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Lenovo has yet released the latest and champion exemplary of the Legion Go S. It comes with SteamOS pre-installed, positive the almighty AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, on with a whopping 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. That benignant of powerfulness doesn’t travel inexpensive (it’s $829.99 exclusively astatine Best Buy), but it’s surely a slayer handheld gaming PC. It’s truthful bully that it became our caller prime for the champion handheld gaming PC.
Legion Go S 8" 120Hz Gaming Handheld - AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme - SteamOS - 32GB with 1TB SSD
Basically, unless you perfectly request Windows 11 oregon the Steam Deck’s trackpads to play the games you privation to play, this is the handheld gaming PC instrumentality to get close now. From our 9/10 Legion Go S (Z1 Extreme, SteamOS) review:
“By swapping to SteamOS from Windows and upgrading to the Z1 Extreme chip, the Lenovo Legion Go S has go 1 of the champion handhelds retired there, and highlights conscionable however overmuch enactment Microsoft has starring up to its handheld release.”
There are galore models of the Lenovo Legion Go S retired there, truthful you privation to marque definite you’re getting the close one. Earlier this year, Lenovo released 1 with Windows 11 and a comparatively under-powered Z2 Go chip. Then it released a SteamOS exemplary that besides ran connected the Z2 Go chip. This latest exemplary with SteamOS and the Z1 Extreme spot is the 1 that handily beats the Steam Deck successful presumption of specs – meaning it tin tally a clump of newer games that are retired of scope of the Steam Deck, similar Doom: The Dark Ages.
If you privation to clasp disconnected connected picking this up, that’s understandable, too. We’re successful thing of a aureate epoch for handheld gaming PCs. Microsoft and ASUS program to merchandise the Xbox ROG Ally and the Z2 Extreme-powered Xbox ROG Ally X aboriginal this year, implicit with a caller mentation of Windows 11 that’s much optimized for handheld gaming devices.
Additional devices powered by the Z2 Extreme spot volition beryllium coming retired yet arsenic well. But if you privation a highly businesslike SteamOS-powered instrumentality that’s disposable now, this Legion Go S with a Z1 Extreme spot is the 1 to get. It’s a bully clip to beryllium a handheld PC gamer.
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Jun 20, 2025 6:53 pm
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