I believe this is an all time low. Costs less than half compared to the Ally X. I ordered one :)
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even if its au stock you'd say the same thing
its going back to asus au brains trust at homebush lol
but i dont understand why people keep comparing ASUS Australia to Murica, things are different here
ACCC exists
Have you ever tried to contest anything? I used to think like this but as soon as you push back all those government agencies seem to tell you they can't help and its a civil matter which means going through a tribunal and learning how that whole process goes except they have the advantage of knowing how to play the system because they have done it before a bunch of times, they also have legal help on retainer vs you trying to do it all by yourself because you don't want to spend more than whatever product you are trying to get fixed to get a resolution.
I'm not bitter or anything, but a lot of these Australian consumer rights will quickly evaporate as soon as you test them. I'm not saying they aren't useful sometimes but only if the business wants to play ball.
Yeah just got mine fixed via JB/Asus no problem
I've had no issues with Asus Australia warranties at all. This includes replacing the Flow X13 battery, fixing the ROG XG Mobile connector that I borked immediately, replacing my Flow X13 motherboard that I fried when I disconnected the battery. All at no extra cost within warranty period. They're 3/3 in my books. Australian Consumer Law isn't anything to scoff at.
But you are buying from Amazon US, but i guess you can deal with Amazon AU for support if you choose too.
I believe Asus AU would cover 1 year on it as I have a Zephyrus G14 from eBay Korea that's under warranty for a year. But yes completely agree that Amazon US is a hassle to deal with.
That is super relieving to hear!
Before Black Friday 2024, I plan to have my microSD fixed and maybe the joysticks by then.
Killer price. Wish I waited for this deal
Same.
Jumped on the boat for Steamdeck OLED a while ago.
is this much better?
Good deal. Cheaper than used on eBay.
Put Bazzite on it and the experience is just as good as a Steam Deck except battery life.
Not a big dead since you already have a INIU 65w power bank.
Super cheap. I sold my second hand one for 700
when did you sell yours?
Late april
Waiting for sub 500…
Is this equal to a ps5, gaming power and available games etc?
Nope. Between a PS4 and PS4 Pro but with access to some modern games not available on PS4. Tens of thousands of games. PC and emulation.
Games wise this can play way more than a PS5 can. Basically any x86 compatible Windows game will run so that's a game catalogue from the 90's all the way till today. As for power, this is worse performance than a PS5, but you're still going to get a decent experience. But this has a design fault with the SD Card (poor quality component choice and possibly heat related issue due to being near the exhaust, ASUS says the fault was related to component choice) and battery life is really poor compared to the Steam Deck OLED or a Nintendo Switch. That being said, if you play some light titles on the 5 Watt profile, something like Shovel Knight, Terraria or old emulators like SNES if lasts a decent amount of time. Honestly if the ROG Ally X (new improved model) was this price, I'd jump on it because other than the screen that handheld leaves the Steam Deck OLED for dead. But it just released so we won't see any discount on that till probably easter next year or something, it's currently $1400+ and the Ally here for $740ish is usually $1099.
But I'm guessing we will see a new MSI Claw (competitor to this) with the new Lunar Lake CPUs and Battlemage iGPU sometime early next year and that might bring better performance than the Ally X for about $1200. Supposedly Intel will have far better graphics drivers and game compatibility with Battlemage because they restructured the way the architecture works so they need less software intervention and this is the main problem with the current MSI Claw currently.
Ive seen PS5 on sale for $670-$699. what justifies the considerably higher price tag considering its inferior performance?
Are you asking why a portable handheld gaming device (basically just a windows laptop) has inferior performance to one of the highest performing gaming consoles ever released? And they're the same price point?
It can't be compared to a laptop, It's nowhere near as versatile as a laptop.
As someone mentioned it's performance is comparable to a PS4, which is about 10 year old tech. So considering you can get a PS4 for around 230-250, it would make sense if it were around 300-350ish or even 400 given the portability aspect. But 740? Which is supposedly a sale price? Im not seeing the value yet.
@Captain Cheapskate: … I think it might be worth you upgrading your rank to Major or even Colonel Cheapskate. What on earth are you basing your price point on?
playstation locks u into their ecosystem……………………………………………………………………………………..
Killer price
So intimidated to get one but I already have a steam deck 🥲
Who is intimidating you?
Gabe Newell
That's the same excuse I use when making purchases. 'Sorry babe got intimidated. Had to buy it'
I think you mean tempted bro
Just bought an Ally X today.
Looks like I’ll be holding off on flogging the OG Ally.
great price, I paid 850 for refurbished in june,
points for new buyers
1- this is a solid device for me however read up on some of the feedback around warranty claims
2- reccomend to not use the micro sd card for storage as it seems to be a design flaw
3- 512gb is not enough storage, the one you want is Western Digital WD SN740 1 or 2TB, which is posted here frequently when on sale
4- for some an external battery pack is necessary, dyor as the battery pack needs to have (30 or 60 cant recall) watt power delivery
5- suggest you buy your covers/cases/docks/accessories/screen protectors off aliexpress, your usb-c dock needs to support PD passthrough
For tinkerers
1- external gpu dock utilising the custom xg mobile connection , https://github.com/osy/XG_Mobile_Station, can use any desktop gpu with the device for extra performance in a docked configuration
2-https://www.allymods.com/, the website is down currently however there is tutorials/services offered to upgrade the internal ram and battery, really neat idea
Thank you for posting this. Im not intending to buy the Ally (but it is a good deal) but I do own an X13 and I was dreaming that somebody would reverse engineer the XG mobile connection and somebody went above and beyond with that github repo.
Thanks, screenshotted for price protection. Should pay for a couple of years of the new $8 a month fee on 28D!
There's a new monthly fee for 28D cards? Always wish I got it early for the price protection. But people use them for no international fees as well?
From next month, yeah. There's other cards with no int fees that don't have a monthly fee, so unless you have price protection its a crap product now.
$8 a month just for no international fees is crap like you say! Big ozbargain regret not having the price protection 28d card when it was available.
Might need to look for an international fees free card as pissed off even my icloud payment gets me charged international fees.
I’ve been trying to get them to pay me my promotion money from the Suica x Apple Pay Mastercard deal for the past few months. They still owe me ¥800, which is funny because it’s roughly $8. I’m definitely cancelling before the fees kick in. Latitude sucks.
The grandfathered 28D was the best
I got refurbished for $760. This would need adapter for us to au plug.
This is new, you paid too much for refurbished
Been on the fence for many months…i finally caved!
How is this compared to steamdeck oled? Similar price between the 2? And is the Ally X worth so much extra?
I haven't had a handheld since the gameboy days.
If you've got gamepass and games on Epic/GOG etc get this, if your library is just on steam I'd go with the Deck oled even though it's relatively "underpowered".
I guess games split pretty evenly between GOG and Steam. Is this the better hardware and windows? Steam works on this as well right or it's not so simple?
Ally X looks awesome but so expensive.
Had to cancel and re-order the old price expired not long ago! https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/859080
Amazon refused to give price difference, lucky I was able to cancel in time as old one was not shipped
That's a saving of $120…
Had to go thru Topcashback again as well.
Didn't have enough funds on the card which I originally ordered, had to transfer from another card as Amazon has an authorisation of $860 not released yet….
Thanks OP!
Waiting for the Xbox handheld.
Probably not a problem if you have this plugged in when playing, but that battery life…
Good luck with warranty…