ASUS ROG Ally for $699

Asus unveiled the ROG Ally, a cutting-edge portable gaming handheld that redefines portable gaming !
The ASUS ROG Ally is an alternative to Valve's Steam Deck.The new Asus hand-gaming mashine do not come with Steam OS or even Linux but rather Windows 11 Home -- and coming complete with a three month subscription to Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass.
The ROG Ally is powered by the new AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor that is Zen 4 based with 8 cores / 16 threads while featuring an RDNA3 integrated GPU. The APU power is between 9 and 30 Watts. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme is much more capable than what is shipped by last year's Steam Deck.

Groundbreaking performance 8.6 TeraFLOPS of graphics performance, these chips are built on the 4 nanometer Zen 4 architecture. Featuring the latest RDNA 3 graphics engine as well as full support for AMD's incredible upscaling technologies like Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) and FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), the Z1 series delivers incredible performance and the best power efficiency available in a handheld or console today. The top-end Ryzen Z1 Extreme rivals the graphics power of modern living room consoles, providing that coveted 60 frame per second level of AAA performance that's been missing in handhelds for so long.

Interesting hardware but with a poor choice of OS. Nevertheless it should be possible to load Linux on it albeit we'll see if there are any power management / input quirks as the most likely initial frustrations there. More details on the ROG Ally at rog.asus.com.