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Acer Nitro Blaze 11
Handheld gaming PCs have become a bit of a thing in recent years, but you rarely see people using them out and about. There’s a feeling that these are usually sofa-bound gadgets, designed to be played while SuperSunday is on in the background or everyone else is engrossed in another episode of Silo… so what the heck, why not make one that’s massive?
Acer has fitted the Nitro Blaze 11 with a 10.95in 120Hz touchscreen, making it over 3.5in bigger than the Steam Deck. That requires a hefty amount of oomph, so inside there’s an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS processor and Radeon 780M graphics card teamed with 16GB of RAM and up to 2TB of storage.
It weighs just over a kilogram, but if your arms get tired from holding it you can detach the controllers from either side and deploy the built-in kickstand to take the load off – a bit like an incredibly powerful Nintendo Switch. That also makes it a little bit easier to transport… although, like moths around a giant lightbulb, you can expect to draw a small crowd if you pull one of these out on the train.