Lenovo launches the Legion Go S Powered by SteamOS, a handheld gaming PC running on Valve's SteamOS operating system. This marks the first time SteamOS is available on a device not made by Valve. The Legion Go S features an 8-inch display, the updated Legion Go S shell, and a competitive price starting at $500.
The leaks were right. Lenovo is making the first handheld gaming PC licensed to use SteamOS, finally breaking the operating system out of Valve’s own Steam Deck. The Legion Go S Powered by SteamOS — that’s the official name that I’ll be ignoring from this point forward for obvious reasons — is a handheld packing an 8-inch display, the updated Legion Go S shell, and a black color. It starts at just $500.
We may put handhelds like the Asus ROG Ally and Steam Deck up against each other, but the real power of Valve’s handheld is that it’s affordable. For as good as devices like the original Lenovo Legion Go are, they’re hundreds of dollars more expensive than what you can pick up the Steam Deck for. The Legion Go S with SteamOS is changing that story. \Lenovo says the handheld is slated to launch in May, and it’ll come with one of two chip options. You can either configure it with the Ryzen Z1 Extreme that we’ve seen in several handhelds or with the new Ryzen Z2 Go processor. The Ryzen Z2 Go is actually the weaker of the two options, however. It’s a quad-core chip based on AMD’s Zen 3 architecture, while the Z1 Extreme comes with eight cores based on the newer Zen 4 architecture. Thankfully, the Z2 Go comes with the same RDNA 3 graphics architecture as the Z1 Extreme, and with the same 12 compute units. \As I wrote about a few weeks ago, Lenovo and AMD are holding an event here at CES 2025 — later today at the time of publishing, in fact — so hopefully I’ll get my hands on the device in short order. Maybe I’ll even have a chance to see how the Z2 Go performs. That’s certainly a big question given the aggressive pricing on this Legion Go. \Related Lenovo tells me that the Ryzen Z2 Go is designed exclusively for the Legion Go S, likely to get the price dow
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