I called the MSI Claw an embarrassment, so imagine my surprise: its successor is the best Windows handheld yet
I wrote that no one should buy MSI and Intel's original handheld gaming PC. I literally called it an embarrassment, and the company blacklisted me after that. MSI stopped pitching me news, and stopped answering my emails, even after the company began to write off its dud of a handheld.
So you can imagine my surprise to find: MSI and Intel have gone from worst to nearly first. In many games, it's twice as fast as the original Claw. And with new drivers that bump its performance up to 30 percent higher since launch - I tested - the newer $1,000 MSI Claw 8 AI Plus might just be the best Windows handheld you can buy.
The Claw 8 has become a ...