Acer Goes All Out With 3 Handhelds

[@Sumire9287]

Last gen hardware, 16gb of ram, 55Wh batterie and charging 1100 for it. These are going to fail incredibly

[@FrowningTaco]

599 in a couple of weeks I would guess.

[@ibelieveinjesusinmyspareti2861]

too little competition, the rog ally shouldn't have been 900 in the first place.

[@electricindigoball1244]

Honestly they should have delayed these and worked with Valve to ship these with SteamOS instead. SteamOS is a far better OS for handheld gaming PCs than Windows and it would also save them cost of a Windows license.

[@joeykeilholz925]

It's pretty enjoyable watching companies ship trash and adequately eat shit on it.

[@daveb0t82]

The new gen hardware is going to be $1k-ish I think. Those new AMD processors are expensive

[@graveyarddead753]

Wow. That 11 inch would have been top of my list if it had 32GB of RAM, a Z2 Extreme, and 80Whr battery. What a dissapointment.

[@LazCrazyTech]

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣 right now Lenovo legion Might announce something tomorrow or sometime this week which will be upgradable and at a way cheaper price

[@robertlawrence9000]

@@LazCrazyTech 🤞

[@MrOdaddy2011]

That's what she said

[@robertlawrence9000]

@MrOdaddy2011 11 inch with Extreme RAM 😲

[@acecgx955]

Exactly my same thoughts. Will wait to see what Lenovo announces tomorrow with the legion go 2

[@S-Penn]

Acer is delusional with those prices. DOA

[@Aaron-ui9tj]

DOA is exactly what I was going to say.

[@doordashtodaydoordashtoday]

@@Aaron-ui9tj Yikes I bet their dev team was trying to tell their heads this too. The fact I knew that and didnt even have one handheld yet speaks volumes

[@nathanhargenrader645]

Not just the price, the chipset, the battery the sizes. Every single choice is a mega failure

[@deluge6479]

Its good for us because by the summer it will drop down to $400

[@michaelshapovalov5083]

Acer, this pricing tier is outrageous for 16GB of RAM and 50w battery. The battery anxiety will be real for consumers of these products, especially with those screens.

[@joeykeilholz925]

2560x1600 handheld 😂

[@chriswright8074]

16gb of ram is fine

[@MrSupersonic2012]

​@chriswright8074 The problem is Vram. The reason why you want more than 16gb, so you can allocate enough to have 16gb of ram and not worry about having enough Vram

[@graveriser]

16GB is fine, you just use 6 Uma buffer... you don't need any more and won't get a benefit to using more. You are GPU limited before you run out of cram at 1440p. You are paying for OLED.

[@davidbelle07]

I think the cost of having Windows on these devices is driving the price up.

[@ultimategohan1551]

How on earth did acer manage to make the claw 8 ai+ look like great value lmao.

[@benhawk4214]

The msi claw is a pretty good value tbf. This is ridiculous though, I was hoping for a good alternative to the Onexplayer X1 but somehow it's worse in every aspect.

[@supbrotv]

Well, the MSI claw 8 is a decent value device on its own considering it performs better than most handhelds in the market. Once the price eventually goes down, it will be a great value device.

[@David-gs9vw]

😂😂😂😂

[@LeesChannel]

The pricing really is outrageous, 1100 is 4060+ laptop money. You can get a 4070 laptop for $1150. They are out of their minds.

[@ahouat7913]

Depends on where you live, 4060 where i live is still around 1.5~1.7k usd, depending on model. Rog g16 is like 1.9k usd...........

[@DrakonR]

​@@ahouat7913arguing the exception isn't an argument.

[@LeesChannel]

@ahouat7913 Well, I'm in the US, I assume if you live in a country where electronics are expensive that these Acer handhelds will correspondingly be more expensive as well.

[@ahouat7913]

@@LeesChannel pc handhelds are about the same to the US. The ally x is around 820usd. i wouldnt buy that acer though, paying such high prices last gen tech.

