I replaced my Gaming PC with the ROG Ally

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

I've been using my ROG Ally as my main

computer for a few weeks now, and it's

been really amazing, and I've actually

been able to put away my big chunky

laptop. So here is my 17-inch Razer Blade

Pro gaming laptop with RTX 3060 graphics

card and an Intel i7 10th generation

processor. As you can see, this thing is

pretty beefy, it's pretty big, it's almost

as big as my head plus half my torso. So

as you can see, it's a very chunky device,

and compared to the ROG Ally. Look at the

size difference. I can't even hold it with

one hand. Look at that. This thing is tiny

compared to my laptop.

So it's been really nice being able to

replace this massive thing which weighs

almost 4 kg with the power brick. This

thing takes up so much room in my backpack

when I'm going traveling, have to go

through security. Having to drag this out

of my backpack messes up all of the

internal integrity structural design of

the insides of my backpack because this is

basically holding up the structure of the

insides of my backpack with all the

clothing, clothing stuffed inside of it.

When I pull this out of the backpack,

everything inside collapses, and then

having to stuff it back in whilst at the

airport whilst trying to put my belt back

on and my jacket back on and everything

back on is really annoying. So being able

to ditch the laptop in favor of the ROG

Ally now that I know that it is a

competent computer and it can do all of

the things I usually do on my laptop, I

can do on the ROG Ally without any

problems at all. So I feel confident in

being able to ditch this and completely

replace replacing this massive slab with

the little minuscule ROG Ally, which is

gonna be very good for my backpack. And

it's pretty amazing that this tiny device

can do everything I was already doing on

my laptop. I thought my laptop was a

pretty powerful thing, and it is quite

powerful. It's quite expensive as well,

costing over $2,000. I bought it about 2

years ago, back when the RTX 3000 series

was top of the line, but now it's replaced

by the 4000 series. But I can do all the

things I was doing on the laptop I can do

that on the ROG Ally without any problems.

I, I do my video editing, I do my live

streaming on the ROG Ally, and it runs

flawlessly without any hiccups or

staggering or stuttering or lag. I play

all my games on the ROG Ally like Diablo

4, Rainbow Six on ultra high graphics or

high graphics. Sometimes I put the

graphics down to medium to get a bit of a

boost in frame rates per second. Internet

browsing, watching YouTube, obviously all

that is really great on this as well,

easy to do that. And the speakers on this—

and the speakers on this thing are really

good. You can see you've got 2 big speaker

grates here and here, and they sound

really good. Actually, they sound better

than my laptop speakers. So when I'm using

my external monitor with the ROG Ally, it

becomes a very viable computer setup.

I've got this curved display plugged into

an HDMI that's plugged into a USB hub that

plugs into the top of the ROG Ally, which

allows you to connect everything to it.

I've got a keyboard— you see my external

keyboard— I've got my mouse here. So I

just sit here like that typing away, and I

can use this display instead of this tiny

one because the ROG Ally display is very

small. It's only like 6 or 7 inches. It's

very hard to do anything properly on that

tiny screen, and playing a lot of games on

that tiny screen makes my vision go all

blurry. So very nice to have a big 27-inch

curved monitor. Now if you're traveling,

you won't really be able to carry a

27-inch curved monitor in your backpack

unless you've got a really big backpack.

So I'm thinking of getting one of those

15-inch portable monitors that plugs

into the HDMI or USB-C, and then it will

just replace my iPad. I've got a 10-inch

iPad Pro iPad Pro that I think I might

just ditch as well and replace it with a

15-inch portable monitor that plugs into

the ROG Ally. Then I've got this big

screen solution for the ROG Ally that can

also be used for watching YouTube and

playing games and is quite thin and it's

going to be very portable compared to this

big laptop. So for my travel backpack,

I'll have my keyboard, my mouse, ROG Ally,

and then a 15-inch portable monitor

display. It also saves me a lot of desk

space because I used to have my laptop

here like this. Whoops, nearly broke my

laptop. So I used to have my laptop here

on the corner of the desk, and then I

would have it— which way does it open?

I'd have it open— wait, wait, how does it

open? Oh, it's this way around.

Okay, so I'd have it open like that And

then I'd have this plugged into the

monitor. But as you can see, it takes up

so much damn room and I can't even see my

fish tank anymore. So it's really nice

being able to just put this away and look

at all that space it frees up. I got all

this space to put my toothpick and money

and stuff like that, and now I can

actually see my fish tank.

