MSI Claw - 2 Month Later

[@mikilysPOL]

At this point Claw with 135H cost 405$… There is no need for 155H, even you shouldn't buy it because 2 P-cores take power from iGPU. Also you can turn off 2 low power E-cores, that's give you more power for iGPU. At this point there is no competition in this price in efficiency and gaming power on the market.

[@RomanDoes]

Valid point!

[@kabosumamadoge1818]

It's currently on sale here in my country. I just bought the 5 yesterday for $390. At this price, I think i can live with rhe drawbacks

[@RomanDoes]

@kabosumamadoge1818 it's an awesome price, 100% makes it justifiable

[@mcslender2965]

Which country is that? Is it PH? In mine the Ally is the cheapest, then Claw and Legion Go are about very close in price, maybe less than 50 USD different

[@RomanDoes]

@@mcslender2965 yep, same with me

[@alanriley1972]

I've got one and I love it, it ain't perfect but what pc handheld is. I got the ultra 7 for £450 brand new. I own the steam deck oled and lenovo legion go and I'm using the claw more at the moment. It outperforms the legion go with some AAA games. And the speakers are incredible,the best I've ever heard, amazing bass. And it's also an emulation beast. It's definitely worth buying if you can get it cheap.

[@clem9808]

Still enjoying the device so far. Cheapest handheld Pc in my country, and does the job done. As long as I don't play latest games with it , I'm all good. 😊

[@RomanDoes]

where are you from?

[@OluebubechukwuNri]

@@clem9808 how much you pay

[@Chris.Nolan.]

Where are you from?

[@RomanDoes]

@Chris.Nolan. he's probably from one of the east Asian countries. We had people in comments saying they can get Claw for $300 over there

[@Chris.Nolan.]

@@RomanDoes I think the one who says $300 is miscalculation, even the MSI Claw Ultra 5 it's not that cheap

[@Bert439]

LCD Deck with 10 Watts TDP is quite the trooper in most games. Sadly Intel is so power hungry that even with a 13whr larger battery the LCD Deck is more efficient.

[@edwardlashley3572]

Before you buy this for 700 the Antec Core HS is selling for 500 dollars. & this is the North American rebrand of the Aya Neo slide. if you bought that & if you ran the lossless scaling app, every single pc game that you own or any game you downloaded from gamepass would run at 120 fps or more. None of these devices offer any substantive battery life, except the steam deck which under powered like a pc Nintendo switch & the Alley X which costs 800 dollars.

[@RomanDoes]

@edwardlashley3572 thanks for the tip! Claw will see steep price cuts too for black Friday if anyone still wants to try their luck with it.

[@Blindusek]

What does ssd performance have to do with download speed? Do a ssd speed test - winsat at least. The rest i agree and good video 🙂

[@RomanDoes]

good point about SSD speed test, haven't done that. Yet, from pure observation its suuuuper slow.

[@torqq69]

I hope you'll be on the lookout for the new Claw, im interested (but ofc its gonna be expensive so it might be not wise to buy it just to test it)

[@RomanDoes]

I don't think it will be more expensive than the current generation. They definitely got the lesson and I'm glad MSI admits it publicly. I'm really curious about that Claw 8 they had on display

[@torqq69]

@@RomanDoes if what Intel claims is true, then we about to see a redemption arc. Also I think Intel is working on a frame gen solution (to not to be left out of the party) for Xess which could be huge.

[@joshwimberly103]

Rog has my money i think hands down best performance to price in my brain

[@RomanDoes]

@@joshwimberly103 Ally X is definitely in the lead today, but what will next Legion Go look like? 🤔

[@joshwimberly103]

@@RomanDoes your not wrong im excited to see what the future holds in the world of handhelds

[@mariotomenbang2955]

It is not bad. I got my kid one for her bday. I love how the buttons are comfortable specially the joy sticks for playing mortal kombat and street fighter. It works great on rcps3 emulator for ps3. I tested it out on many games it works perfectly. We are not a gamer only play online games. I heard so many people downing this handheld but i love the handheld itself. I might buy one to switch off playing from my legion go to msi claw. It does not beat my legion go , onexplayer 2 pro and my rog ally x. Those are my top handheld so far.

