3 reasons the Asus ROG Ally made me ditch consoles and gaming PCs

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today I want to talk about why I ditched

all of my gaming devices— my gaming

laptop, my PC, my Switch OLED, and

everything else basically— in order to

only have the ROG Ally. I like this thing

so much, and it's so powerful and useful

to be able to do everything I need to do

in life, that I don't need my laptop

anymore. I used to have an RTX 17-inch pro

gaming laptop with RTX 3060 graphics,

16GB of RAM, with an Intel i7 10th

generation, but I found myself feeling

that I don't need it anymore. And I

actually preferred using this over that

laptop because it was very heavy, took up

a lot of space on my desk, and I just shut

it away and put it away and closed it and

turned it off forever and continued using

my ROG Ally and managed to do all of my

jobs, all of my daily computing tasks I do

on a daily basis, managed to be able to do

all of them on this tiny device. And that

made me decide to sell my gaming laptop

that I used since 2021, which was very

expensive at the time, by the way, and did

a lot of things with that laptop. But I

think I feel like it's time move on to

much smaller and newer things, and I

decided to go for the ROG Ally. And in

today's video, I'll talk about 3 reasons

why I was able to ditch my big bulky heavy

gaming laptop in order to only use the ROG

Ally. Okay, so first of all, obviously the

size is a big factor. As someone who

travels a lot— I travel basically every

year— and I don't like to travel with a

big suitcase. I think those people who

walk around with a big massive suitcase on

wheels when they go traveling, I think

they're stupid. I imagine carrying a

massive suitcase, massive big luggage

thing like that. No, I like to travel

light. I have a small backpack and the

backpack is only barely big enough to be

able to fit in a 17-inch laptop. And you

might be thinking, why don't you just get

a bigger laptop? The size of— I mean, why

don't you get a bigger backpack? The size

of the backpack is not the important issue

here. It is the weight. Just because I get

a bigger backpack, yes, okay, I could put

more stuff into the backpack if it was

bigger, but then all my stuff would be

heavier. The whole point of traveling

light is to have a lightweight backpack,

and if you just get bigger ones, put in a

bigger laptop, then it just gets heavier

and heavier. So it became very heavy

because I had my 17-inch laptop in my

backpack, and it was very hard to move my

backpack around, especially when going

from hotel to hotel, because usually you

have to check out of the hotel in the

morning and you can't check out until— you

can't check into a new hotel until about 3

PM. So you're lugging around your backpack

and your luggage for about 5 hours. So you

check out at 10 or 11, you've got to check

in at 3, maybe too. That's a lot of hours

to be holding your backpack around, and it

would be nice if it was small and

lightweight. And thanks to the ROG Ally,

I'm able to do that, something I'm not

able to do with the big bulky 17-inch

gaming laptop. So I got myself an external

keyboard, I got myself a wireless mouse,

I got myself a brand new monitor as well,

27-inch curved display, and I've got HDMI

USB hub. And I plugged it all into the ROG

Ally thinking, this is gonna be crap. How

can a handheld gaming device be better

than my 17-inch pro gaming laptop? And I

was kind of disappointed at first because

it looked kind of fuzzy and blurry and

low-res on my monitor. But after tweaking

some of the settings, I managed to make

the display put out some display visuals

that basically looks exactly identical to

my laptop, to the point where I could plug

in my laptop and then plug in the ROG Ally

to the monitor, and I wouldn't even notice

much of a difference or any difference at

all. And it was like seamlessly switching

between the 2 devices. I could do what I

usually do exactly the same. There's no

difference at all. The ROG Ally was able

to do everything I threw at it and more,

and even play games that were stuttering

on my laptop. And to think I can do

everything that I do on my laptop on this

tiny ROG Ally when it's like a third of

the— number one, it's a third of the

price, it's only $700, whereas my gaming

laptop was over $2,000 back in 2021. And

it's also a third of the size, it weighs

like 500 grams or maybe less, like 600

grams, whereas the laptop weighs nearly 5

kg with the power brick included. It's

like 5 kg. The laptop without the power

brick is like 3.94 kg, and then you add in

the power brick, that's another 1 kg. 5 kg

going to the laptop weight alone is

insane. If you're trying to travel light

and you need to be quick on your feet and

run away when your girlfriend's

ex-husband's chasing you because he thinks

you're cheating on him when actually they

just broke up years ago, but he still

seems to think that they're still together

because he's a stupid deluded psychopath,

and he threatened to force me to come into

his car so he could take me to the

airport, but I was No, I'm gonna take my

bag and run. I had 14 kg of tech in my

backpack, 5 kg of which was that heavy

laptop which nearly got me killed. So my

advice to my future past self is do not

travel with a 17-inch heavy bulky laptop.

