whatever these "proprietary key components" turn out to be, which does cause some concern.
So far then, it seems very much like their usual refresh of their handhelds, certainly nothing they've said comes even close to the "revolution" they initially announced it as.
More info when I have it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Mohandevir 8 Nov 2024
dziadulewicz 8 Nov 2024
OLED screen! Rear buttons!
Never seen before!
But yes seen before: Spydows 11 eating up battery and even setting devices in flames
soulless corporate ad.
generic product...
"Revolution"
like when it got over exposure on mic
Last edited by elmapul on 8 Nov 2024 at 7:08 pm UTC
And "impressive leap in audio quality" could mean that it's the same as before.
Everything is still so vague that it has to be really expensive.
RavenWings 8 Nov 2024
Spoiler, click me
CyborgZeta 9 Nov 2024
I don't even know Ayaneo but it sounds like another disappointing, sus, Asian Drop-shipping Company, on Amazon.
No touchpad or Linux, no interesado. no siquiera un poquito 🤷♂️
Why do these Steam Deck competitors never have trackpads? How do you expect me to navigate a desktop, and Windows at that, without at least one trackpad?The trackpads use (or if you don't use them waste) a lot of space. Because of the trackpads everything else is weirdly positioned on the Deck. And if your use case is really just desktop navigation (which should be rarely the case), the touch display is the better solution.
Even though some games play much better with the trackpad, I prefer a device without them.
RavenWings 9 Nov 2024
Why do these Steam Deck competitors never have trackpads? How do you expect me to navigate a desktop, and Windows at that, without at least one trackpad?
Yeah, thats my #1 proplem with this and most other devices. Even apart from desktop-use and mouse-based-gaming, thanks to the excellent steam-input, the trackpads have endless ways to be utilized. Its hard to imagine going back to anything without em and its also the main reason I really need Valve to make a new Steam Controller.
Last edited by RavenWings on 9 Nov 2024 at 8:55 am UTC
Annual Flagship 
(A brownie point if you can tell what game manual(s?) it's from!)I don't know any, but I want the information.
the touch display is the better solutionNooooo… everything gets smudged. I hate touchscreens.
Avehicle7887 9 Nov 2024
A handheld unfriendly and resource hog OS. Then they had to cram the obligatory AI which is silly for a handheld designed mostly for gaming.
The video is also mentions "dual processor" which is very misleading, non tech people might even interpret it as if the handheld has both. Do they even what dual processor means?
The only thing I see as revolutionary here is the amount of bull-dung.
CyborgZeta 10 Nov 2024
I get where you're coming from, maybe it's just me, but I like the layout of the Deck. As someone that prefers symmetrical sticks like on Dualshock controllers, the Deck's stick and button layout is pretty much perfect for me.Why do these Steam Deck competitors never have trackpads? How do you expect me to navigate a desktop, and Windows at that, without at least one trackpad?The trackpads use (or if you don't use them waste) a lot of space. Because of the trackpads everything else is weirdly positioned on the Deck. And if your use case is really just desktop navigation (which should be rarely the case), the touch display is the better solution.
Even though some games play much better with the trackpad, I prefer a device without them.
The video starts with the best opening line - "Annual Top Flagship Windows Handheld"
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A handheld unfriendly and resource hog OS. Then they had to cram the obligatory AI which is silly for a handheld designed mostly for gaming.
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Strike one for stupid branding; they're not cramming in ai, they're using amd's ai-branded mobile processors. Big difference: while the naming is repulsive, the processors themselves turn out to have a very interesting performance/power-consumption ratio. Which, one has got to admit, is somewhat less silly.
Basically, all ayaneo had to do to really grab the enthusiast's interest was name that processor (preferably with the code name, not the ai-manure). All the rest being fluff more likely to scare them away despite that nugget of info.
Last edited by emphy on 10 Nov 2024 at 5:20 am UTC
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