Leaked: Asus ROG Ally 2 with AMD Z2 Extreme CPU, 64GB RAM, and Black Variant Featuring an Xbox Button

Man, you ever get sidetracked reading tech news like it’s the latest thriller novel? Weird, right? So, I stumbled upon this wild ride about Microsoft’s Project Kennan. Ever heard of it? Yeah, me neither, until now. Picture this: The thing is finally popping up as part of the ROG Ally 2 series — because why not?

Anyway, there’s word from 91mobiles and some Twitter guru that Asus is cooking up not one, but two spinoffs of the ROG Ally 2. One badass black model flaunting an Xbox Button like it’s a flashy badge, and a more chill white version meant for, I dunno, regular folks? Already losing track here.

So, here’s the juice. Project Kennan’s been floating around officially, but this leak finally ties it all together. Flip-side: Everyone’s already ID-ed these gizmos through the US FCC listings. Seems like quite the detective work, huh? The game plan echoes the original ROG Ally choices—choose your player: the basic AMD Z1, 4 CUs, or the muscled-up Z1 Extreme with 12 CUs. A $100 decision to make. Gotta love options, though keeping all x86 means your old games won’t cry about it.

Oh, did I mention the fancy Xbox Button? Screams Kennan to the max. Probably just pulls up the Game Bar, sorta like your PC does with a million updates per week. But hey, maybe Microsoft sprinkled in some hidden extras. We’ll have to twiddle our thumbs ’til the big unveil.

Leaked specs? Hold onto your hats! Inside, the rumored Z2 Extreme brings eight cores (some Zen 5 action), 16 threads, rocking a Radeon 890M iGPU with 16 Compute Units. What a list, huh? And trust me, I don’t even know what half of these mean, but they sound powerful. 2TB SSD, 64GB LPDDR5x-8533 RAM, and a 120Hz touchscreen. Almost feels like I’m just saying words here.

Let’s switch over to the unassuming white edition. Seems like it’s got an untouched AMD APU, with a mysterious “100-000001835” code. Whaaat? Limited RAM—16GB, but who’s counting? Same screen zing and 65W charging. Some say its engine is akin to the Steam Deck’s brain, codenamed Aerith Plus. Fresh gossip? For sure.

All these fancy terms, TDP figures, quad-core raves. Architecture mysteries abound but we might get spoiled at Computex. Guess we’ll wait and obsessively refresh our feeds.

Yeah, that’s the scoop. Helps to follow Tom’s Hardware or whoever’s the next whistleblower for all this juicy stuff. Your move.