The Ayaneo 2S Is The Best Ad For The Steam Deck 

if bringus sticker pack 0 is so good why isn't there a bringus sticker pack 0 2. checkmate liberals

Madd respect for putting out this despite almost certainly backlisting yourself from future review units. Unbiased reviews like this are critical. Thank you.

Ayaneo: "Do not mention this mail in the video" Me: "Aaaaaaaaaand thats another untrustworthy company to add to the list''

Steam Deck "killers" that burn through your wallet are a dime a dozen, but ones that also burn through your hands ? Now that's new.

the fact that you ignored their please to not share the issues and reported on it honestly despite being given a free sample shows a lot of integrity. i like your channel and its always nice to see this!

Thank you, seriously, thank you. Honestly is something that doesn't exist in this space. I bought the AN2 that had wonky thumbsticks, a hot screen, loud fans and eventually, a dead ssd. In their Discord, tonnes of people had the same issues, I left a comment on a RU-vidrs video (that I trusted) about my issues and he replied, letting me know that his second unit had suffered some of the same issues (The IPS bleed) but the third was fine. (the third being the one he made the highly positive review about) AYANEO telling media to "not talk about it, don't worry, we'll send better devices to paying customers" is nonsense and frankly scammy. In the end Aya ghosted me and I never received my replacement. 👎

Thank you for your brutally honest review! For now ill be keeping my Steamdeck. What I fear the most with these devices... these companies pump out 2-3 new handhelds a year. I feel that they will abandon this handheld as soon as the 3s comes out leaving the users with the 2s stuck with no more updates and bug fixes. I have watched the steam deck grow into a very usable device and there is a huge community behind it.

One of the worst things with the touch screen that hot is that you will likely get ghost inputs. Phones often get those while under heavy load.

50C is more than enough to damage most LCDs, laptop screens don’t really allow operating above that limit per specs because it can damage them. Some of the ROG laptops with ergolift blow hot air at the LCDs and it ends up damaging them. The system running that hot is almost guaranteed to damage or kill the LCD over time

As we all know, the best x86-64 handheld is the SteamDeck, and the best SteamDeck variant is the slightly damaged Value Village Lenovo G450. So if any x86-64 handheld costs more than $7.99, I'll call the cops to report their robbery.

Cheers to you for being a real one and not bowing to a company going "Pwease don't wive us bad pwess" This is another nail in the already well-sealed coffin. What both people and corporations don't get is that the Deck succeeded because it's tailor-made for it's task, raw power means jack if the software is bad. And that's where they fail the most, nothing yet is a real "Deck competitor" until the whole package measures up. Also, the open source nature of the software making things work allows for faster improvement

The trimble yuma is still better though, the yuma is peak gaming

First time I’ve seen a RU-vid actually criticize something they got for free. Props on you 👍

It's easy, just water cool it. It's not hard. Linus does it all the time.

The conclusion is perfect. Valve hit it out of the park with their hardware even if it doesn't excel at everything. Perfect cost to performance ratio and they actually care about supporting Linux.

For future reference, Ctrl + 1 and Ctrl + 2 open the steam and three dot menu thing respectively. Similarly Guide + A on a Xbox controller opens up the Steam menu too. Not that it helps you too much without having to plug in an external keyboard on this thing

For a while there I almost thought I moved too fast buying a Steam Deck. The longer we get to look at the Windows handhelds, the more it seems like the Steam Deck is the most finished of these products. I’m happy with my Steam Deck

I am grateful of your honest review. When a company like AYANEO puts out devices every two months, these quality control, customer support, and communication blunders are going to take low priority. Your burned a bridge but gained my trust, amongst many others.

Fun fact, the Xbox button IS the same as the Steam button, but in order for that to work you have to completely remove all Xbox applications from Windows (i.e. game bar)

I had an original Windows Surface that would get hot on the touch screen and ended up with same kind of screen damage. It started subtle like in the video, got brighter, got orange and eventually just looked like a burn mark on the side of the screen. I really doubt they are going to do anything about it before shipping to actual customers.

So happy to see a person who actually critique these hand-helds instead of blindly singing their praises (ahem certain big tech review guy who shills these guys A LOT). Good on you bro, earned a new sub!

