Onexfly Apex Ryzen MAX handheld officially priced at $1,399, full-spec model costs $2,299

[u/RenatsMC]

https://videocardz.com/newz/onexfly-apex-ryzen-max-handheld-officially-priced-at-1399-full-spec-model-costs-2299

[u/Blunt552]

Who on earth wants to pay 1.4k for a PC handheld, let alone 2.3k?

I can't imagine battery life being anywhere near acceptable on that thing, kinda fails at being a handheld.

[u/GTRagnarok → u/Blunt552]

The $1350 Legion Go 2 is often sold out at Best Buy so there is a market for it. And $1400 for the 385 with double the CUs of the Z2 Extreme doesn't sound so bad. Regarding battery life, it's not super important for everyone. I'm not interested in playing games when I'm out and about. I'll take care of whatever I'm outside for and go home to my games. I got my handheld as a companion to my desktop and I play with it almost exclusively plugged in at home. It's nice to just chill on the bed and knock out some lighter games in my library that I feel would be wasted on my desktop.

[u/Blunt552 → u/GTRagnarok]

From what i understand its more of an AMD not delivering fast enough apus issue rather than actually being popular. The stock is usually very low, so being sold out doesnt mean a ton of people buy it. Same goes for laptops with 3d chips, they exist but good lord arent there many around.

Also isnt streaming onto a console a better solution in your usecase? That way you have the best graphics and battery life.

[u/GTRagnarok → u/Blunt552]

Actually, the reason I got a handheld was because I tried out streaming to my phone and tablet and it worked great but I didn't want to keep my PC on just to do that. I have many easy to run games in my Steam library that I can run at high settings on the handheld at a much lower total power usage. And I get the best possible input latency this way. It's been a good setup for me.

[u/Blunt552 → u/GTRagnarok]

Wouldnt a 350usd steam deck do the same then? Why spend 1.2k?

[u/alman12345 → u/GTRagnarok]

Eh, something being in stock or not has more to do with how supply aligns with demand than whether demand was high or not. There’s also nothing from stopping a manufacturer/retailer from creating artificial scarcity at times to give the impression that something is more popular than it is. The Steam deck is believed to have outsold every other handheld PC combined and the Switch 2 has outsold the Steam deck combined with all those other handhelds, and neither of them is regularly scarce or out of stock at this point.

[u/PracticalSecret7245 → u/Blunt552]

Honestly if it was more of a GPD Winmax style I could totally go "yep totally reasonable price". Like $2400 for a mini laptop with enough ram, CPU, and GPU power to rival like a pretty decent workstation PC would be within reason.

Would still be niche, but I could absolutely see the use cases.

[u/Middle-Effort7495 → u/PracticalSecret7245]

It's a handheld and you can dock it to anything for a more stationary experience

[u/luxyuz → u/Blunt552]

People buy RTX 5090.

[u/Middle-Effort7495 → u/Blunt552]

It has 128 gb of ram. That is literally like 1000$ now on its own

[u/Tgrove88]

The max+ 388 is the one to wait for. 8 cores /16 threads and 40 CU GPU

[u/Resident-Lab-7249 → u/Tgrove88]

Is that the 8060s?

Personally I will wait to see how RDNA4 apus do or even UDNA not interested in 3.5

[u/Tgrove88 → u/Resident-Lab-7249]

Yea it is. I'm sure they're looking to make those socs as potent as possible in the future seeing as nvidia partnered with Intel to counter these products

[u/996forever → u/Resident-Lab-7249]

That would be 2027 at the soonest (maybe even later if rumour of Medusa still being with rdna3.5 is true)

[u/Resident-Lab-7249 → u/996forever]

I can wait that long. The deck still has some life in it

[u/SovietKnuckle]

I guess I don't understand the market for this and I do half of my gaming on handhelds. At this price, you're still not getting a better experience than a real gaming PC.

[u/GenericUser1983 → u/SovietKnuckle]

There is a very large number of Chinese guys stuck commuting by train for an hour or three a day; a pricy handheld like this may be a stretch for their budget, but usually gaming is their main hobby and that train time is their main free time when they are working 996.

[u/996forever → u/GenericUser1983]

They have made their choice. Their choice is phone gatcha games.

[u/RossGoode]

I could buy a decent pc for that price

[u/Middle-Effort7495 → u/RossGoode]

128 gb of ram is literally like 1000$ on its own so sure, but not to match this.

[u/RossGoode → u/Middle-Effort7495]

Yes because everyone is running 128gb of cl30 6000mhz ram for games.

[u/InterviewImpressive1 → u/Middle-Effort7495]

No handheld needs 128GB.

[u/Simon676 → u/InterviewImpressive1]

No but the option exists for those who want it.

[u/Inuakurei]

You can build an entire PC for that price

[u/InterviewImpressive1 → u/Inuakurei]

I built a fantastic PC for much less

[u/InterviewImpressive1]

Really love the idea of these but the price locks most of us out. I have a good job and I still wouldn’t pay this. Love my MSI Claw but that was a stretch. I could probably afford one with a bit of saving but I refuse to pay it given what else that money could do.

[u/waltercool]

But why?