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We truly are in the dark days of RAMageddon right now, and while we’ve seen what pricey RAM has done to established industries like laptops or video game consoles with price hikes galore, the recent Steam Deck OLED price hike has brought things into sharper focus for handheld gaming PCs, too.The new MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ might not have the catchiest name, but this impressive piece of hardware certainly has a high sticker price: $1,699.99. That could get you multiple consoles of yesteryear, but it's now the going rate for a new handheld PC.Best Buy listing reveals MSI’s new handheld
(Image credit: Future)At least we think it is. As spotted by Notebookcheck, the new MSI product leaked on Best Buy’s storefront this week but has since been delisted.The latest Claw model is packing 32GB of RAM, 1TB of storage and the new Intel Arc G3 Extreme GPU. It's the first handheld from MSI built around that new chip, and it will introduce frame generation tech to the Claw lineup.There’s also a large, 8-inch screen which runs at a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 and has up to 120Hz refresh rate, and an 8Wh battery, which all sounds really impressive — but we can’t quite get over the digits in the price tag.Was it a placeholder price? It’s hard to say, but it’s clear that a handheld PC is no longer the no-brainer value proposition it once was.Is it still worth it?
