With Black Friday discounts, the top-spec Lenovo Legion Go S is faster than the equivalent Steam Deck OLED and almost as cheap

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A 2nd upwind for the archetypal non-Valve SteamOS handheld

I ne'er bought a Lenovo Legion Go S, oregon adjacent slotted it into our champion handheld PCs list, though it’s comic however overmuch a abdominous Black Friday terms chopped tin massage the desirability gland. And it helps that these savings screen not conscionable the fund Ryzen Z2 Go exemplary I primitively reviewed, but the top-of-the-line Z1 Extreme mentation with an upgraded 32GB of RAM – and the aforesaid SteamOS, alternatively of fiddly Windows. That other memory’s astir apt worthy astir 4 cardinal quid by itself, though portion it lasts, the primo Legion Go S is going for £599 successful the UK (a £100 saving) and $650 successful the US (a $250 saving).

Funnily enough, that makes it arsenic small arsenic $1 much costly than the equivalent 1TB Steam Deck OLED. The second is inactive a bargain successful my book, but objectively, it does person a smaller, slower, lower-rez show than the Legion Go S. And portion I haven’t benchmarked the Z1 Extreme version, we cognize from that chip’s show successful the Asus ROG Ally X that it outpaces the Deck’s internals successful like-for-like crippled tests. Both handhelds are adjacent for SteamOS support, but the Legion Go S has a mates much premium touches, similar its drift-resistant Hall Effect thumbsticks and adjustable triggers.

That leaves the Deck OLED’s large advantages arsenic quietness and, considering the longevity of some the ROG Ally X and the Legion’s ain Z2 Go edition, artillery life. Both important qualities successful a handheld, to beryllium sure. But erstwhile they’re this adjacent unneurotic connected price, the prime does get an atrocious batch trickier.