MSI’s Claw A8 handheld helps AMD and Intel inside. This is how

Intel or AMD? It’s a wide selection for PC players, however if you would like a handheld, just one firm will allow you to select. With the brand new Claw A8, MSI is the one main vendor that’s providing handheld gaming PCs with guts from the blue and pink groups. At Computex, Adam Patrick Murray cornered MSI Product Administration Director Cliff Chun to speak about it.

Although the physique is extra angular, the newer model of the Claw is broadly just like the prevailing Claw 8 AI+, with the identical 8-inch, 120Hz display, similar primary format, similar battery. It has a brand new motherboard and cooling setup, in fact, because of utilizing the model new AMD Ryzen Z2 Excessive cellular chip. But when something that makes the brand new model simply extra just like current handhelds which have popped up for the reason that Steam Deck.

Chun says that MSI is specializing in giving gamers most battery life, whereas holding most video games at a 60 frames-per-second degree. That battery life is an estimated two hours, which isn’t precisely superb when in comparison with laptops operating on related {hardware}…however laptops have larger batteries and aren’t 100% centered on gaming. The audio system have been moved up a bit, however aren’t blocked by your fingers when held, in response to MSI.

MSI will nonetheless promote each the Claw 8 AI+ and the unique 7-inch mannequin, all based mostly on Intel and all operating Home windows, when the A8 releases later this 12 months. We don’t have pricing info in the mean time, and Chun is mum on any developments for a handheld operating SteamOS, just like the upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S. For extra on the newest PC gaming handhelds, you should definitely subscribe to PCWorld on YouTube, and tune in to our weekly podcast The Full Nerd.