Wow. At first I was like, “Time for ya boy to eat, ballin’ with that premium handheld action.” But as this video wore on, I was like, “Yikes.” Thanks for taking us along on your wacky computer adventures. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but you delivered an insightful, diligent, uniquely bringus level perspective on this device, one that is necessary for those considering the eye-watering purchase. Been a long time filthy casual, but clicking that subscribe button now. Bravo, brother. Yep, just went Hulk Hogan on you.

The bleed from the right side could also be because the device uses an inverted panel. As you saw when loading an OS on it, it defaulted to portrait. There's a good odds it's edge lit from the bottom side as well.

Subscribed. I like that you went out of your way, likely pissing off Ayaneo and possibly burning that source, to explain in detail the issue you found. Ya held nothing back, despite them asking. I'm not an Ayaneo owner, but I have pondered buying one, a Steam Deck, or GPD Win in the past. This is interesting... I wonder how they'll respond. The *SMART* thing to do would be to overnight a "fixed" retail unit, if such a thing exists. And even then, the fact that they didn't admit it to be a known issue is deeply concerning. If they *DID* know and didn't want to admit it, that's also deeply concerning. In short, everything here is a deeply concerning and you're a boss for not holding back punches.

Disappointing. to be fair if it's a pre production device then maybe this is fixed in production ones but the resolve for that is definitely *not* telling you not to mention it in the video and should be more like "feel free to mention it but we'll send you a production one when they're ready and you can provide an update". Always rubs me the wrong way when companies try to strongarm creators into leaving out info like this and I can't help but feel like they wouldn't have the balls to tell a larger channel like LTT to leave something like this out. I respect your willingness to keep it in and probably torch your relationship with them as a reviewer who can get media devices in future though! EDIT: I didn't think it'd get worse when I left this comment but I watched more and.... those temperatures are insanely not good! what on earth.... I really hope they fix stuff in production models but this is pretty concerning.

I had a zune on my desk, so thank you for using it as a standard frame of reference

According to what I found, the Steam Deck charger does 45W, and the Ayaneo 2S charger might do 65W for itself and the other 35W is for the other ports

Having bought a Ryzen 6800H laptop that is too thin for it's own good, I can confirm, these chips are awesome and truly powerful but you can't beat physics of heat dissipation and will hit thermal throttling FAST. The 7000 series (depending on the model because few are 6000 rebadged) are a bit better but man, they are still 6 or 8 cores with 30W+ TDP SoCs. The Steamdeck is beefier with a much less powerful SoC of 15W, no wonder why it's still the king despite having 4 Zen2 cores and 8 RDNA2 CU.

The accordion sound effect was a great addition. You should put on every video for anything that would make any kind of sound.

You looked like Mac from Always Sunny in the reflection and then I got hit with that incredible music number. 10/10 subscrib

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

"something something SSD" BRINGUS STUDIOS DOESNT EVEN NEED AUTOTUNE🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

OMG I ALMOST BOUGHT THIS UNIT. Thank you for this honest review. After sales is very important in my opinion, and their response to your concerns (trying to give bs excuses) to me, shows how they would respond to actual customer complaints. Well i guess it’s just Ally vs Steamdeck for me. Or maybe i’ll watch a few more of your videos.

