{"id":1595045,"date":"2026-06-01T15:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/A8bCQg2CUVpKy5gekVTedF"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:19:28","slug":"acer-tries-to-dodge-the-rampocalypse-with-its-nitro-blaze-link-by-making-it-streaming-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/acer-tries-to-dodge-the-rampocalypse-with-its-nitro-blaze-link-by-making-it-streaming-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Acer tries to dodge the RAMpocalypse with its Nitro Blaze Link by making it streaming only"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the RAMpocalypse doing its very best to ruin PC gaming, with memory and storage now ludicrously expensive, the handheld market has struggled to keep things affordable. Acer’s solution to all this is simple: bin everything needed to play games locally, and just make a streaming device instead.<\/p>\n

Officially called the Nitro Blaze Link<\/a>, Acer’s newest handheld joins the rest of the Blaze lineup. But where they’re all packed with a punchy little AMD Ryzen 8000-series APU, lots of NVMe storage and fast DRAM, the Blaze Link is essentially a ‘dead’ box. You won’t be playing any games locally, because it only has 1 GB of memory and 8 GB of eMMC storage for its Linux operating system, according to PC Mag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naturally, with such little gubbins in the Link, there’s not much to say about specifications. The display is a 7-inch touchscreen with a 1920 x 1200 resolution, though there’s no word on its refresh rate. I can see no word as to what chip is powering the device, but that doesn’t really matter, and at least it has Wi-Fi 6E support.<\/p>\n

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