[@tomoprime217]

Wait till the strix halo laptops drop 😅

[@MM-ij6ld]

Those resolutions are waaaaaay to high for that GPU and RAM. Insane

[@Invid72]

These devices feel like they were designed a year ago and Acer sat on the designs for some reason. The prices are crazy, the batteries are tiny and the chips are a generation old with the Z2 Extremes getting announced today. These will not sell. At all.

[@aaroneldreth]

Agree the hardware specs are a bit dated. 7840 w/ the 780M iGPU is nice but... that's a two year old chip very similar to the Z1 Extreme. AMD just announced the Z2 Extreme processor with essentially an 890M iGPU. And that's not even mentioning the battery, especially when paired with the very high resolution screens. I think there are better options in the market today, but maybe if the price is low enough?

[@Invid72]

@@aaroneldreth The prices are the worst part of the device. For the price of the Acer 7" I can get an Ally X with a battery 1.5X the size (80 Wh vs. 50 Wh) and 1.5X the RAM (24GB vs 16GB) and more mature software. Why on earth would I choose the Acer? And that's at the Ally X's full price and it's been on sale recently...the Acer machines are DOA.

[@Professor.Strong.100]

​@@aaroneldrethI agree. At about the $600 to $700 price mark for the 11 inch it starts to look more attractive. At $1100 I'm skipping it. I'm eager to see what Xbox is going to do. There is talk of their next console release being like one of these.

[@MrSupersonic2012]

Yeah, with these prices these devices will not sell at all except to people who don't care about money. And even then. If this was like $400 to $600 at the most it might actually be able to sell some.

[@roderickrichardson4583]

Nobody will be mid game and go, "man... This sure FEELS like last year's tech." You're just entitled AF.

[@BacklogDrifter]

Thanks for pricing these so high Acer! Now when no one buys them they'll go on massive discounts where no one will buy them anyway. Ill buy that 11 inch one when its at $499.

[@frenchyfrenchsilver1331]

😂😂😂

[@martinhammerton8157]

Same thinking here

[@Patrick-y4d1z]

Lol, so many of these handhelds are doing this at the moment here in the UK. ROG Ally came out June 2023. By June 2024 they were half price. Same for the Legion Go, I've seen that at like £400-450 for the past year. MSI Claw 7 is like £350. These things drop in price so quickly and flood the second hand market.

[@BacklogDrifter]

@ oh yeah definitely but these will go like the first msi claw. No one bought them and they were half off in no time in my area. They decide to join the market starting with last gen stuff. Makes no sense.

[@KahlDragonborn]

I love the focus on handhelds, So happy to be a tech enthusist.

[@acecgx955]

I think Acer got the wrong memo thinking this was CES 2024. They are coming into 2025 with 2024 specs. GTFO with that price as well.

[@6igPP]

Used to pray for times like this. More and more handhelds popping out 😩🙌🏽

[@daveb0t82]

I love that they are trying an 11inch, not sure inwould buy it but i love seeing innovation in handhelds.

[@ChideraOkerenta]

This are no longer called handheld meanwhile call them tablet with controllers on them

[@johnwebsterification]

The reviews are going to be entertaining for sure.

[@Xavier-D88]

DOA: 16gb of ram, 55 Watt battery, Old iGPU and the pricing... Seems like these should have been release around the same time as the original Legion Go/ROG Ally.

[@EmergencyChannel]

$1100 is crazy, especially an Acer product which is usually a budget brand with lower build quality. They sell a lot of Nitro gaming laptops because they are cheap but they are known for cooking themselves.

[@isurvivedtheshakerheightss7922]

Wait till the next Christmas season it’ll be $600 prob lol

[@Patrick-y4d1z]

@@isurvivedtheshakerheightss7922 Even then it's not worth it, just put that money towards an alternative device with better specs.