Okay, so I'll show you how it works. It's

quite simple really. What you're going to

need is one of these USB-C hubs or USB

hubs. So I've got almost every port filled

in right now. Let me zoom in. So we've

got, um, 1, 2, 3 USB ports and 2

USB-C ports, HDMI port, and also SD card

slot reader. And this one is for the

power. You're gonna have to connect your

power source into there. And then these

other ones are for the keyboard and the

mouse, the receivers and transmitters.

And then you want to plug in this USB-C

part here into the top of the ROG Ally.

There, and it should automatically detect

like that. And then,

um, maybe turn on the ROG Ally would be

helpful. I don't know why the ROG Ally

likes to turn itself off. I think it's

off.

I think it's on standby mode. Just go wake

it up. Trust me, it is very

Huh, that's weird. Ah,

there you go, you just gotta hold it on

for a few seconds. I think I might have

accidentally turned it off by holding down

the power button. Oh well, it's okay. So

just do the boot-up menu. After it's done

the boot-up menu and goes to the login

screen, it will then automatically switch

to the monitor. It's so nice having this

tiny little body instead of a massive

laptop taking up all the space. Even

better than a desktop. A desktop, you got

the big tower and all the crap that comes

with it. You'll put that under the table

or behind the monitor. With this, you got

this tiny little device. It's so small.

And then we got this beautiful— wow,

that's a nice photo. I don't know where

that was taken, but looks pretty nice.

Yeah, nice photo. Let me put in my

password. I'll show you some gaming.

Okay, so first of all, it'll boot up

Armory Crate, which is kind of annoying

because I never want to use it. And this

is your desktop experience. Experience.

Welcome to Windows 11 from the ROG Ally.

It is basically just like using a laptop

or desktop. Sometimes I forget I'm even

using the ROG Ally because it just feels—

it basically feels exactly like I'm using

the laptop, even though the Ryzen— what is

it— AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip is supposed

to be slightly less powerful than the RTX

3060 chip. I think it's supposed to be the

equivalent of a GTX 1060— no,

1650 Ti, which is obviously a

generation before the RTX 3000 series.

But honestly, it just feels as snappy and

as quick and as fast as a pretty expensive

laptop. So you got this desktop

experience, you got everything. There's

no— not really any point showing you this

because I think you know what using

Windows 11 is like. So I'll go ahead and

boot up some gaming, show you what the

gaming is like. With a plugged-in monitor.

Play some Rainbow Six Siege.

Also, the great thing about it is you can

use the ROG Ally screen as a second

monitor if you want to do some gaming on

the big screen and then put some YouTube

here on the smaller screen where you're

not really paying too much attention to

it. That I can drag this over to the main

screen like that, maximize it, I can

minimize it, drag it back over to the ROG

Ally screen, do like multi-window Uh,

multi-box window, split window

multitasking. And then you can like drag

it to the left, drag it back to the right.

You can use both of the screens if you

want to. So that's really good for

multitasking whilst you wait for Rainbow

Six to boot up. And if you're wondering

what that noise was in the earlier part of

the video, that was just my washing

machine. That's not the fan sound from the

ROG Ally. I don't know how loud it was.

It's pretty loud, wasn't it? Okay, so

we've got some Rainbow Six. Loading right

now. Found a match, show you some

gameplay. I mean,

I'm playing at— what are my settings at?

I put it down to very high instead of

ultra, but I think— wait, where is it?

Uh, very high. For some reason it won't

let me change it, but yeah, the graphics

are on very high. It looks great. And it

plays really well as well. Let me get the

monitor up. Where is it? Uh,

real-time monitor on.

And as you can see on the top left, we've

got 100 frames per second.

Talk about 30 FPS or 60 FPS, how about 100

FPS? This game runs buttery smooth.

