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 screen design – that reveals a keyboard beneath – the Antec Core HS provides a unique bodily design to a lot of the larger gamers.
Whereas an attention-grabbing design that looks as if it will have potential to carve out a spot on our greatest handheld gaming PC information, the Antec Core HS is in truth only a rebranded model of an present 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 doubtlessly game-changing design with its built-in keyboard but in addition some spectacular different specs. Its display screen is a 6-inch, 1080, IPS panel with as much as 400nits brightness and 85% DCI-P3 colour area 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 major 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 could be a comparable worth to this unit (although a brand new Asus ROG Ally deal sees the non-X model presently 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 include a carry case, a tempered glass display screen protector, “efficiency” thumbsticks, and a docking station. Antec doesn’t clarify the latter two however the thumbsticks seem to simply be different thumbstick caps whereas the dock holds the machine at a handy angle, expenses it via a USB-C connector, and offers microSD and SD enlargement slots. This extra capacious unit with its additional prices $699 at launch.
Each fashions can be found in a selection of black or white with the items wanting fairly fetching. The design of this handheld has us actually intrigued however till we actually get to have an in depth play with it and check out that keyboard, we will’t say for sure how nicely it would work. Notably, the Core HS doesn’t embrace trackpads which may restrict its usability.
For extra on what’s presently our favourite Home windows gaming handheld, try our Asus ROG Ally X evaluate, which particulars why it’s the brand new gold commonplace.
