Portable gaming PCs were – somewhat surprisingly – a focal point of the early days Black Friday Sales at several online retailers, particularly at Amazon. Now the latest portable gaming device to get a big discount is the MSI label – it’s now available on Amazon for just $471.18 (was $749) in the United States and £498 (was £699) at Amazon in the United Kingdom.

The American agreement concerns the model which uses the Intel Core Ultra 155H processor with 16 cores and 22 threads, while the UK deal is the slightly less powerful model which uses the Intel 135H processor with 14 cores and 18 threads. Both processors feature 8 Xe GPU cores – which are more important for fast in-game performance – and overall, both models are perfectly capable of playing the latest games, although you may need to tweak your settings slightly. settings to get the best performance on the 135H. model.

Although there is a lot of work to be done on Intel’s part with XeSS scaling for gaming vs. Nvidiais the DLSS and AMDWith the FSR of, you will still be able to use it in several games (but without frame generation). However, you’ll probably find that for many games, FSR 3 is a better option, and it’s perfectly viable here because AMD has made it open source for anyone to use, regardless of hardware.

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Today’s best MSI Claw 155H deal in the United States

Today’s best MSI Claw 135H deal in the UK

As I mentioned earlier, this discount follows multiple handheld sales this Black Friday – with big discounts on the Lenovo Legion Go And a ridiculously good deal with Asus ROG Ally also appears this week.

Outside of competing handhelds, the MSI Claw easily beats any gaming phone and the Nintendo Switch in terms of raw processing power and could do the same with the Nintendo Switch2 (if the assumed specifications are true). Currently priced at $471.18 / £498, it’s certainly poised to rival any upcoming portable gaming devices in terms of value for money.

When we compare it to Asus ROG AllyThe Claw retains some advantages – for example, if you’re using a Wi-Fi 7 router, you’ll get the benefits of the device’s Wi-Fi 7 compatibility, especially when downloading larger AAA games (spoiler alert, there has plenty of those). However, it’s worth noting that in terms of pure gaming performance, the Claw isn’t quite up to par with Asus’ handheld.

Although Intel CPUs have more cores and threads, the Ally X’s Z1 Extreme has 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores, compared to 8 Xe GPU cores in the 155H. When it comes to raw performance in games, the Ally RAM are higher than the standard 16 GB.

But with that kind of discount, it’s really hard to quibble about performance differences; The ROG Ally The 155H Claw model’s MSRP price of $749 / £799 / AU$1,599 was undoubtedly a point of contention for potential customers – this price drop now makes it an affordable option alongside the ROG Ally and Valve. Steam Deck, especially when it still does a great job delivering stable frame rates at 1080p.