Ayaneo 2S will officially be one of the first Steam Deck rivals with Ryzen 7000

Z1 Excessive who? Ayaneo has simply confirmed it can use AMD’s comparable however unannounced Ryzen 7000 U-series chips in a brand new batch of handheld gaming PCs — together with the never-before-seen Ayaneo 2S and Ayaneo Geek 1S, the beforehand introduced sliding keyboard Ayaneo Slide, and a brand new model of the Ayaneo Air Plus.

What’s extra, the corporate is now promising upgrades for its current PCs as an alternative of simply quickly making them out of date — it can provide a free speaker improve for each Ayaneo Air and a free cooling module for each Ayaneo 2 and Ayaneo Geek that may decrease its temperature by as much as 12 levels Celsius.

The brand new three-pipe cooler is among the highlights of the Ayaneo 2S, which is in any other case largely a lifeless ringer for the Ayaneo 2 that I just lately panned, although the corporate claims it additionally has a brighter, extra colourful display screen, smoother triggers, an easier-to-open case, and a fingerprint sensor optimized for fewer errors.

The opposite spotlight, in fact, is the AMD Ryzen 7000U chip, which definitely appears to be the unannounced 3.3GHz Ryzen 7 7840U that’s quietly arming a complete wave of latest Steam Deck rivals. Are you able to make out the main points?

Aya says the brand new “7000 Collection” processor presents “vital enchancment over the 6800U, with significantly substantial efficiency good points within the low TDP 8-15W gold vary.” That seems like precisely what Aya wants: the issue reviewers like myself recognized with the 6800U was that you simply couldn’t run it with Steam Deck ranges of effectivity and nonetheless anticipate it to carry out correctly.

Sadly, Aya isn’t saying something about higher battery life from the Ayaneo 2S and Geek 1S armed with that chip — solely that the 7000 collection will provide barely higher temperatures, too.

Like the unique Geek, the brand new Geek 1S is just a cut-down Ayaneo 2 with fewer parts and a lower-resolution 800p display screen for higher battery, now with the 7000 collection processor as effectively. Ayaneo can be promising main enhancements to its software program launcher atop Home windows. The corporate admits it “encountered many difficulties in the midst of growth” for Ayaspace and is now creating Ayaspace 2.0.

What should you’re caught with the corporate’s Ayaneo 2 and Geek? Ayaneo says it might be able to give you a motherboard improve sooner or later — and should you’ve ordered an Ayaneo Air Plus with the 6800U chip and haven’t obtained it but, it’ll allow you to change to the 7000 collection chip free of charge.

One annoying bit of stories for the corporate’s earliest followers: Ayaneo is suggesting it can finish its “free lifetime guarantee plan” for the unique Ayaneo Founder’s Version, giving folks a voucher for a free Ayaneo 2021 as an alternative.

The Ayaneo 2S and Geek 1S will debut on Indiegogo by the top of April, go on sale in mid-Might, and ship by the top of June. Free cooling and speaker upgrades are coming in mid-Might. There’s no timeline but for the Ayaneo Slide, however the Android-based Ayaneo Pocket Air will go into mass manufacturing in July.

Lastly, the corporate is teasing a brand new Ayaneo Kun that it claims may have probably the most buttons and display screen but — and the “largest battery capability in a Home windows handheld.”