Absolutely Fantastic Review. I bought Ayaneo 1S Geek because I was superhyped, after watching many "reviews" from famous youTubers (who review handhelds). What literally NOBODY mentioned was: - "steam" / "xbox" button does NOT work properly, it is simply some kind of WIN+G shortcut or something like that. As a reason you cannot 100 % mimmick Steam OS behaviour (sidebar open when navigating being outside of the game AND showing some options / sidebar when being in game - this literally means - if game does not have "QUIT GAME" button / option, you cannot quit game, unless you explicitly map one of other buttons to do ALT+F4). The only way you can make it probably work is to install additional software that "turns off" original controller and replaces it with virtual one / mappable. But this is rather serious hmm adjustment, that most probably will have downside especially when using ie. emulators. - drivers thing on windows. To be fair this is probably AMD issue. None of these windows handhelds have official drivers. Each manufacturer has some kind of preview / adjusted Ryzn 7840U drivers. You cannot install official drivers. As a result, I for example, don't have adrenaline software at all. Drivers updated but Adrenaline can't be opened ;p I'm not bothered to be fair - it's just a not that some future updates may be an issue. On Steam Deck it just updates :) - windows is also quite heavily configured, adjusted. Yea, it's okay as windows has tons of services, but at the same time, sometimes it's just too big, and prevents some things to be done. Judging by Reddit threads, some weird issues were only solves after doing full reinstall windows, settings up everything on your own etc. Again, no a big issue, but on Steam Deck I don't need to think about such things. - my device had issues when turned off. You literally ... couldn't turn it on (even if you do "long press"). As a result, when I turn it off, I probably just go somewhere, wait, I don't know 30 mins, 1 hour. Yea, probably I could ship it back, but i decided that ... ok, I can live with that. Probably my unit is hmm a bit tricky. - buttons that can be mapped are hmm working in a different way than Steam Deck buttons on Steam OS. Perfect example is streaming locally via ie. Moonlight / Sunshine. If I map one button in Windows, in Ayaneo to do ALT+F4 (quit program), it will literally close the whole Moonlight client , which results in a big mess on a host computer :) On Steam Deck buttons are bettter integrated - the buttons are ... a controller. This means that they operate WITHIN a program. So, If I map "quit" / "ALT+f4" button there, it does NOT close whole moonlight - it closes that app / game that is ran within. This gives so much more consistent behaviour in terms of UI / UX. It's just Steam Deck buttons are "real controller" buttons, while all these windows handhelds buttons are just keyboard shortcuts. - weight. STeam Deck is so much lighter. Not a big deal ? Well, play a game for an hour or two and you'll see a difference :) At first, I was very angry. Literally none of the RU-vidrs mentioned honestly how much better, smooth, consistent Steam OS / Deck is compared to all these windows handhelds. I felt like I wasted 800 $. Luckily, after a week or something, I managed to configure things to some kind of an "accepted" level. Sure, windows system gives some benefits: - you can play mmorpg / online / launcher games much more easily - you can play "non-working" on Steam Deck games. - you can mod games much more easily - this is very important if you like to ie. mod Fallout 4, Fallout New Vegas, GTA V etc. - i can configure AyaNeo easily via Chrome Remote Desktop very easily and nicely. Two clicks and I see AyaNeo screen / desktop on my desktop computer. This is REALLY good. BUT unfortunately you are the minority. Nobody talks about the issues that many windows handhelds have. Sure, the CPU is better. Actually this difference makes reallu quite a lot of bigger games more playable BUT overall, I would say that spending 700-800 $ for a Steam Deck replacement is not worth. It's just after many youTube reviews, I expected silky smooth experience while the reality is more like battle from many years ago between IOS and Android. Steam Deck = iPhone, Windows handhelds = Android 3.0 ;p (and I'm saying this as android fan :) ).

For reference, a first degree burn is usually caused by exposure to temperatures between 110°F (43.3°C) and 115°F (46.1°C) for a *short* duration. Not only is there a chance you could get first degree burns on that thing; but that chance is actually quite high

Great review, thank you for not hiding the issues and being honest, and the reason i click on your videos is that not only your editing and humor clicks with me, it's extremely satisfying to see you mess around with hardware and do goofy stuff with them, your content is pretty unique and you post quite often for the amount of effort you put for your videos so yeah man, i'm glad you're not experiencing burnout because man you put a lot of time and your sanity to make things happen with the hardware and software you work with, thanks a lot!

Recently discovered this channel, and I absolutely love it 😂 I know nothing about technology but I enjoy this regardless

Came for the thumbnail. Stayed for the tunes. Great overview. While not a device I'm after, I love keeping up the space for my future Ally/Steamdeck replacements

the size reference with the priv was actually really helpful. Those were boss phones!

You give me Dankpod style vibes and i like that. The moment i saw the Zune I knew Id enjoy your content. Got a new sub~

We need more folks like you sharing the information that isn't sponsored or watered down! I learned the hard way listening to big influencers on RU-vid regarding the ROG Ally and told myself I would only listen to reviews from smaller channels. My device came yesterday and haven't opened it yet and not sure what I want to do with it either now. But thank you for this honest review!!

Bringus, the "Xbox Button" was probably running Win + G which is the bind to open the game bar, and the game bar can be disabled from the settings.

I mentioned the light bleed issue and got the same response. I have many handehelds without this issue. Shouldn't have to turn down the brightness to avoid bleed.

