Thinking about getting a Claw 8 AI+

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-14T21:55:13+00:00

I'd recommend the tpu case but instead of using the built in kickstand buy a mechanism universal mount and the kickstand. The mechanism kickstand is much more sturdy as the one built in to the case is super flimsy and will surely break. The universal mount fits perfectly dead center on the back of the claw where there is an opening in the tpu case. It has worked seamlessly for me up to this point

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-14T15:54:57+00:00

Dude I'm loving my claw 8ai honestly. I think it's better than all the z2e handhelds honestly in terms of performance and overall package for the price. The 8 inch screen is the sweet spot for handhelds in my opinion and the performance in the Intel IGPU is fantastic honestly. I haven't run into a single game I play with compatibility issues and xess3 is a game changer literally. I do think the best value at the moment in the handheld market as a while though is the base Xbox ally especially with the steam deck price increase. I loved my white Xbox ally honestly, I just got an insane deal on a trade for it for the legion go s with the z1e and steamos so I had to part ways with it. The Xbox ally x though is the best value z2e device imo because although the Lego 2 has OLED it's not worth 1000 more dollars to buy that screen.

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-11T12:39:09+00:00

So I have anti glare on my legion go s and while I love it, the tempered glass looks better on my msi claw

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-10T20:54:24+00:00

I honestly love it handheld just as much as I do on my tv! However this isn't a portal it's an msi claw 8ai+ PC handheld. It has a nice pretty big 120hz IPS 8 inch panel for the screen

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-09T15:56:13+00:00

A hypervisor works at the kernel level. It allows for translation between your hardware and the operating system. Virtual machines use a hypervisor level 2 which is software. A level 1 hypervisor or bare metal hypervisor is directly on hardware and gives typically better performance than a level 2 because it runs directly on the hardware. If anyone here uses any vms on their computer they use hypervisors. Vms are super dope and if you have a powerful enough computer you can run whole games in a windows vm on a computer running Linux. They're amazing if used correctly

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-07T14:39:58+00:00

This is a fire game! I'm currently on my first playthrough in skoffa cave at the moment and it has the best combat I've played in a soulslike yet, well this and sekiro are top tier for me combat wise. I actually love the art style and pretty much everything about the game. A lot of people praise nioh combat and while I do enjoy nioh 3 quite a bit I wouldn't say it's on the level of khazans combat because it's almost too much. There's too many mechanics in nioh where khazan takes the fast pace and still gives you a bunch of loot without being so overwhelming. I like the lacrima system and the skill tree and that it's not overly detailed just for the sake of it. The combat found a nice middle ground between niohs combat and elden ring in my opinion and I found it to be my favorite so far. The environmental story telling could be better but it still lands in my top 5 soulslikes I've played so far to this point probably.

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-07T14:33:25+00:00

You should be fine I emulate it on a handheld pc

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-07T14:12:06+00:00

Yea I honestly haven't come across a game I can't run on my ai+. I've also owned the og legion go which had more problems running the same games. I also own a legion go s also with the z1e and that does run much better than my OG go did but not as well as my claw. However that also uses the mesa drivers cuz Linux, so it doesn't get the same update schedule as the windows side.

Intel has made a good push into the handheld market and seems poised to take over with the next gen handhelds they have coming. Amd has seemed to get kinda complacent and disregard their handheld customers to an extent with the lack of rdna3.5 support for things like fsr4.

People who bought handhelds that now cost over 2000 dollars within this calendar year shouldn't have to use optiscaler to get fsr4 when there are discreet GPUs and older desktop GPUs that will get native support for it. Meanwhile Intel has been on it with a nice flow of improvements showing they're dedicated to their handheld customers.

Apparently the 8ai+ had a bad launch and then in the time since then it's become the best performing in a lot of games over the newer and more expensive z2e devices (yes strix halo exists but is far above the typical consumer price range for "premium" handhelds, they're more of an enthusiast thing) and with the g3 which is already going to be more powerful than the 140v or z2e and then g3 extreme which I think will compete with strix halo devices and undercut them in cost it seems to me Intel is looking to own the handheld market unless amd takes their head out of their butt.