Temperature of 79 degrees. We're on turbo

mode, which is 25-watt, 25-watt turbo

mode, fastest mode ever. So the game plays

absolutely flawlessly. Look how smooth it

is. It feels exactly like playing on my

laptop. I don't see any point of playing

this on my laptop instead of playing on

the ROG Ally. There's no advantage of

playing on a laptop. It plays exactly the

same. I can't believe it. Look at all this

space I got on my desk as well. It's not

all cluttered with that massive laptop

taking up all the room. And then when I go

traveling, I don't have to lug around that

stupid 5 kg 17-inch plus my power brick

setup. If I just get a 15-inch portable

laptop— I mean, portable monitor— that

would be so much lighter. This is— I mean,

this keyboard weighs nothing, it's like

200 grams. The ROG weighs nothing, it's

like 300 grams. 600 grams. The mouse

weighs nothing. Oh my God, oh, I got a

kill! Oh my God, there's one more there!

Can I take out one more? Oh, okay.

Sometimes my trick works where I hide

behind the corner and then I suddenly dash

out. Sometimes it catches them by

surprise, but not that time. So I was

saying that the keyboard plus ROG Ally is

like 500-600 grams, plus a portable

monitor, 15-inch, would be a couple

hundred grams. I'm saying— I'm gonna say

you're looking at like a 1 kilogram

loadout for the whole thing. You might be

thinking you ditch your laptop to create a

new laptop because you've got all the

components of a laptop, but they're all

separate instead of just built into one

device. You've got the keyboard, the

external monitor, which I'm going to get

later, and the mouse. So you are kind of

just making a new laptop out of different

parts, but all of the different parts are

way lighter. I don't know why my 17-inch

gaming laptop is so damn heavy, but I

really hate that thing. The only good

thing about it is the big nice screen.

17-inch screen is pretty nice,

but I just, I can't justify the weight and

the cumbersome-ness of it. I just prefer

this nice little small thing. And then if

you want to, you can unplug this and then

just play it handheld, go over to the bed

or sit down on the sofa and play some

Rainbow Six or any other game you want to

play. I mean, I could show you some other

games, but it takes such a long time to

have to close stuff and open it. Not

because ROG Ally is slow, it's just— I

don't know about you, but modern games

these days take such a damn long time to

open. All these stupid cutscenes and intro

scenes, and it takes a while to boot in.

Even opening Rainbow Six, you've got to

like log into Ubisoft Connect to even

get the game loaded, and then all these

stupid little cutscenes takes freaking

ages. So we're in South Korea, Seoul,

right now. Look at the beautiful scenery.

Look at that. Have you ever just stopped

to look over the edge of the building and

see a little traffic moving around? Look

at the little traffic. Let me zoom in.

Can you see that? See, I don't think

you can see it, but you can see little

cars driving around.

Can't believe this game is, what, 8 years

old and it still looks so good.

There's just some— everything just looks

great in this game. The reflections,

lighting, The attention to detail.

Might not have the latest, most advanced

gaming engine or ray tracing or that

stuff, but it looks great. I mean, look at

this little orange glow light up there.

Nice little desk, little lamp on the desk,

little plant. All the text is sharp and

clear. Look at this little book.

That's got Korean writing on it.

It's got pictures. Everything looks so

crisp and clear in this game.

I love all the levels. Well, not all of

them, some of them are kind of boring,

but this one's pretty good. This game

feels so smooth as well. I never feel

like I died because the game is not

smooth. Someone over there.

Oh, someone over there! Watch out! Oh, I

was too late to save my friend. I got him

in the head though. I don't like how the

bodies disappear now. They made a change,

but before the change, the bodies used to

stay there during the whole game.

I'm the only one left. The hell happened

to my team? Okay, well, this is not going

to go well. 1 versus 4.

They might get cocky since

it's just me left. Oh, there's one there!

Oh, I got him, I got him! 3 left. Can I

ace the whole team? We've got 30 seconds.

The riskiest thing about this is blinking.

You blink, you might die.

Where are they? In the kitchen.

What? Where are they? 10 sec—

I think they're hiding from me. If I just

stay here, I might be able to win.

Oh, there's only 2 left.

Oh my God, how did I miss that?

I had the first shot as well. I just got

them in the legs. There was only 2 of them

left. That was a good match. So as you can

see, it plays this game really well. I

tried Diablo 4 as well and it plays that

really well as well. I haven't really

played super modern games. I have tried

Cyberpunk 2077, that played really well as

well. Starfield played good. But you had

to put the graphics down to like medium

and you only get about 30 FPS. So super

modern games, it does struggle a bit.

You have to put the graphics down to like

low or medium if you want to play super

new modern games. But games that are like

2 years old, 5 years old or more, they'll

play perfectly well on this. So I'm really

happy with this system.