[@RomanDoes]

@mariotomenbang2955 I always wonder why people buy these expensive consoles just to play emulators on them... there are cheaper options for that. The point of these handhelds is to give you an ability to play latest titles on go.

[@graelstream2353]

I was hoping to get this, good thing I waited. I wanted msi to be good for playing the gacha games I can't play on the deck oled. Sadly they didn't improve fast enough. Nice video btw keep it up!

[@alexygo4243]

If you could get one for $450 would you? The Core 5 135H is around that price in my country and I am not sure if I should buy it or not. I haven't had a portable gaming device yet so some suggestions would come a long way!

[@RomanDoes]

I guess the main question is - do you need a portable gaming windows device? If you think it can substitute a laptop - no it can't. Do you commute a lot? Then will the battery time work for you? It's really these questions you need to answer first before buying one of these toys.

[@alexygo4243]

@@RomanDoes I want one to just play while lying down in bed lol 😂

[@RomanDoes]

@alexygo4243 bad for your neck, this is how I got neck hernia

[@aforashish7]

When AMD z2 is coming

[@RomanDoes]

On MSI Claw? Never, Intel is sponsoring them

[@mohandasghandi3441]

Is it better than ally with z1 extreme?

[@RomanDoes]

@mohandasghandi3441 depends on what you need, form factor - Ally is better, battery life - Claw is a bit better, but all depends on a settings etc.

[@picanha694]

Ally X is 800usd and this one is 400usd 😂

[@RomanDoes]

@@picanha694 depends on where you live, 600-700usd here

[@BillyLivingstone-j9f]

Lora Bridge

[@RomanDoes]

@@BillyLivingstone-j9f what has LoRa got to do with it?

[@alexatwood6205]

The MSI Claw is the ugly brother of the Ally and this device's main downfall is having a intel chip in it, supposedly the new claw is supposed to better then AMD's Z1 extreme but I'm interested to see how the better performance will affect battery life. I think the Ally X and the Steam Deck OLED have the most optimal battery life for these gaming handhelds, obviously more is better but battery technology has to more forward first. Ally X seems to be the best windows handheld but needs to come down in price tbh.

[@RomanDoes]

Ally X will drop for sure closer to November especially if Lenovo puts out new Legion Go. In regards to the Claw, the who concept was Intel's venture into portables. MSI just took the money and built it, so Claw will not see AMD anytime soon unless Intel stops sponsoring MSI

[@AI-Creations-LLC]

I don't like windows. Id probably put chimera os on it.

[@RomanDoes]

I would buy steamdeck in this case. Chimera has a limited games library and you cant play online games that use Anti-Cheat.

[@hawk458]

Thanks for your vídeo

[@RomanDoes]

Thanks for watching!

[@deathetech3070]

what does the SSD have to do with the wifi speeds lol...

[@RomanDoes]

Like not being able to write data fast enough for starters or do you want to say the wifi7 ready device is not able to download faster that 50mb per sec over a 3GBPS wifi 6 network?

[@deathetech3070]

@@RomanDoes That sounds like a flaw in your testing or you're transferring from a device that's limited to 100MB local transfer speeds. I have no problem maximizing local transfer speed of files over WiFi 6E and through a gigabit networking capable dock

[@RomanDoes]

@@deathetech3070 you saying I don't know my own network configuration?

[@deathetech3070]

@@RomanDoes Clearly

[@RomanDoes]

@deathetech3070 and of course you know better, right?

[@ckbvincent]

Luckily i cancelled the purchase order lol

[@RomanDoes]

@@ckbvincent good timing!