Nintendo DS games can be awkward to play on a conventional retro handheld. You can stack two virtual screens on one display, shrink them until neither is especially comfortable to see, or devote most of the panel to one screen and swap views with a button. Those workarounds function, but they remain compromises for games […]
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Windows gaming handhelds have a portability problem. More performance usually requires more cooling, more battery capacity, and enough physical space for controls that don’t feel squeezed together. Eventually, the handheld you bought because it travels easily can start feeling like another substantial piece of hardware to carry. The Acer Predator Atlas 7 tries to find
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OneXPlayer just opened pre-orders for the OneXPlayer 3, and it’s the first 3-in-1 handheld to ship with Intel’s Arc G3 Extreme chip. Pricing starts at $1,399 on Indiegogo, with an 8.8-inch 144Hz OLED screen and an 85Wh battery leading the spec sheet. That combination puts it in direct range of the Legion Go 2 and
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If you want the most powerful Windows gaming handheld you can buy right now, the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ CG3EM is the one to get. It’s MSI’s new flagship, and it’s the first handheld built around Intel’s custom Arc G3 Extreme processor, which makes it a genuine step up from anything running last year’s
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ASUS Republic of Gamers is 20 years old, and it’s celebrating the way you’d expect: with a limited-edition handheld that’s louder, denser, and more ambitious than the one it replaces. The ROG Xbox Ally X20 Bundle was announced on June 1, 2026 from Taipei, and it’s the first Xbox Ally with an OLED display, a
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There’s a moment that hits when you realize you don’t need your gaming desk anymore. You’re sprawled on the couch, your full Steam library running on a screen the size of a paperback, the game you’d usually only touch at your tower hitting settings you’d be smug about on a desktop. That used to be
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Mobile gadget enthusiasts can’t visit their favorite gadget news sites without being bombarded with news about the latest netbooks. Whether you want to refer to this category of extremely portable and affordable laptops as subnotebooks, ultraportables, UMPCs, MIDs or netbooks, is entirely up to you. What I call them is a whole lot of fun and convenience in a small package. The first netbook to capture our interest was the ASUS Eee PC, then it was the HP Mini-Note. Now it’s the MSI Wind. Let’s see if it’s worthy enough for a spot in your gear bag…
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Last year, Asus rocked the UMPC world with their announcement of a small, ultra-portable laptop – for only $200. Several
revisions, image leaks, speculative reports, and price increases later, the eeePC line was officially released – with
$200 added to price tag and 512MB RAM pulled from the default specs. I’ve had the flagship 701 model with 4GB of
solid-state disk space and a 0.3MP (300,000 pixel) webcam. Other model options include the 2G ($300) and 4G ($350)
Surfs with 2GB and 4GB SSD and no webcam, as well as the 8GB SSD/1GB RAM 8G at $500.
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In October of 1993, I bought what was then my ideal computer. It fit in my pocket, had a full QWERTY keyboard with dedicated numeric keypad, had lots of built-in apps, ran all my DOS programs with ease, had a gorgeous monochrome LCD screen and ran for 20 hours on two AA batteries. It was the HP 200LX. For years I used this machine for PIM storage, keeping grades for my students, writing a diary and keeping my important text documents on hand for easy reference. I moved to a new Windows-based grading program a year and a half ago, but I had used my 200LX for all that time. It still sits in my gadget cabinet, one gadget that will never see the light of Ebay.
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Ultra portable PCs (uPC) seem to be really hot right now. With
Microsoft’s Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) / Origami devices being announced here there and everywhere, it looks like this product category has the potential to become as popular as PDAs were a few years ago.
Maybe… Exactly one year ago I reviewed the
Sony Vaio VGN-U71P ultra portable Windows XP PC. Despite a few minor complaints, that little guy made a very good travel companion. To this day I kick myself for deciding to get rid of it… Especially now that I don’t have even one Windows PC in the house any longer. Yes, Mac person here.
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Last summer I had the opportunity to review a very small Windows XP computer from Sony. The Vaio VGN-U71P made a good travel companion, but wasn’t perfect due to the fact that you had to also pack a folding keyboard, AC adapter brick and docking station with you if you wanted access to all its
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I’ve always been a huge fan of very small computers and have had several such devices throughout the years. A few notable ones come to mind… Remember the REX PC Companion? It was a PDA in a PCMCIA card form factor. What about the hard to find IBM PC110 palmtop computer? Then there was the Toshiba Libretto.
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Sharp HPC Pro with built in camera.
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