Lenovo’s 8.8-inch portable has all kinds of tricks up its sleeve. It’s a powerful Windows tablet with a pair of detachable Nintendo Switch-like wireless controllers and a full-width kickstand — the better to play at a table, stand up vertically for reading, or dock to a TV. Unlike Nintendo’s Joy-Cons, the Go’s controllers have drift-resistant Hall effect joysticks.


It’s powered by the same AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme as the ROG Ally, which is effectively a match for the Ryzen 7 7840U processor often employed in other handhelds. It comes with an RDNA 3 GPU featuring 12 compute units, which is plenty of power for many indies and low-rent games like Sonic, and even a few big hitters that play nicely on lower-spec hardware. However, it’s not going to get you far with a 2560 x 1600 resolution at 144Hz in many popular or recently released games.


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