The latest ROG XG Mobile can be outfitted with up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, which costs $2,199. Now, that’s a little too steep for me; however, the RTX 5070 Ti model comes

PRE-ORDER NOW: The Lenovo Legion Go S, available to pre-order for $729.99 from Best Buy, offers powerful specs like the AMD Ryzen Z2 Go processor, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. Releasing Feb. 14, it packs more features at a lower price than many competitors, including the ASUS ROG Ally X.

Part of what makes this a good deal is that it costs exactly the same amount as Asus’ ROG Ally variant that has the slower Z1 CPU. The Z1 Extreme amounts to faster frames per second (FPS) across all games,

Out of the box your ROG Ally has three Asus-set performance profiles, aka Operating Modes: Silent, Performance and Turbo. You also have two secondary options: Windows, which defaults to whatever power settings you've set in Windows 11, and Manual, which lets you set custom performance settings.