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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.

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pb 4 days ago
So, no built-in steering wheel?

CyborgZeta 4 days ago
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?
bertraar 4 days ago
I wonder if they’re trying to be like Apple.
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 🤷‍♂️
poiuz 3 days ago
Quoting: CyborgZetaWhy 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 3 days ago
Quoting: CyborgZetaWhy 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 November 2024 at 8:55 am UTC
dpanter 3 days ago
If you can't create actual revolution, store bought imaginary is fine.

Annual Flagship
Klaas 3 days ago
Quoting: whizse(A brownie point if you can tell what game manual(s?) it's from!)
I don't know any, but I want the information.

Quoting: poiuzthe touch display is the better solution
Nooooo… everything gets smudged. I hate touchscreens.
Avehicle7887 3 days ago
The video starts with the best opening line - "Annual Top Flagship Windows Handheld"

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 3 days ago
Quoting: poiuz
Quoting: CyborgZetaWhy 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.
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.
emphy 3 days ago
Quoting: Avehicle7887The 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.
...

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 November 2024 at 5:20 am UTC
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