Antec’s new sliding-screen Steam Deck rival has a shockingly low price

Antec’s new Home windows gaming handheld, the Core HS, is now available for purchase, and the corporate is coming in robust with a really low beginning worth for its AMD Ryzen 7 7840U-powered unit. With its intriguing slide-up display design – that reveals a keyboard beneath – the Antec Core HS gives 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 current handheld. The Ayaneo Slide is a China-only handheld, although, so that is the primary time a model of the machine has been extra extensively out there.

Regardless of its low worth, this can be a handheld that not solely boasts a probably game-changing design with its built-in keyboard but in addition some spectacular different specs. Its display is a 6-inch, 1080, IPS panel with as much as 400nits brightness and 85% DCI-P3 shade house 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 machine’s predominant Home windows rivals, the Asus ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go, however all three units have much more energy than the Steam Deck OLED, which is the one a kind of three that may be a related worth 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 bought at launch with a bundle of extras. These encompass a carry case, a tempered glass display protector, “efficiency” thumbsticks, and a docking station. Antec doesn’t clarify the latter two however the thumbsticks seem to only be different thumbstick caps whereas the dock holds the machine at a handy angle, expenses it by way of a USB-C connector, and supplies microSD and SD enlargement slots. This extra capacious unit with its additional prices $699 at launch.

Each fashions can be found in a alternative of black or white with the items trying 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 properly it can work. Notably, the Core HS doesn’t embody trackpads which might restrict its usability.

For extra on what’s at the moment our favourite Home windows gaming handheld, try our Asus ROG Ally X assessment, which particulars why it’s the brand new gold commonplace.