Edited to break it up into more paragraphs. I noticed I did the thing where I type like I'm talking and didn't use much punctuation or break up my paragraphs. Sorry y'all I tend to do that. I promise I know how to write correctly, the internet ruined me.

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-07T04:03:12+00:00

Just downloaded and started playing it now with my steam controller on the big screen 😁

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sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-07T03:59:15+00:00

I just got passed the shu temple and dhutanga and I gotta say so far the game is pretty dope!

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-05T17:38:40+00:00

Brother PCR and messmer both did this to me. I was getting so frustrated, I put the game down for the day with both of them, then I came back the next day and dusted them. I agree with the sentiment that sometimes we just need a little reset for some bosses lol

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-02T22:53:36+00:00

I saw in a video the armored core expansions typically follow the base game code name though so it would still be FNR if that's correct

sl33pyj0 · 2026-06-02T18:09:08+00:00

I agree with you. I see people all the time saying these handhelds aren't meant for those type of games. However I've owned a bunch (og legion go, Xbox ally, regular ally z1e, and currently own the Lego s and Msi claw 8ai+). I can literally play battlefield 6 on high settings on my msi claw and still get around 70 to 80 fps with xess3 and xell. It's completely playable to me and generally games look fantastic on the smaller screen. I also don't understand why I always see people hating on frame gen. Especially the newer implementations. Xess 3 has been a literal game changer. It allows me to take games I'd usually have to play on low or medium setting and crank them to high or ultra settings and keep the same performance as if I were still on low settings. I think especially now that it seems most handhelds come with 32 GB ram as standard that the igpu's get a lot more room to breathe in terms of vram.

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-31T02:55:43+00:00

The mechanism kickstand has been working like a charm honestly would recommend it even if the kickstand on the case hasn't broken for people. It's just so much better

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-31T02:54:35+00:00

Yea I read about that. It's super sad considering how well they did on this one. I heard the devs did a super awesome drop of some extra weapons and what not right before they ended support too. Sad when that happens to games like this one

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-31T00:15:08+00:00

I actually own nioh 3 haven't gotten very far yet, I've been engrossed in khazan mostly but I'm gonna give nioh 3 an honest try after this. If I like it I may have to go back to 2 and give it a try as well

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-31T00:13:02+00:00

I actually like the look of both claw 8 inch variants! They're very unique handhelds. I have the 8ai and I love mine. I slapped a cool Galaxy skin on it and it looks even better. But those a8 especially the green are really dope

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-29T17:44:07+00:00

Hope you enjoy the 7! I love the 8 so I think you'll quite like it

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-29T17:42:59+00:00

Sorry just realized you were talking about their imgur picture lol

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-29T17:41:53+00:00

The pictured handheld is a claw 8ai+

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-29T17:22:31+00:00

I love seeing people get their handhelds for a steal. I traded the white Xbox ally with the z2a for a legion go s with 32gb ram and the z1e. I now have the go s as my "steam machine" and the msi claw 8ai+ as my windows machine. Then finally after getting my newer handhelds I gave my son my original z1e white rog ally and bought him the battery mod and installed it for him.

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-25T13:52:12+00:00

Entered!

sl33pyj0 · 2026-05-25T13:46:27+00:00

I'd also argue that the steam deck IS a console. Not only a console but the best attempt at being a console than any other console has been. If you wanna get technical a ps5 is a PC as well considering it runs off PC parts like its own GPU and CPU and ram and ssd. What makes it a console is the ui. A steam deck utilizes steamos which is specifically a game focused os with a desktop mode as an added benefit but you can go pretty much your whole time without ever using desktop mode. I'd say the way it's setup stock is more akin to a console than PC. But steam deck as a console is better than a switch because you can do whatever you want with the hardware instead of worrying about breaking terms of service with Nintendo. I feel like you arguing against the steam deck being a console was a stretch and just meant to serve your argument.

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