I watched another review of a recent handheld that the factory "overclocked" before they sent to the reviewer in order to position the device as a better performer and then the retail unit did not perform as well but did not get as hot. I wonder if this is the case with your unit.

wow the size comparisons really worked well, im so glad my first-gen Zune came in handy for more than a paperweight this time :)

big fan of the mini mixed beat near the beginning. felt like an anime intro, you can't just skip it. very welcomed

The song breakdown killed me, that was *glorious*

Excellent video. Love the format too! Informative and entertaining. Potential owners of these Chinese handhelds should know what they’re getting into when they buy these devices. GPD as well. Their devices look nice and offer a tremendous amount of performance for a handheld but good luck getting any type of coherent support for it if ever needed. And expect a hefty shipping label if you need to RMA it across the world. Valve and iFixit support for the Steam Deck is a godsend for that device.

Love your honesty man. Wish more RU-vidrs were like this. There's a lot of RU-vidrs that promote a product to keep a good relationship with the manufacturer and don't give an honest review. Happy I bought the ROG Ally over all these other brands. I'll probably get a Steam Deck too!

I really respect your attention to detail and everything you tried to do and everything you broke down about the conversation transparency between you and the company I think this is a very extensive detailed perfectly done hopefully the retail unit will be better but this has been a definite help to the consumer thank you keep up the good work I know that it's a lot of work

FYI: Under WIndows 11's GAMING setting you can set game bar to not be mapped to XBOX Button

Really appreciate your honesty man. I knew I chose a good favorite tech channel. Even without the heat issues that lightbleed was pretty agregious. For now ill stick to my Yuma as my one and only gaming choice. It's Yuma or Nothin'.

You are really entertaining my dude, Thank you, keep doing what you’re doing.

Was talking to an electrical engineer friend about this vid, and he suggested there might be a short circuit near where the heat is. That could explain why it got so hot even at low TDPs

*Doesn’t update the kernel* “I don’t get it. It says it’s compatible but it’s not working!”

8:15 I've seen this before when playing around with some Japanese fonts. The character that gets printed with the apostrophe key on English keyboards will inexplicably have a load of extra space following it. Edit: bro threw away his Chromium for another Chromium

I love the portal and portal 2 soundtracks used in your videos so much! They're always a bop to hear just outta nowhere when you finally realize that's what you're hearing.

Big respect for your honest review man, it's rare nowadays to see that

The Steam Deck really is the sweet spot of price to performance. Good QA and thoughtful design methodology from hardware to software/UX is all top-notch... And while I think there is still room for improvement, the bar is set high: I don't really understand why anyone would buy from a company called AYANEO and expect anything good. Valve continues to hurt it's own bottom line by refusing to rollout official sale and support for Steam Decks in many places internationally: Just one of the many reasons why companies like AYANEO can continue to exist, even if they make half-baked products.

Am I the only person that has caught on to the fact this guy seems to start a video complaining about minor annoyances on windows, then says "screw this let's install Linux" only for him to go through multiple distros dealing with multiple serious problems and searching continuously for solutions to these problems online to just barely get things working and never come to any kind of solid realization about the irony of what's happening?

most big product review channels always lie about sponsored products! God bless you for being honest to audiences

I really appreciate the among us sticker being thrown in there. Really helped with grasping the size of the device

13:40 I'm getting a company-issued laptop on Monday for my first job. Thinking about coming to work on Tuesday morning with that sticker on it lol

My Steam Deck runs all my favorite retro games and modded Minecraft. I can't ask for more

Thank you for the honest review. I have an Ayaneo Air 5560u and it has the exact same heating problems. The screen and the area around it gets dangerously hot with light use. Mine is a retail unit so this is clearly a design problem. It is crazy to see the big youtubers keep praising Ayaneo devices and none of them mention the heat issues. It is specially crazy when now we know it isn't limited to just one model. It is the main issue with their consoles and the fact they tried to prevent you from making this public is just wrong.

I owned a Blackberry Priv so that size comparison was useful, thank you. I miss that phone and wish either that it was useful today (ancient android version) or that another manufacturer would give that form factor a go.

Bro that remix slapped! I did not expect that whatsoever. 😂

I bought the Ayaneo 2s and I have been loving it. I can make a grilled cheese, egg I've even cooked a juicy steak with it. 10/10 the best portable stovetop money can buy.

EDIT: I saw you press B in the video and it didn't' enable the gamepad.. I'll look into this. The gamepad has a sleep mode, press B to turn on the gamepad, don't constantly reboot the system. I didn't even know you could do that.

Amazing transparency bro have to sub entirely for that

4:18 BRO. Work of a true musician. That jaunt had me movin.