If you really need to game on a laptop,

then at least get a 14-inch AMD kind of

MSI gaming laptop, or maybe even the

15-inch max. Don't go over 15. 17 is

way too big. But honestly, my true-to-life

advice now would be don't get a laptop at

all. Do not travel with a laptop. You

don't laptop. If you really need to do

gaming, then get one of these portable

gaming devices. These things didn't exist

2 years ago. They only just started coming

out last year with the Steam Deck leading

the spearhead. And now that there's so

many that we are spoiled for choice when

it comes to miniature Windows 11 little

miniature handheld gaming devices that can

be converted into a big screen laptop,

just get a portable monitor or plug it

into a TV or something when you're settled

down. But if you're just arriving brand

new in a new country you can't really beat

just having a 500-gram tiny little gaming

device like a Steam Deck or ROG Ally, or

Lenovo Go is even— even that's supposed to

be a big device at 8.8 inches display.

It's still minuscule compared to a laptop.

It's so tiny, like, like this big compared

to a massive laptop. I don't think I'd

ever travel with a laptop again unless—

now I've been thinking of this new idea

recently. I'm thinking of ditching the ROG

Ally because Maybe I can survive

without gaming. I don't know if I can

actually, because sometimes I get very

bored and then I want to play some Diablo

4 or Rainbow Six, and there's nothing

really that can play those games apart

from, you know, Windows devices. I'm

thinking if I can just not play games and

do something else, like learn a new skill

or practice something useful, or just

watch something on YouTube, then I don't

need a gaming device. I wouldn't even need

the ROG Ally. And for big screen

productivity What would I use? Maybe—

well, I still need a Windows or proper

computing device because I do some video

editing and some live streaming. I need

software that is not on mobile devices

like phones or tablets. Unfortunately,

even though phones and tablets are really

powerful these days and the hardware is

really good, the software just hasn't

caught up. Streaming software and

streaming apps on mobile are rubbish

compared to what you can get on Windows or

Mac, and even gaming The hardware

is good. The iPhone 15 Pro can play

Resident Evil 4, so the hardware and the

chips are obviously powerful enough to

play really good games. But the games

available on the Android Play Store and

the iOS Store, they all suck. They're all

just stupid games like Candy Crush or 2D

rubbish-looking games made in China like

Raid Shadow Legends. They're all rubbish.

None of these games would actually

interest me unless I was like a kid or

like a person who doesn't actually play

proper games, just casual games. But I'm

not a casual gamer, I'm a hardcore PC

gamer. Those Android games on the phone

don't really appeal to me. Otherwise I

would have gotten something like the ROG

Gamer Phone or something like a more

powerful phone. But unfortunately I can't

just exist with a phone alone or a tablet.

Like, an Android tablet like the Samsung

S9 Ultra would have been great, but the

games on offer on the Android store are so

rubbish it makes me not want to get the

Android. So I'm thinking MacBook Air.

Lightweight, long battery, no power brick,

only weighs like 1 kg, probably not even

that, probably like 700 grams for the

13-inch. And it's got M2 chip, M2

processor. It's got Streamlabs for live

streaming. I can set up my live streaming

setup on the macOS. It's got proper video

editing. It's not really for gaming

though, although there is Gaming Arcade,

but I'm not really sure if I care that

much about gaming anymore. So I kind of

have 2 modes of thought right now.

I stick with the gaming, so that means I

stick with the ROG Ally, or I ditch the

gaming and I go for the MacBook Air for

productivity, or I don't even use the

MacBook Air for productivity because then

I find a way to do live streaming on my

mobile phone. Then I don't need a

computing operating system, I can just

exist with Android alone, just mobile

operating system. In that case, I'll

probably get like a Samsung Tab S8

or Tab S9 Ultra tablet for big screen

viewing and then use my phone as my main

workhorse for editing, streaming,

everything really. I still don't know,

but for now I can safely say I have

ditched all of my computing devices like

desktop computer, laptop, Switch OLED.

Everything has gone. I sold it all in

order to have the ROG Ally as my main

computing device. And as of so far, it's

been going pretty well.