Oof, okay, so here’s the thing with this whole Microsoft and Asus handheld madness. Imagine project Kennan, this elusive creature that folks have whispered about for ages, finally crawling out of the shadows. A bit dramatic, but hey, it’s now this variant of the mystical ROG Ally 2 series.
So 91mobiles and this wizard named Huang514613 at X spilled the beans about it. Guess what? Asus is brewing up two flavors of this ROG Ally 2. You’ve got a slick black version with an Xbox Button—can you believe it?—and a chill white version that’s apparently for the average Joe. Or maybe not? Who knows.
Project Kennan’s been in the headlines forever. Not that we had a clue what it actually was, but now stuff’s falling into place. Thanks to some nosy people, we discovered these model IDs linked to some US FCC treasure chest. And, oh boy, talk about déjà vu—seems like these models are as different as chalk and cheese, just like the OG ROG Ally. You’ve got AMD’s Z1 versus the Z1 Extreme face-off, with a $100 hole in your wallet. Asus is playing it safe with x86 compatibility, which is kinda neat, I guess.
The Xbox Button—screams Project Kennan, doesn’t it? But let’s not get too crazy—it’s probably just a Windows 11 gizmo, opening Game Bar like your average PC. Anticlimactic? Maybe. But who knows what tricks Microsoft’s got up their sleeves until we hear it from them.
Anyway—oh, what was I saying? Right, specs. Underneath, it’s housing AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme—eight cores of sheer madness (Zen 5 and some 5c blend) with 16 threads and a muscle-bound iGPU. Sounds like a powerhouse ready to blow your socks off, right? And don’t even start on the 64GB LPDDR5x memory and a monster 2TB SSD. Yikes.
Now, the white model—mystery alert! It’s got this unheard-of AMD thingamajig, tagged “100-000001835”—real catchy, huh? It’s packing 16GB RAM, and you get the same 7-inch screen with 120 Hz. I hear it’s like the Zen version of a Steam Deck. Or is it?
Apparently, more will come out at Computex, and oh, I’m on pins and needles about AMD’s Z2 stuff called “Ryzen Z2 A”—it’s got four cores and a whole TDP thing going, but the details are all rather hush-hush.
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