Xbox Ally X Impressions

So I went ahead and bought the Xbox Ally X and I’m fairly impressed how far high end portable gaming has come. It feels insane playing some of my previous Xbox Play Anywhere games I had and just taking them wherever I want. It’s so fun. My main complaint is if we’re really moving to this windows footprint they need to absolutely do more to separate the Xbox experience from windows. I spent about 3 hours downloading windows updates and then I had to download the armory crate drivers and then I had to update my apps in the Microsoft store. It’s way too much effort and they really need to get the Xbox full experience down. The other little thing I hope they add is things like Xbox sounds. When you navigate the Xbox full screen it’s silent and dead. I noticed when they asked me for feedback the feedback notifications had the Xbox animation console sounds but the rest of the experience is lacking. I also am starting to have a ton of issues with the Xbox button. It just stops working. And my biggest complaint is every other time I turn the thing on it didn’t want to keep the keyboard open. It lets me input two numbers and then the keyboard disappears and then I can’t reopen the keyboard. Sometimes I restart the thing 7 times before it lets me actually into the system. I hope Microsoft irons it out.