Upgraded Aya Neo Pro costs almost double the most expensive Steam Deck

Upgraded Aya Neo Pro costs almost duplicate the most valuable Steam Deck

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Aya Neo updated its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign with pricing and availability for its upgraded Aya Neo Pro handheld gaming PC, and it costs significantly more than the top Steam Deck manakin. Much specifically, the selling price is down at $1,215, with shipments going out in middle-September.

For anyone who uncomprehensible out on early Steam Deck reservations (or is other uninterested in Valve's computer hardware for whatever reason), the Aya Neo corpse one of the best handheld PC gaming alternatives. However, there is a sizable cost difference, specially for the Pro model.

What you get when splurging on the Aya Modern Pro is a Ryzen 7 4800U, an 8-core/16-thread APU with a 1.8GHz base time, 4.2GHz max encouragement time, and 8MB of L3 cache. Like the custom Si deep down the Steamer Floor, it is founded on AMD's Zen 2 architecture. The regular Aya Neo ships with a Ryzen 5 4500U APU (6C/6T, 2.3GHz to 4GHZ, 8MB L3 memory cache).

It also comes with 1TB of built-in storage, whereas the base manakin (read: non-Pro) can be purchased with 512GB of memory board for $925 or 1TB for $1,015. Aya Modern plans to crack a 2TB variant of the Aya Neo Professional at or s point, but inside information on pricing and handiness hold not sooner or later been announced.

In comparing the Aya Neo Pro to the Steam Deck, the custom Zen 2 silicon inside Valve's hand-held sports four cores and ogdoad threads, so you get a meatier CPU with the Aya Neo Pro, and forked (or more) the storage. Connected the graphics side, all the same, the Steam Deck's RDNA 2 GPU is newer and much muscular than the embedded Vega artwork in the Aya Neo Pro.

Again, Aya Neo is offering two color choices: Dark Ace (black) and Loose Moon (white). In gain, at that place's also an Aya Neo Pro Retro Power with 1TB of store for $1,315. The hardware is the same, but aims for a "classic handheld color dodge, with light gray consistency, dark gray D-pad, purple face buttons, and olive green shoulder buttons," on with an included matching dock (the bobtail is sold one by one for the non-Retro models).

If you're interested, you can preorder the Aya Neo Pro from the Aya Store.

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