The Lenovo Legion Go arrives just as the Steam Deck OLED renews everyone's love for the concept of the handheld gaming PC . As you’d expect for something that starts at $699, it outdoes the Steam Deck in most ways – as long as you have hands big enough to handle it. This chunky handheld is powered by the same chip behind the Asus ROG Ally – the AMD Z1 Extreme – but packs a gorgeous 8.
8-inch, 1600p IPS display and up to a full 1TB of storage space. It does come in a fair bit pricier at the high end, but every penny is worth it if having a larger display and native Windows 11 is something you’re interested in. Let’s get one thing out of the way, the Go is big .
We're talking 8.27 inches wide and 5.6 inches tall, with a thickness at 0.
79 inches. To put that in perspective, the Razer Blade 15 is 0.78 inches thick when it's closed, and that's one of the best gaming laptops around right now.
If that sounds kind of exhausting to hold, that's because it kind of is – especially if you have smaller hands like I do. The good news is that you often don’t have to. Unlike the Steam Deck or the ROG Ally, the controllers on the sides of the screen are removable, fashioning this as something more akin to an oversized Nintendo Switch that just so happens to run Windows instead of whatever glued-together Unix-based OS Nintendo's handheld runs on.
And that's awesome. Because unlike the Switch, the 8.8-inch screen is perfect for playing propped up on a table with the controllers r.
