Currently we can consider the portable consoles as one of the devices that have managed to revolutionize the video game market, and the launches of the Steam Deck and the Asus ROG Ally have caused a call effect that has forced many companies to create their own consoles. In this case, Antec has one that offers a series of quite striking differences, allowing users to get a portable console completely new for much less than other models.
One of the great advantages offered by portable consoles The advantage of this is that they are perfect for playing any game wherever we want in the most comfortable way possible, something that we couldn’t do with a laptop, for example. But the prices can be extremely high in certain situations, which makes them very difficult to access, which is a good reason why certain companies have chosen to offer less performance at a more affordable price, as is the case with Antec.
A portable console that comes with great new features
There are times when a product may seem really interesting to us because of the number of changes it makes when incorporating various features that we do not see in other models, and in this case, the Core portable console HS of Antec It is one of the ones that can draw our attention the most. In general, this new device has a series of implementations that we cannot find in any other product that offers a similar use, and what most differentiates this console from the others is its format.
This design is extremely peculiar as it is reminiscent of a Nintendo Switch Lite, moving away from the large size of the models we can currently find of this type of device, but implementing an additional function that allows the screen to move up and tilt up to 30 degrees. And we can ask ourselves why we want to do this, the answer is quite simple, and it is that in addition to allowing us to adjust the angle of the monitor to be as comfortable as possible, by moving the screen we can use the built-in keyboard that the console has.
On the other hand, the specifications it has are not a weak point, since it incorporates a Ryzen 7 7840U, one of the most used processors in this field due to the great capacity it has to move any type of game. This when combined with the 16 GB or 32 GB of LPDDR5X RAM at 7500 MHz that it has, along with an M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 SSD that we can change in case we need more space, it offers us extremely high quality, although as we can imagine, all the graphic performance will depend on the Radeon 780M iGPU that the CPU incorporates.
But what draws our attention the most is how affordable the product is, and we are used to seeing consoles of this type with prices above €600 and €700, but this one from Antec is much cheaper in comparison.
The first model, which would include 16 GB of RAM, along with a 512 GB SSD, is priced at €500 (VAT included), while the model with 32 GB of RAM and 2 TB of storage costs €682 (VAT included), but also includes a carrying case, a tempered glass screen protector, high-performance thumbsticks and a Multi Docking station as it is a special promotion for the launch of the console.