This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I ordered mine on new egg, and received it on March 11th. Today is March 24th. As of today they haven’t addressed any of the following, and I have returned the claw. My privacy settings would randomly get reset to share with MSI. The factory button combinations for opening the keyboard and task manager would randomly be swapped for ingame button macros. The keyboard rarely comes up shen it should, and games crashed a lot, so this was an issue for me. I benchmaked the claw, steam deck oled, legion go, and ally. The claw was about on par with the steam deck. The legion go, and ally ran much better. Some games I couldn’t run at all on the claw because of driver incompatability or not enough vram. Physically, the screen is nice, the joysticks are nice, the top buttons are awful, the speakers vibrate the whole device, and the fancy ventillation on the back is mostly fake. There are only 2 silver dollar sized vents in the back that are actually open for air to pass through. The rest of the “venting” has a back panel blocking it off.