[@bugbuster8598]

12:09 it's literally a keyboard/screen cover slot...

[@josephconstance8223]

looks good but 16gb ram would like to try the 11 with 32 gb ram

[@drewnewby]

Thanks for doing different day 1 content than the other channels!

[@williammclean3550]

What is the release date for the Handhelds? as I would love the 11 inch

[@renegade7565]

Acer nitros usually have a good price to performance ratio, so its surprising to see this pricing. The 11 inch one looks really interesting because most of the time I use my steam deck docked or plugged into an external monitor while traveling. Having a larger inbuilt screen makes sense. I think these will start to adapt and become better value for money as they make more of these.

[@moretoknowshow]

The Nitro Blaze 11 actually caught my eye, as I have vision issues. As long as I can play Helldivers 2/Marvel Rivals on it smoothly, im in..

[@MrReddragongamingHD]

I do love the concept of a large handheld with detachable controllers that you can use as a tablet, quickly connect a keyboard to the pogo pins to change it into a laptop for work/uni, and dock it as a main PC. The high prices of these handhelds would be more justifiable if it could be an all-in-one device for handheld/TV/PC (monitor + mouse & keyboard) gaming, with the extra utility of being a tablet for watching videos and running Windows 11 with a keyboard attached with the larger screen and USB A + C ports would make this very viable as a laptop. The ergonomics definitely need to be addressed though. Personally, although it would look very funky I think going for something more akin to the PlayStation Portal (with the tablet being able to be removed) would make this far more comfortable and ergonomic. For the price, this absolutely needs 32GB of RAM, a Z2 Extreme, and an 80Whr battery. Hopefully the next iteration can address these issues.

[@Mr3-j4m]

780m igpu ? That's already old igpu. It's in original Rog Ally & other handheld several years ago. Latest igpu is 890m. Why not using 890m igpu ?

[@abdulbasit4660]

55Wh battery? Why would ppl downgrade from the ally x

[@helbertgascon]

Look around the handheld community. Most people use these hardware plugged in. These guys screw up the target audience of hardware makers 😒

[@lilbenate660]

The ally x is built like shit. They have so much issues with the hardware itself people and my self included returned it I bought it and my trigger broke. I returned it for a 1tb legion go and its built better feels better and has no issues with anything

[@helbertgascon]

@@lilbenate660 dude... The speaker of the Legion Go is an issue in itself. Saying it doesn't have issues means you're deaf.

[@l0rdpelvis]

Especially on the 11. Like what? Gotta be a ton of wasted space in that chassis.

[@KyleRuggles]

16 gigs of ram? NOT enough these days when it's shared with the GPU.

[@renoputra5219]

Yep, 16GB ram DoA

[@Russiangamerpro2021]

16 GB it should be plenty, but it’s funny if you say it’s not enough so I had to laugh😂😂😂😂

[@The44sasquatch]

@@Russiangamerpro2021 It would be plenty if it wasn't being shared as vram, but with it being shared, you really need at least 24 if not 32

[@Russiangamerpro2021]

16 GB of RAM it should be plenty just for budget lineups like a gaming laptop has 16 GB of RAM if they put more RAM it’s gonna increase the price so I’m not gonna buy it. The only thing they could do is to upgrade have an option to upgrade it. Maybe they’re gonna do that we’ll see.

[@The44sasquatch]

@@Russiangamerpro2021 a budget gaming laptop isn't sharing that 16gb of ram with the GPU. Those laptops have dedicated vram for the GPU. These handhelds don't have a discrete GPU and share system ram with the CPU. So a game that needs 8gb of vram and 16gb of system ram won't run on a handheld with only 16gb of ram.

[@kuyache2]

These Acer handhelds will be on budget bins at arrival due to that 16gb ram, lack of oculink and slightly older SOC compared to competition that already have Ryzen 9 AI 370 HX. Also those batteries are anemic compared to 80watthour that is now becoming the standard on many handheld PC's. When the Ryzen AI Max arrives nobody will look at these anymore...

