Acer's new handheld is basically a PlayStation Portal for PC

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3151625/acer-has-another-new-gaming-handheld-and-its-basically-a-playstation-portal-for-your-pc.html

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artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 69d

Portal, not portable, in case anyone else misread it like me.

Basically a streaming-only device.

A quick search shows that you can get a 7-inch Android gaming handheld for around $250, so Acer will have to offer the Nitro Blaze Link for considerably less, or bump up its capabilities to match.

Stupendous@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 68d

Launchers sometimes makes the remote experience go all wonky in my experience. It's constantly improving though. I guess if it's super lightweight and super cheap, it could be kind of interesting. Still would rather something more usable as a docked PC. 1GB of memory sucks. Someone put a Spacemit k3 into a handheld with a 6-7 screen, like 8GB+ of memory, UFS or NVME storage, and any Linux distro and I'd be interested in an instant. Wouldn't be good for gaming, but it'd be a good dockable office machine. Maybe 4GB of memory is enough