Interested to hear more. Early benchmarks and such paint it as faster than the Ally? Thought they used the same chips. It does have faster RAM. I've seen some benchmarks where it beat out the Ally but then others where the Go was better, but in both cases this was by like 2-3 FPS. That said, when I ran the CoD Modern Warfare 2 benchmark, I got higher results. The highest I recall on the Ally was 120 FPS, but on here I've seen it go as high as 140 FPS. The averages are still about the same though.
On the subject of CoD, I ran into a fun issue today after updating the AMD drivers to the latest version, or rather "latest" version that Lenovo put out, which is a month behind. The game prompted that newer drivers were needed and would crash if I tried to play it. Fortunately, there is a fairly easy way to sideload newer AMD drivers to get around this:
VIDEO This is the kind of thing where Lenovo really needs to get their shit together.
Think the only criticisms I saw vs the Ally is the portrait vs native landscape screen. I had some issues with it on my GPD Win 1. Really, because it could only run games from the pre 360 generations. Easy to fix with a program forcing dx8 games into borderless full screen. The Phawx put put a video on the Go today and he goes over this- it's definitely an issue for much older games.
The bottom USB C port seems intended for a dock. Why Lenovo doesn’t have one ready to go is strange. I’m sure some third party will jump on it. I can always prop it up on a tablet stand and there are super-flat USB-C cables available that I might try. It's a small bummer.
Here's how I feel about it right now. Some of this I already posted before and above. It's copy/pasted, sorry!
Pros:
-Much better controls. They feel better, the triggers are much better, the buttons are better, and it has hall effect sticks.
-Detachable controllers- Hey, it's the Switch Turbo! But the FPS mode it offers is cool and you get a mouse to use on top of that.
-Performance seems to be a bit better than the Ally- I got as high as 140 FPS in the CoD benchmark using FSR.
-Touchpad- there's just one, but it's nice for navigation. I also like the scroll wheel on the back of the right controller.
-Awesome screen. It's larger, is 144hz, and looks nice. It doesn't have VRR like the Ally, but it really doesn't matter.
-Kickstand. I wish every handheld had this. It's nice not needing to bring a stand.
-Second USB-C port. Has already come in extremely handy and made cloning the SSD to the larger one a snap. But there is also a con to this.
-Snappier UI. It comes right up and has no lag unlike Asus' Armory Crate.
-No bloatware. I appreciate this. Nothing to uninstall apart from some Microsoft's stuff like Office.
-Included case. It's also good quality! They took a cue from Valve here for sure.
-There don't appear to be any restrictions on chargers, unlike with the Ally. I was able to use an Ally AC adapter and still get 30W. Haven't tried to see what happens with a dock/hub yet.
Cons:
-The d-pad is not bad, but it's more "flat" and I prefer the Ally and Steam Deck's d-pads to this. Doesn't bother me since if I'm playing a fighting game, I'm gonna use other controllers anyway.
-While the UI is snappier, it takes longer to load up when you turn the Go on. It also has this annoying intro movie that plays. Maybe there's a way to turn it off?
-No battery charge limit options. This is dumb and hopefully will get added.
-No options to change VRAM. You can do this in the BIOS, though.
-The size is both a pro and a con. It's noticeably heavier than other handhelds.
-The speakers are definitely not as good as the SD and Ally. Not bad, but noticeably quieter. There are supposedly some ways to boost it.
-AMD drivers. They don't have the most updated ones available so some games may not work. You can sideload newer drivers to get around this for now.