[@USBEN.]

DAMN BOAH HE BIG!

[@rolout2233]

i like steam deck = they have 2 versions - lcd and oled. both of them are the same almost in terms of cpu, gpu. i have lcd and i am happy with it. it is comfortable to hold, it runs games . what more do i need from handheld?

[@GunzyHD]

Really loving the palm rest here. Steam Deck got that perfect

[@Denver_tld]

it kind of feels weird he sounds like he's at gun point from acer not to laugh at the battery sizing, yet he's been given no info about some of the buttons or wether the cam has windows hello sign in and what the pogo pins do on the bottom of the big handheld.

[@groveht17]

Man I’ll miss Gordon this CES….

[@DemonAngelX360]

What's the operating system?

[@MysticNessly]

I like to see more players enter the handheld space, but I don't see a compelling reson to choose this over Legion Go, when Legion Go has more features (remmovable controllers that are smaller, 5 programmable buttons + scroll wheel + touchpad!) for much cheaper price. Love the (1) size of the 11" and 8.8" models (2) remmovable controllers on the 11" model (3) weight of the 8.8" model (about 150g < legion go). Wish they all had 4 buttons though! For such a premium price and not having OLED screens, at least they could have more than 2 programmable buttons.

[@btconnergaming]

Wild to me that they're releasing handhelds with 16gb of shared ram in 2025. MSI claw 8 and the new legions are all gonna have 32gb, and I'm expecting the same from Asus. If they're gonna do this the price point needs to be like $500 to $600 TOPS.

[@dfilm]

The 11 looks awesome

[@AdmiralBison]

Good to have more options in the "ultra" 10"+ premium handheld category. Acer should bump up the specs to more competitive levels. Don't worry so much about price. EVERYTHING is going up in price this year anyway.

[@AdmiralBison]

Hopefully all highend handheld PCs will support full double-sided 8TB SSDs. Should allow users to upgrade the SSD to 8TBs down the road considering they're investing a lot of money into handheld PCs to last a few years.

[@nowak93]

I want 8.8 oled and 80whr battery

[@Nobody-w8n4s]

Can’t wait til they’re on crazy sale.

[@Jim-g3q]

Native landscape screens or no...?

[@samsquanch1382]

Why do these companies release these handhelds at 16gb? There’s a huge complaint about that unless you’re looking for older games. Also if you’re going to introduce a 11inch handheld you might as well add in a bigger battery. YES it’ll add weight but it’s already heavy as it is so just toss it on. I also feel like they missed out on adding 4 back buttons like the steam deck has which would’ve been icing on the cake

[@catalystzer0344]

Yeah no fucking way at those prices.

[@mrwoodcat]

I'm waiting for him to talk about the detachable controller all the way to the video but he only talked it for like 5 sec.. 🙂

[@docbrody]

Detachable controllers are just a pain in the ass.

[@nolimityouth7238]

Great to see more competition in the space. Steam deck Oled is perfect for my needs BUT it just dosen't have the juice to play demanding newer games. I mainly use it to play older games.

[@TheMainMan903]

Whatever higher-ups decided that THESE were something to announce at CES2025 needs to really get fired. The prices, design, & hardware is BEHIND the competition. I feel like they had these ready last year but someone stopped them from being released. These will be the biggest disappointment of 2025. RIP.

[@docbrody]

Last gen tablet with some controllers snapped on the side.

[@theSUBVERSIVE]

Why not 7, 9 and 11??

[@Marbeary]

They should have gone all out in spec in the 11inch as a halo product for their handheld. The 11 is handicap by the battery power with that odd choice of specs.

