The success of Valve’s Steam Deck console has plainly inspired various makers of video gaming hardware to attempt their luck with portable video gaming systems. Among such business is MSI, which presented its Claw portable console at CES. The Claw A1M mobile console utilizes Intel’s newest Core Ultra ‘Meteor Lake’ platform together with Windows 11 os and works with the large bulk of PC video games.
MSI’s Claw video game console is geared up with a 7-inch touch-enabled IPS LCD show with a 1920×1080 resolution, a 120 Hz refresh rate, and an as much as 500 nits normal brightness (which belongs to luminance of premium laptop computers), which resembles what Asus ROG Ally provides. When it comes to audio, the video gaming gadget comes geared up with 2 2W speakers.
The Claw A1M console is powered by Intel’s newest Core Ultra 155H ‘Meteor Lake’ system-on-chip with 6 high-performance cores, 8 energy-efficient cores, 2 low-power cones, and an integrated Arc GPU with 8 Xe tiles (1024 stream processors, 8 ray tracing systems). The processor is coupled with 16 GB of dual-channel LPDDR5-6400 memory and an SSD in an M.2-2230 form-factor in addition to a PCIe Gen4 x4 user interface.
To make sure constant efficiency of the system under high loads, MSI equipped it with a cooling system including a number of heat pipelines and 2 fans. Remembering that the processor has actually a minimum ensured power of 20W and a processor base power of 28W, it certainly requires correct cooling. That cooling system naturally includes rather some weight, which is why the console weighs 675 grams.
On the connection side of matters, MSI’s Claw definitely does not dissatisfy as it includes an Intel Killer BE1750 Wi-Fi 7 + Bluetooth 5.4 adapter, a Thunderbolt 4 port (which naturally supports a DisplayPort output and charging ability), a microSD card reader, and an audio jack for headsets.
When it comes to ergonomics, MSI’s Claw has a normal set of controllers, consisting of 2 sticks, a D-Pad, bumpers, ABXY buttons, and activates. In addition, MSI equipped its Claw with macro buttons, to make playing video games that need difficult mixes on the controller much easier.
MSI states that its Claw can work for as much as 2 hours from its 53 Wh battery, which is something to anticipate provided the processor it utilizes and capability of the battery. Maybe, those who wish to take pleasure in longer video gaming sessions while on the go will require to get an external battery and utilize the TB4 port to charge the console quickly.
2 distinguishing characteristics of MSI’s Claw portable video game console is MSI’s Center M devoted user interface that offers simple access to video games in addition to App Gamer that permits to play Android video games on the Windows 11 gadget. There are naturally comparable emulators offered for all Windows PCs, however a minimum of MSI pre-installs the gamer by default.
In the meantime, MSI stays tight lipped about prices and launch date for its Claw portable video game console.