Let's say you were in the market for a new PC, but you couldn't afford to spend more than $700. You could go down the second hand route, though the lack of any warranties may well put you off. Lots of people go for a low-cost desktop PC with an APU—a CPU that has a decent integrated GPU. But hang on, don't all handheld PCs use an APU? They do indeed, which raises a simple question. What's worth the money, a portable PC or a desktop PC, if they're both using the same chip?
Mobile gaming PCs really took off last year, with offerings from Asus, Lenovo, OneXPlayer, and Ayaneo all trying to knock Valve off the top position for best handheld gaming PC. One thing they nearly all have in common is AMD, as the majority of models sold sport a Ryzen APU of one kind or another. The Asus ROG Ally, for example, houses the Ryzen Z1 or Z1 Extreme, which is a modified Ryzen 7 7840U laptop chip.
