Antec’s new Home windows gaming handheld, the Core HS, is now that can be purchased, and the corporate is coming in sturdy with a really low beginning value for its AMD Ryzen 7 7840U-powered unit. With its intriguing slide-up display screen design – that reveals a keyboard beneath – the Antec Core HS presents a unique bodily design to many of the greater gamers.
Whereas an fascinating design that looks like it might have potential to carve out a spot on our greatest handheld gaming PC information, the Antec Core HS is in actual fact only a rebranded model of an present handheld. The Ayaneo Slide is a China-only handheld, although, so that is the primary time a model of the gadget has been extra extensively accessible.
Regardless of its low value, this can be a handheld that not solely boasts a doubtlessly game-changing design with its built-in keyboard but additionally some spectacular different specs. Its display screen is a 6-inch, 1080, IPS panel with as much as 400nits brightness and 85% DCI-P3 colour area protection.
That AMD processor additionally packs in eight CPU cores with a 12 CU GPU. That is connected to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and also you get 512GB of storage with a 2280 format M.2 SSD slot for increasing storage. These are broadly the identical specs as this gadget’s important Home windows rivals, the Asus ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go, however all three gadgets have much more energy than the Steam Deck OLED, which is the one a kind of three that could be a related value to this unit (although a brand new Asus ROG Ally deal sees the non-X model at the moment promoting for a similar $499).
There’s additionally a 32GB variant of the Antec Core HS with 1TB of storage, which is being offered at launch with a bundle of extras. These include a carry case, a tempered glass display screen protector, “efficiency” thumbsticks, and a docking station. Antec doesn’t clarify the latter two however the thumbsticks seem to simply be different thumbstick caps whereas the dock holds the gadget at a handy angle, costs it via a USB-C connector, and offers microSD and SD enlargement slots. This extra capacious unit with its additional prices $699 at launch.
Each fashions can be found in a selection of black or white with the items wanting fairly fetching. The design of this handheld has us actually intrigued however till we actually get to have an intensive play with it and check out that keyboard, we are able to’t say for sure how effectively it’ll work. Notably, the Core HS doesn’t embody trackpads which may restrict its usability.
For extra on what’s at the moment our favourite Home windows gaming handheld, take a look at our Asus ROG Ally X evaluation, which particulars why it’s the brand new gold customary.
