Switch-style Aya Neo portable gaming PC is now on Indiegogo, starting at $ 789

The Aya Neo – a Nintendo Switch-style portable gaming PC that promises to deliver a full-fledged PC gaming experience in the palm of your hands – is available now on Indiegogo, starting at HKD $ 6,120 (~ $ 789 USD) for the 500 GB mockup.

This version of the Neo is technically the second, after the limited and sold-out “Founder’s Edition” series offered by Aya in January. The new, larger version promises several improvements over this initial version, including:

• An improved operating system
• Reduced weight
• The option to toggle the rumble
• Better buttons
• Better power consumption and performance presets
• Improvements to issues causing resolution scaling issues or blurry screens

The company also introduced a new optional docking station at $ 47 that adds two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A ports, an HDMI port, an SD card slot, a MicroSD card slot, and an Ethernet jack – another one. concept similar to the switch.

The other specifications of the Aya Neo are always the same: a 7-inch 1280×800 IPS display, an AMD Ryzen 4500U 10-25W processor, 16 GB of LPDDR4x RAM, three USB-C ports and up to 6 hours of estimated battery life. life. Don’t expect to play triple-A games at high settings, but we were able to run competently Star Wars: Squadrons at 60 fps with the Founder’s Edition, and it had almost enough power to play the unfinished Valheim Ready to go.

That said, the Aya Neo is still a first-party crowdfunding product. And while it’s certainly encouraging that Aya has managed to deliver her first series of Neos Founder’s Edition, there are still the usual elements of risk when it comes to crowdfunding products – even those that are technically second-gen models. .

But if you’re ready to roll the dice, you can back the Aya Neo on Indiegogo for $ 6,120 HKD (around $ 789 US) for the 500GB model or $ 6,750 HKD (around $ 869 US) for the 1TB model, that’s about 10% off what products should sell after the crowdfunding campaign. Shipping is scheduled for May.