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Marc Saltzman’s “Tech It Out” holiday push with News Media Group and ASUS deploys a classic broadcast playbook — a nationwide Satellite Media Tour (SMT) of short, local TV segments — to promote Windows 11 upgrades, ASUS Copilot+ laptops, and the new ROG Xbox Ally handhelds as top holiday tech...

Yesterday’s November cumulative for Windows 11, shipped as KB5068861, has triggered a small but noisy set of community reports — including one detailed Reddit post alleging sudden black screens, locked brightness, and repeated driver failures after the update installed mid-game — prompting fresh...

Microsoft’s handheld moment has finally arrived: the ROG Xbox Ally X pairs ASUS’ ROG handheld engineering with Microsoft’s Xbox front end to deliver a Windows 11 portable that promises console‑grade controls and near‑desktop PC power — but it still arrives with software rough edges, library...

From the moment I unboxed the ROG Xbox Ally X, I reached for the settings I knew would shape my handheld experience: performance, display fidelity, battery life, and the small annoyances Windows 11 can bring to a device designed for pure play. Pocket‑lint’s quick checklist of “five settings I...

Asus’ ROG Xbox Ally family has become the testing ground for a new, telling thesis in handheld PC gaming: on the same hardware, a lean, SteamOS‑style Linux image can deliver noticeably smoother gameplay than the Windows 11 image the device ships with — in some cases producing double‑digit...

Microsoft’s October roll-up for Xbox and PC brings a rare combination of hardware-ready system features, cloud expansions, and platform-side refinements that promise faster first‑play launches, better cloud reach, and a more handheld‑friendly Windows experience — but the real impact will depend...

Microsoft’s gaming leadership has now publicly confirmed that the next major Xbox console will be a first‑party, Xbox‑designed device — a move that locks Microsoft back into the hardware race even as the company experiments with premium Windows‑based handhelds and a deeper co‑engineering pact...

The first time you boot the Xbox full‑screen experience on an original ROG Ally, it looks and feels like someone quietly replaced Windows with a console‑style launcher — but the reality is both more pragmatic and more interesting: Microsoft layered a controller‑first Xbox shell on top of Windows...

A high-profile YouTuber has demonstrated that the ROG Xbox Ally X can feel and, in narrow cases, benchmark better when it’s running a lean Linux gaming distribution instead of Windows 11 — but the test that made headlines did not use Valve’s official SteamOS and left out several real-world...

ROG Xbox Ally X: Why it’s often faster without Windows 11 — and what that means for buyers Subheadline: Community testing (and an enthusiast video) show Bazzite / SteamOS-style Linux can reduce shader hitching and raise sustained frame rates on the Ally X — sometimes by as much as ~30% — but the...

ASUS’ Xbox‑branded ROG Ally family just landed in the middle of one of PC gaming’s oldest debates: is Windows the only sensible OS for portable PC gaming, or can a Linux‑based stack like Bazzite deliver a better, cleaner handheld experience? A recent test that ran the ROG Xbox Ally hardware with...

I swapped an hour of pre-bed doom‑scrolling for five minutes of ball‑bouncing, and it quietly changed how I sleep, how I game, and how I treat my phone at night — all because of two things: a charming indie called BALL x PIT and a new class of handheld PC, the ROG Xbox Ally. What started as a...

Xbox president Sarah Bond’s offhand line that the “next‑gen console is going to be a very premium, very high‑end, curated experience” pulled a bright spotlight onto two simultaneous truths about Microsoft’s hardware strategy: Xbox is still building consoles, and it’s thinking about them very...

Microsoft’s recent public comments and the Ally partnership with ASUS have pulled back the curtain on a hardware strategy that is at once expansive, pragmatic, and risk-laden — Xbox is clearly not walking away from building consoles and devices, but the path forward will increasingly mix...

ASUS and Microsoft’s ROG Xbox Ally lands as a pragmatic reimagining of the Windows handheld: a compact, controller‑first device that ships with Windows 11 and a purpose‑built, full‑screen Xbox experience designed to make PC gaming feel like a console without giving up Windows’ openness. The...

Customizing Windows 11’s system sounds is a fast, high‑impact way to make your PC feel personal and less noisy — and it’s simpler than most users expect. In this guide you’ll get a concise, step‑by‑step walkthrough for changing system and notification sounds, re‑enabling the classic...

Update 2.2 for DOOM: The Dark Ages lands with a clear handheld-first focus, adding Steam Deck verification, a new handheld autodetect mode, per-device settings, and explicit performance targets for the latest wave of Windows gaming handhelds — a major step that finally makes the game...

dBrand’s Killswitch is now available for the Xbox‑branded ROG Ally family — and for the first time the accessory carries an official Xbox certification while bringing the single most useful missing feature for one‑piece handhelds: a built‑in kickstand combined with grippy, protective rubberized...

ASUS and Microsoft’s Xbox-branded ROG Xbox Ally X raises the bar for Windows handhelds by delivering a rare combination of raw performance, refined ergonomics, and an ecosystem push that intentionally treats Windows like a handheld-first platform — but the product still exposes the hard truth...

Asus’s new ROG Xbox Ally family may be built to put Xbox gaming in your hands, but storage remains the first bottleneck most buyers will hit — and the easiest, lowest-friction way to break that bottleneck is a microSD card. Windows Central’s recent roundup of “best microSD cards for the Xbox...