In 2023, we were surprised by the sheer amount. Lenovo’s Legion Goa giant Windows gaming handheld that weighs 1.88 pounds and measures 11.8 inches wide. But in 2026, Ayaneoha Next II handheld details announcedthis is Lenovo’s big name, but it offers heavier specs and a higher price than most other Windows gaming handhelds.

Let’s focus on bulk first. The Ayaneo Next II weighs a really wrist-heavy 3.14 pounds, making it more than twice as heavy as the Steam Deck OLED in your hand (not to mention) Original Ayane Next in 2022its weight is a much more reasonable 1.58 pounds). According to , the absolute unit measures 13.45 inches wide and 10.3 inches tall. Ayaneo spec sheetIt has an approximately 60% larger footprint than the Switch 2 (with Joy-Cons attached).

However, Ayaneo packs some seriously powerful portable PC performance into this much capacity. The high-end version of the system is equipped with a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset with 16 Zen5 cores and a Radeon 8060S with 40 RDNA3.5 compute units. This should give you this massive portable performance that rivals RTX 4060-equipped desktops and gaming laptops. Last year’s high-end ROG Flow Z13.

Ayaneo isn’t the first hardware manufacturer to package the Max+ 395 chipset into a Windows gaming handheld. of OneXPlayer OneXfly Apex and GPD Win5 Featuring essentially the same chipset, the latter has an external battery pack. But the Next II impressively outperforms its (smaller and lighter) competition with its high-end 9.06-inch OLED screen capable of 2400×1504 resolution, up to 165Hz refresh rate, and 1,155 nits of brightness.