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Acer’s new concept hardware is a gaming handheld with a keyboard

For the last few years, PC gamers on the go have had a choice: Buy a gaming laptop, or pick up one of the many Steam Deck-inspired handhelds that are a fraction of the size but a lot less versatile. Acer's latest concept device, Project DualPlay Mini, is an attempt to upend that dichotomy by […]

Acer’s new concept hardware is a gaming handheld with a keyboard
Image: The Verge
Acer has invented… the laptop.

For the last few years, PC gamers on the go have had a choice: Buy a gaming laptop, or pick up one of the many Steam Deck-inspired handhelds that are a fraction of the size but a lot less versatile. Acer's latest concept device, Project DualPlay Mini, is an attempt to upend that dichotomy by sticking a keyboard in a handheld.

The DualPlay Mini is first and foremost a Windows gaming handheld, cut from the same cloth as Acer's existing Predator Atlas 8 (which is being joined this week by a new 7-inch model). In its default configuration, the handheld's screen is flanked by analog sticks, a D-pad, and Xbox-style ABXY face buttons, plus two tri …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Originally published at The Verge

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