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Ayaneo Kun: He promises a lot, can he deliver?
The Steam Deck's biggest weakness is battery life, but so far no competitor has been able to exploit this shortcoming. The Ayaneo 2 with the Ryzen 6800U processor was not up to the challenge. Even the Asus ROG Ally with the AMD Z1 Extreme processor failed to overtake its rival if it wanted to have a battery of the same capacity.
Vendar pa je zdaj morda našel odgovor Ayaneo – v večji, težji ročni napravi z imenom Ayaneo Kun, v katero so vstavili 75-Wh baterijo, ki naj bi po njihovih podatkih lahko zdržala do 3 ure in pol pri porabi 15 W TDP. To je skoraj dvakrat večja baterija in dvakrat daljši čas delovanja, kot bi pričakovali od Steam Decka pri tej moči, čeprav se zdi, da tega rezultata med igranjem iger niso zabeležili.
Nova prenosna konzola je že na voljo in ni dvoma, da gre za napravo z doslej najmočnejšo konfiguracijo: 8,4-palčni IPS zaslon z ločljivostjo 2560 x 1600 slikovnih točk, svetilnostjo 500 nitov, 90 % pokrit barvni razpon DCI-P3 … Ayaneo je očitno poslušal tudi pripombe uporabnikov, ki se bolj nagibajo k postavitvi gumbov na konzoli Steam Deck. Zato so pri novi napravi dodali večje ročaje, dve sledilni blazinici, štiri zadnje gumbe, močnejše sprožilce in celo majhno stojalo, ki spominja na Nintendo Switch.
Pod gumbom za funkcijo “Nazaj” je tudi majhna kamera s podporo za prijavo z obrazom (za Windows Hello). To je funkcija, ki je ne najdemo ravno na vsaki prenosljivi napravi. Dodali so še palčke in sprožilce s t. i. “Hall Effect”, ki preprečuje zdrse, in HD linearne motorje za boljše tresenje ter opcijski modul 4G za mobilno povezovanje. Pod stojalom je skrita reža za nanoSIM kartico.
The device is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7840U chip with a cooling system that the company claims can handle loads of up to 54W in turbo mode. For comparison, the ASUS ROG Ally can reach 30 W. The only question is how this will be known in terms of performance or whether this is even practical for the average user.
Ayaneo Kun has another advantage. Supports full-length M.2 2280 SSDs up to 8 TB. For example, competitors only support capacities up to 2 TB. Only the price is not the biggest advantage of the acclaimed console. For all this capacity, it is necessary to pay around 1200 euros, it can be even more if you choose the version with more RAM and space. That's almost three times what you have to shell out for the Steam Deck. Long-term support is also a problem. Ayaneo has a reputation for quickly forgetting about its products, which have quite a few software bugs and are not well optimized for foreign languages.
Regardless of the shortcomings, we can admit that it is an excellent device.
