00:00So you have no idea how long I've been waiting for this.
00:03I've asked MSI time and time and time again,
00:06when are you going to do an AMD version of the MSI Claw?
00:10And now we have it.
00:12This is the MSI Claw A8,
00:14and it comes with AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme inside it.
00:17Very fast, very powerful chip,
00:20and I've been testing it.
00:21So let's talk about it.
00:24So I've managed to play a couple of games on it.
00:26I've played Marvel's Spider-Man 2, I've played Hellblade,
00:28I've also played Liza P on it as well.
00:31And what I've largely seen is that whenever you're using FSR 3.1,
00:35you're getting insanely good frame rates going on here.
00:39Of course, if you put something super cinematic,
00:41super challenging at it, like Hellblade 2,
00:44you start to see it's tougher a little bit,
00:46and maybe you're going to get about 30 FPS at 1080p,
00:49which is still more than playable.
00:51But in something like Spider-Man 2,
00:52something that's a bit more optimized for that,
00:54you can easily find yourself getting 60 frames a second
00:58and, hell, you can even tune it up to 1080p, 90 frames a second
01:01on something this size,
01:03which is quite frankly ludicrous.
01:06In terms of what I asked you're getting,
01:07you've got the same 8-inch 920x1200 display,
01:11you're getting Windows 11 on it.
01:13Sometime, please give us SteamOS, that'll be splendid.
01:16The buttons feel a lot more clickier on this one
01:19compared to the previous gen,
01:20and also there's been some ergonomic choices made here.
01:22So, for example, the hand grips on the back,
01:24they're a lot more blocky
01:25compared to the more rounded-off version
01:28that you saw on the previous Temicycler,
01:31or even the Lenovo Legion Go S.
01:34So what that means is you can get a much firmer grasp of this
01:37compared to the flattered surface that you got on the previous Claw.
01:41Ports on the top remain the same,
01:43you've got the same 80-watt-hour battery inside it.
01:45Pricing is still a bit of an unknown.
01:48That makes me a little bit nervous
01:49given the Intel version is going for about $950 in the US,
01:53so I'm not entirely sure what this is going to cost.
01:57Hopefully it's a decent price.
01:59And also, I can't ignore the fact
02:00that I absolutely love the colour of this thing.
02:02It comes in multiple different colours,
02:04including like a hot pink, a bright blue as well.
02:07It's nice to see a company actually having fun with this stuff.
02:10But I want to know what you think.
02:11Would you pick up something like this?
02:13Go ahead and let me know in the comments.
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