Lenovo Legion Go 2 suddenly costs $650 more as RAMageddon lays waste to gaming hardware

The Legion Go 2’s mouse mode, unique among Windows handhelds. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Remember when we thought the Legion Go 2 was expensive at $1,099 and up? Those were the days – Best Buy is now listing Lenovo’s handheld for $1,499 with a Ryzen Z2 or $1,999 with a Z2 Extreme. The latter originally cost $1,349, so that’s a $650 jump in just six months.

And yes, that means Lenovo’s flagship may now cost twice as much as a $999 Microsoft/Asus Xbox Ally X with the same AMD chip, as much as a far more powerful GPD Win 5 with AMD Strix Halo cost last year. But the way things are going, it’s probably only a matter of time till Microsoft’s handheld Xbox hikes its price too. (For now, Asus rep Anthony Spence tells me there’s “no pr …

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