 So you might have just got a Steam Deck for Christmas. Or maybe you're thinking about buying one with all that cold hard cash you got in your cards from Grandma and Grandpa this year. Well, wait! Because this is the Aeonia II and it's better than the Steam Deck in some ways. I had no idea that I was getting this. I also had no idea I'd be opening it with this. This is Bob and Bob Wolf. Also... Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. Before this video continues, there are two things you need to know. One, I show a lot of footage of playing Call of Duty Warzone 2 on this thing. Don't do it! I was actually very surprised with how well it ran. Like, I was excited to start playing this game portably. But my account got banned because I violated terms of service. I think it's something about the way the pads work with the game. It thinks I'm trying to use a mouse, but with auto aim assist, I don't know. But if you don't want your account to be banned, don't play on this. 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I loved the air. I actually really liked the air. The gifts get better and better and this time there's a whole friggin' gift box. I've never got gifts. Well, I got the keyboard. The keyboard was cool. Yeah, you did. I got it in the arm room. I'm gonna touch the clock today. Ooh, ooh, it's cute. Oh my God. It looks like they actually finally sent a dock. Every time they've ever sent me one of these consoles, they always say, we have a dock. We didn't send it though. So let's take a look at the dock. It's called the Aeonir Multi-Station because you can wiggle and jiggle the little connector point around here and the reason why they did that, Aeonir has made many friggin' consoles this year alone. My tally right now is up to four and each one is a different form factor. So I guess they decided the best thing to do is just make a dock that's universal. You can jiggle it around to fit whatever Aeonir you have. Comparing it to the Steam Deck dock, I mean they both serve their purpose but I do like that you actually dock this as opposed to whatever is happening over here with this little guy. Coffee cup. It's an Aeonir coffee cup. You're coming around. I'm coming around. You're coming around on the Aeonir. Also a screen protector, that's what it is. Okay, well, that bleep that. Ooh, it smells nice. It smells different. It was like my thumb more than anything. AMD Ryzen 7, 6,800, you cool. Oh, that's the thing. And we're done. She's coming. Oh, big old stick of butter. So you wanna do like a brunch tomorrow or something? I'd love to do a brunch. Is there brunch places in here? There actually is. Ooh. It's just sat there. That's really sleek. Oh, oh, oh, hello. That's kinda sexy. It's screaming Wii U pad vibes. Oh, it is? Yeah. You know, this isn't, it's not that much bigger. No, it's a lot bigger. It's not that much bigger. It's a lot bigger. Let's talk about how it feels to play the Aeonir 2. As far as actually playing it though and the comfortability, I like the Aeonir 2 a lot. They worked in tandem with this company that makes the King Kong 2 Pro controller. You can't get stick drift with these bad boys. At least that's the idea. Everything about it feels super quality. The biggest advantage for me is you just have the classic sticks, D-pad and buttons where they should be. I do love my steam deck. Just having the D-pad and buttons up here, it's weird. It's really hard for me to get used to. I do like these track pads, but let's be honest, we don't use them. This thing is just more straightforward, more comfortable, and probably just more what I'm used to. Also, they weigh about the same. Pretty equal. No visible screws on the 360 full body. What is that feature? I guess the other ones you can see screws, but I gotta say, now that I know that, it looks very clean. Whole piece of glass, no bezel design. That is nice, that I like that. I gotta say, the no bezel is very nice. You look at the steam deck here, it's great. I love the way it looks, but you do obviously have this bezel and then the glass smack right here in the middle. I mean, it's a classic. And there's nothing wrong with the way it looks. But this Aeonio, I don't know, man, it's pretty sleek. All this around here is glass. So there is no bezel, there's no dip, there's no groove. It's all one flush piece. The only plastic you have is rounded out here around the buttons and the sticks. It's super futuristic. Also, they gave it to me this time with windows not activated. Baby sleeping position grip. As I don't know, the picture has nothing in it. Ultra high capacity battery, we'll see. You don't get much juice out of it. Playing Elden Ring on full charge, I got about 45 minutes. Now that is a triple A game and to play it, you gotta boost everything up to pro mode so it is sucking in air. Crisis Core lasted me about an hour, about an hour and 10 minutes on full battery before I had to charge, which I mean, I guess isn't terrible. I also played Crisis Core on the steam deck to see how long I got and it was like an hour and a half on full charge before I started getting the low battery. So I mean, apples and oranges there. A good screen, it says. 1920 by 1200. But the steam deck's only 720-ish. It is a Windows device and I just turned a Windows device on, which means I gotta install things on the Windows. Which means cut. Yeah, which means cut. I would comfortably say the A and the A2 is better in many ways. The steam deck has a 1280 by 720p screen. It's not full HD, which is fine. For a handheld, I've always been okay with that. But this 