[@Russiangamerpro2021]

Hey, because this device, if it has a poured that shows USB 4 port definitely you can connect external graphic card that has 40 gigs. It’s plenty amount of bandwidth that gives you plenty of enough performance. Basically you can run a tens of games. It just depends some intensive games that will not run really well with the EGPU some will run quite fine. That’s why I just want to get an external graphic card that it’s not an overkill and it’s not a card that it’s too expensive. I know Intel arc it’s a good car because it’s gonna be a budget lineup, but they need to fix our drivers to make it perform quite stable with thunderbolt connectionwith 40 gigs.

[@XboxAccess-tz3cp]

If the 11 inch was 699 that would have been an eye opener just because of the size, BUUUUUUUUUUT!!!!!😮

[@MrKKmusic]

How long before a Steam OS version :-)

[@itsmilan4069]

Acer is smoking some good sh!t if they think these will sell in 2025 with that specs and price 😂

[@warrenbadze]

I'm my opinion I think handhelds should be like a maximum of 8 inches .. anything larger than than we are creaping into surface book tablet territory .. and at that size might as well give me a pen

[@carlobarley1985]

i heard kawhi leonard is enjoying the form factor of this

[@MaR_LUCKY_DIP]

Wow 11''😮😮😮 my LEGION GO just 8.8'' and is heavy😮😮😮 Ps. What is price you think 11"???

[@mattwillis2]

He says $1100 at 4:55

[@MaR_LUCKY_DIP]

@mattwillis2 so 999pounds ....🤯

[@ThaexakaMavro]

The first one with LPCAMM2 will get my money

[@Jim-g3q]

Acer?? Whoa.. Any competition is good news for us, though!

[@robertlawrence9000]

Welp. The small battery is what's going to kill the sales of these. That immediately makes me look elsewhere. That Steam Deck control layout is much better too.

[@AdmiralBison]

11 inch model ought to just copy the Steam Deck controller layout and feature standards. 4 x M buttons at the back 2 x Trackpads. ** 8 x N nubs top of the controller ought to be standard = 1~8 keyboard number keys.

[@catchthisfire]

i kinda want the 11" version just as a meme

[@steveybiggunzgaming8118]

Acer is going crazy here these are last gen specs in a nice fancy frame wasted opportunity they should have got these out a year ago

[@shannjunior]

James Gunn reviewing window handhelds before GTA6 is wild

[@HuntaKiller91]

I hope theres a strix halo variant

[@antwanowens4013]

The 11 inch should have a 80/90 watt battery thats one of the mistakes asus made with the OG ally and the only way they could remain relevant was to provide the rog x and that is and should be tha standard on any handheld 80 watt are more

[@WIImotionmasher]

How come nobody is putting a big track -pad on it like Valve did. I want that trackpad for certain PC games

[@shirotonbo6315]

Is it oled

[@davidlee707]

Large screen 55Wh 😢 1.100 to high ?

[@gregorywilson2124]

I heard these are rebranded handhelds

[@biggiebutters2251]

The biggest issue I have with my Legion Go is the battery! These are going to be DOA!

[@BowtieJDP]

no trackpads on this massive device?

[@RobertDunhill-m5i]

Waiting for the new. Ally me. Love the original best pc I've owned on a long time. I miss the power of my big rigs but now im in sheltered housing and my room is timy and risk of theft from house mates has made me love these smaller devices. The steam deck is rhe only othee handheld im hoping shakes the market again.

[@briansant7905]

For me, a gaming tablet is another division

[@makspain81]

DOA with 55wh for 11 & 8 inch

[@dbsasuke]

With each new comp somehow Ally X looks better and better. That battery on Acer is unacceptable now

[@spiritualdrip1869]

That’s a very THICC gaming handheld pc ☺️

[@ahmedp8009]

My God! It is massive! But for $800-1100, they should've come with AMD's latest Z2 APUs.

[@86lanzo]

Who remembers when Alienware had their handheld gaming PC prototype that's looks almost exactly like these..10 years ago That they never released.. Wonder how they're feeling now..if they pulled the trigger on it they could be leading the market.

