OneXPlayer OneXFly handheld PC review: My new portable Baldur's Gate 3 machine.
I will say, it's not cheap. And that's where the Steam Deck still holds sway over any handheld being launched at the moment. So, the specs are good, the slim bezel screen is neat, and the performance right up there.
I'm also liking the physical design of the thing. It's certainly thick, but the overall footprint is far smaller than either Deck or Ally, and that makes it something I'm far more likely to just drop into a bag when I head out the door. It also feels good in the hand. The rubberised coating feels grippy without feeling sticky—it's kinda like how I imagine Batman's cowl would feel—and even this black version isn't the fingerprint magnet I was expecting it to be. I will say, it's not cheap. And that's where the Steam Deck still holds sway over any handheld being launched at the moment. They may have higher specs, but when you can pick up a low-end Deck, swap in a cheap high-capacity 2230 SSD for around $400, that puts it far more in second-machine territory than the $739 price tag of the lowest spec version of the OneXFly. At that price, it's a primary machine. It's the only one you use. Can it replace your laptop? That's a toughie. If we're just talking gaming, then 100%. You've got a wee thing to take around with you to play practically any PC game on, and then when you get home it has the power to make an effective desktop PC when you dock it into a screen, mouse, and keyboard. But it's not like you're going to be able to take notes on your OneXFly in class, or rock up to a business meeting and easily run a PowerPoint presentation without looking like a proper tool. It's a great little device, though. I still love the huge 8-inch screen of the A1 Pro, and its beefy battery, but it's massive. The OneXFly is a genuinely portable, genuinely powerful handheld, with a whole lot of versatility baked into it. I don't love the software, not in the way I've recently become rather enamoured with the AYASpace, and Windows certainly has its quirks. But I couldn't go back to the Steam Deck now, and the ROG Ally, SD card issues aside, feels too limited for me.Read our review policyThe OneXFly may not be the smallest of the new handheld gaming PCs around, but it's getting close to that Nintendo Switch aesthetic, and is a lovely gaming machine all the same. It's powerful, versatile, and feels great in the hands.Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 . He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
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