1920p screen, you're able to play every game in full HD resolution. There's none of that A-listing when you try squishing down a game to 1280. It's really clean and it pops. There's a drawback here. The higher resolution you play in, the more it sucks from a console. So how does the A and the A2 hand or some of these more intensive game? Pretty good for the most part. The thing is, though, playing the games at 1920, you probably can't boost most things up to high. You're probably gonna wanna play on medium or maybe even low. But then you are losing a lot of textures and lighting and shadows when you switch it down to low. So if you wanted, you could play the games at 1280. Just set the resolution down and then boost everything up to high and you're gonna get better performance and better visuals out of the A and the A2. Really across the board. But it's kinda up to you to do all the messing around with things, to make it look as good as it can and how much does that full HD mean to you? But I've been switching back between Crysis Core on the two consoles and ultimately, the frame rates are definitely better on this, but I'm still getting a stable 30 on the Steam Deck and for the price, it is just so impressive what the Steam Deck can do. So Bob did put emulators on this thing. It was a little more convoluted, though, than we wanted it to be. So on a scale of one to 10, how fun is it to set up an A and the O, Bob? A one to 10 fun level. Well, I can't see anything. Yeah. And that makes it really fun to use all of the rest of your senses. Yeah. I think I can hear that I'm about to click on Emulation Station. Can you hear over the fan? Yeah, I can hear it. Did you say something? Can you hear over the fan? Ooh. It looks like we're somewhere. No. We're nowhere, we're nowhere. What? We were halfway there. What happened? Once he got one working, he dumped all the ROMs. This bad boy was good to go. We were playing Smash 64 and it runs like a dream. I do know that emulating on the Steam Deck is actually pretty easy. I mean, that's really one for one. People look at the price tag of the A and the O and they get blown away that it's so expensive comparatively to something like a Switch or a Steam Deck. The thing with the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch and any gaming console, they always sell their consoles at a huge loss so that you sign up to PlayStation Now and sign up to PlayStation Plus and Game Pass and Games with Gold and then you start buying their software. When all those subscriptions and softwares kick in, they're gonna make their money back triple-fold and selling the console to you that cheap doesn't matter in the long run. It's the same with Steam Deck. It only works with Steam unless you hack it. So you literally have to buy more Steam Games which is more money for Steam. A and Neo, they don't have that luxury. They don't have games, they don't sell software. Once you buy the one thing they sell, you're done. So they can't sell it at a loss. They're literally manufacturing and making PCs. But not only are you buying a PC, you're buying a pretty powerful mini PC that also has a controller built in. You're buying the screen, the speakers. You're buying everything that goes into making this little PC. If you purely are all about raw power and what you can do on the go, this is going to win every time, all the time. The battery life might be a lot shorter but it's going to be able to do a lot more. I think the whole package is very impressive. But it's Windows and it's up to you to do everything. So it's not very consumer friendly. If you want an example of that, I'll boot both up right now and try loading up Crisis Core. Here we go, Crisis Core on the A and Neo. It loads up like that every time. In a tiny little window, why? It is annoying but it's fixable. However, if you were to do it on the Steam Deck, guess what, baby? It's just going to work first time every time. You're not going to have any issues with anything on the Steam Deck. It's so easy to use. I want to keep justifying it because I mean, for half the price, I would just go with the Steam Deck. If I'm going to play one, I'm going to play this one but I don't want to pay for it. I feel like that's my opinion and outcome of every single one of these A and Nios I take a look at. They get better and better. I think they're always worth their price. If you frame your mind as in you're buying a mini portable PC that you can play, the only thing I'll say and Bob said it and I'll keep saying it, A and Neo has to slow down because they are devaluing their own product every time they put out a new one. Even though it's too rapid fire to build any trust in the product, that there won't be a better one for the same price in six months. Nintendo Switch, it's like six years outdated but people keep buying it because it's their only option and it doesn't seem like Nintendo's going to do anything different anytime soon. It just is what it is. I got all of these like last year but both of these are sick and technically the A and Neo is better than the Steam Deck but the Steam Deck just makes more sense. But I will thank A and Neo for sending me their console and I hope they keep doing it every time because I love looking at them and it's going to be hard to not play this because of how cool it is and I already have it. I just need to find a way to keep it charged longer. All right guys, if you liked this video and you like it when I review these wacky consoles smash a like, subscribe, comment down below. I appreciate you guys. I'll see you soon. Bye.