[@sanwell4409]

As the rog ally white is discontinued,i thing the blaze 7 is good for people want "cheap" capable handheld

[@Nexii801]

7840HS in 2025 is WILD

[@justswitched8841]

1100 for last gen hardware? It will be DOA

[@X862go]

POGO pins is nice for a keyboard.

[@RyujinHayabusa]

When window handheld becoming more like a tablet with built in controller, I prefer a medium size screen to be honest, between 6-8 is good enough for me, plus OLED, would be better, I don't think this will be comfortable to hold for a very long time

[@ThomasTheTankEngine22]

That 11 in is such a terrible deal 😂. The only plus it has over the other ones is that it's a bigger size

[@Russiangamerpro2021]

Definitely will fit really well for my kickstand because my kickstand it’s meant for my tablet, but it does fit really well on my Lenovo Legion go so that means this handheld should be better than the Lenovo Legion go because it’s more portable and maybe it should be a little bit more lighter Without taking the controllers off because Lenovo controllers you can just take it off and replace it. I don’t like removable controls just weird.

[@acek1605]

Okay now we're cooking 😊

[@HonzaPi]

They completely miss the mark and the prices for almost 2 years old hardware cmon. Thanks to this the MSI Claw 8+ looks like a steal 😂.

[@Sycopup]

seems like a small upgrade from OG ROG Z1X, so im not worried

[@TheBagManGamer]

I was excited for the 7 inch one because it looks more portable than ASUS's ROG Ally X. But $800?? That's the same price as the Ally X but with much less features. Disappointing.

[@WeAreMovieMakers]

The Blaze 7 was a rebrand of another company's handheld PC.

[@chalostraps]

This company is weird, I haven’t gotten a single acer product since the 2000’s when it actually made sense. The ally X is still the best for your buck now a days. Even a Z1E is sufficient nowadays and upgrade down the line. Even MSI handhelds make no sense, nothing adds up, the price, the specs, the buttons. These companies are putting themselves out of business in the handheld market. They’re not even asking what the majority of consumers want, they will never be successful if they continue to do their own thing. That’s why the Ally X is the best because they listened to the feedback of the consumer. Even steam listens and that’s why it still sits on top.

[@OweEyeSea]

Extrapolating from those price points - about $100 per inch of screen size - they should have a 2 inch version for $200.

[@banyanyas839]

Acer jumps into the water because their arc nemesis is also going all out on their handhelds

[@Ryuujin1078]

… seems like this reviewer is the only person that’s optimistic about these products

[@johnandrewliem]

11 inch is absurd.... but back in the 2010s 6 inch smartphones are also absurd so... we'll see😂

[@TVCHLORD]

acer releases last years handheld too late

[@NexGen-3D]

Shame they have booked them with insufficient battery capacity, if the 11" has a rugged tablet style case and magnetic keyboard, then this would be awesome, as it would cover you as a Tablet/Laptop and a game console, if they had of gone with a duel hot-swappable battery setup, it would have been a show stopper.

[@lindseyhunt1090garageb]

11 inch screen!!!!! but ally performance ? seems odd. with an 11 inch screen that size of a unit you should be able to cram some good performance in there. seems like an odd choice

[@Tweek9690]

and the moment i herd thos outrageous prices i left the video these companies are out to lunch when i comes to pricing wtf

[@Russiangamerpro2021]

Good thing it’s like the Lenovo Legion go with 144 Hz and 144 FPS because you don’t need your hardware system to push more than amount of FPS because it’s gonna overheat because if you wanna push it to 165 SPS the hardware will push more heat to push only 144 FPS it should keep it balanced with overheating Because having more frames more heat so 144 FPS plenty even if I have a EGPU set up with USB 4 I can definitely reach it to 1440 P with medium settings with DLSS I should probably keep it between two 120 frames or two 130 frames. I hope that device should reach it only 144 FPS that should be fine.