"Dislikes edge" "Uses Chrome instead" What

Genuinely interested. What happens to the device after you've reviewed it if you don't care to keep them for yourself? Do you have to send it back to supplier or is it yours to pass on?

THANK YOU, now this is a real and honest review. Saved me from even considering this device and likely any AN produces bc they themselves dont want to be honest and sweep things under the rug. This shows how unreliable they’ll be for after purchase support for a regular customers

That is a 90mm noctua fan. Likely from the low profile, low noise model I can't recall the name of. I have one, good fan and the heatsink is great too.

I knew most of the response was gonna be BS the MOMENT they started the email thread with "Hi Dear" THIS IS A BRAND!!!...not Grandma!!

Thats the problem with these chinese companies that pop out 2 or 3 handhelds a year, the qc isnt 100% and the support stops as soon as the next itteration comes out. One reason i have bought 3 steamdecks for myself and family is because the software and aftermarket support is so good, and only getting better... Im gonna hold out till valve releases a gen 2 deck, hopefully sometime soon.

for the record gamescope-session-git from the aur is basically what steamos is. it's just a special gamescope session.

What’s funny is the Mario no synced perfectly with my screen time running out

Why didn't you test the games on Windows? I was super curious as to what kind of performance we can expect from this device when it runs as it's expected.

Everybody gangsta until OUYA makes handheld

quick life hack, since you dont have feeling in your nails, you can use them on a burning hot touch screen, results may vary

I was entertained by your other "joke-y" video, but this vid what makes me decide to subscribe. Thank you for the honest review, we really need more like you in this platform.

this is the thing why the steam deck will be and remain to solid choice, cost, quality and support

Microsoft needs to make a handheld specific version of windows

I have a GPD Win 4 and nearly the entire back is a giant grille and fan, so I’m not surprised there’s heat issues with that thing, there’s barely any venting comparatively.

Bringus, fantastic review! I probably speak for the whole community when I say thanks for your honesty 👌🎯. AYANEO have proven time and time again that their customer support is non-existent. If that’s how they treat collab partners, imagine how they treat customers who pay for this thing. The AYANEO 2 was prone to shell cracking due to the heat, they claimed the 2S would run cooler so as to avoid that…. Doesn’t seem to be the case. I sincerely hope they improve in two departments - QA, better hardware testing during development, better software (and translation) and customer support. They have a way to go!

Bro aya neo is never gonna send you something again 💀💀💀 especially since you showed the email

Like many others have said, you might have burned a pretty significant bridge here (in fact, you might have burned a few if other companies watch this and think you'll pack their products), but what you did gain....... was my respect, and the respect of many others clearly. In fact, i've probably been watching your content for a while, but this is the video that made me subscribe. Seeing someone on RU-vid being this honest at the expense of free hardware and potential sponsorships is rarer than a conservative black woman in San Francisco.

Love your videos, they are very funny

Bro your editing skills are damm good

Appreciate the Zune for size comparison. I can actually discern size with that lol

Not gonna lie the pressed hamburger joke got me rollin.

They sent you one, expecting some advertising from you. Instead, they got their product torn to shreds.

The sideways screen thing is because they're mostly tablet screens, whose native orientation is vertical. In software it gets rotated back, but before that's set up the computer thinks it's supposed to be vertical. Also if you turn Vsync on it syncs horizontally, and if you turn it off then tearing is arseways too 🙃

Oh wew, that's a honest review for sure, thank you for this!

I wonder if your unit specifically is defective, though? They should've brought it up on their email at least

Dude this man made an entire hip hop jam and randomly dropped it in the middle of the video, we stan a f****g legend Also I kindof prefer the size of the Steam Deck, because it's very comfortable to hold naturally. The grips are nice and deep and the size of the Steam Deck lets me hold it with my hands about shoulder length apart, which feels super comfortable. Valve did a really good job with the Deck, it's a really hard device to beat for me.

The Something Something SSD song was completely unexpected and it made me happy. This is the type of stuff I love in a video!

Note that if you give Windows a lot of space, you can install games that dont have linux ports on that space so that both OSs can play the game. This is because while linux can read Windows-formatted partitions, Windoes cannot read Linux partitions. So by installing on windows, you install the game for both OSs at the same time. If a game has a linux port however, installing that game from Windows would download the Windows version so it wouldn't ve fair for Linux to run the game using Proton.