OneXFly Apex: specs, price and our verdict in 2026

The OneXFly Apex is the most ambitious handheld gaming PC One-Netbook has built so far: an AMD Strix Halo chip, an 8-inch 120 Hz screen, an external 85 Wh battery and, as an option, liquid cooling. It runs demanding games at 1,200p without breaking a sweat, but it weighs close to 1.1 kg, costs more than €2,000 in Europe and suffered from a battery fault in its early days. This is a machine for enthusiasts who play near a wall socket and are comfortable buying on import. In early October 2026, the main difficulty is simply finding one in stock.

Introduction: the OneXFly Apex, a 120 W gaming PC in your hands

One-Netbook, a manufacturer based in Shenzhen, sells its handhelds under the OneXPlayer brand. Until now its OneXFly range aimed at the lightweight end of the market, at around 600 g. The OneXFly Apex goes the opposite way: it gets the AMD Ryzen AI Max family, codenamed Strix Halo, chips that were designed for gaming laptops.

The Radeon 8060S graphics has 40 compute units, against 16 for the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme in the ROG Xbox Ally X. Only one rival uses the same chip in this format: the GPD Win 5. One-Netbook answers with a larger screen, a bigger battery and an external water loop, a first on a handheld.

This page relies on the official specifications and on published reviews, chiefly the one from DroiX (March 2026, updated in September) and the measurements taken by YouTuber ETA Prime, as reported by Geeky Gadgets. Since DroiX also sells the console, its score should be read with a little distance. Our editorial team has not handled the device.

Verdict in brief: OneXFly Apex, our editorial take

Three figures sum up the OneXFly Apex. The 40 compute units of the Radeon 8060S, on a par with a mid-range gaming laptop. The power envelope, 80 W on air and a claimed 120 W with the liquid module, when conventional handhelds top out at around 35 W. And the 85 Wh of the battery, housed outside the chassis in a 380 g pack.

Design of the OneXFly Apex: big, dense and built around its battery

The chassis measures 290 x 123.5 x 22.5 mm, the length of a ROG Xbox Ally X with a screen one inch larger. One-Netbook quotes 699 g without the battery; DroiX weighed it at 706 g. The liquid-cooled version adds 70 g.

The battery slides onto the back, on a blade connector. It weighs 380 g on the official spec sheet and 387 g on the DroiX scales, which brings the whole thing to 1,079 g, or as much as 1,093 g as measured. That is roughly 170 g more than a complete GPD Win 5, and reviewers mention wrists that tire quickly.

A battery that doubles as a kickstand

The battery pack of the OneXFly Apex has a built-in kickstand, something GPD did not plan for. Set down on a table or a train tray, the console stands upright and can be played with a wireless controller. An extension cable, sold for $19, also lets you keep the battery in a pocket.

Ergonomics and controls: capacitive sticks and adjustable triggers

The controls are among the machine’s successes. The sticks use contactless capacitive sensing, which is meant to eliminate the drift that affects potentiometer-based sticks.

The Hall effect triggers come with a physical switch. In the long position, travel reaches 8 mm, ideal for feathering the throttle in a racing game. In the short position, it drops to 2 mm, for faster shots. DroiX also praises buttons with a crisp click.

• Fingerprint reader in the power button.
• Six-axis gyroscope and two linear vibration motors.
• RGB light rings around the sticks.
• Two Harman-certified speakers.

Display: 8 inches, 120 Hz and variable refresh rate, but no OLED

The panel on the OneXFly Apex is an 8-inch IPS touchscreen at 1,920 x 1,200 pixels, in a 16:10 format. One-Netbook claims 500 nits and full coverage of the sRGB colour space. Some retailer pages mention OLED: that is a mistake, as every technical source describes an LCD screen.

The real asset is variable refresh rate. Up to 120 frames per second, the screen matches its refresh to the game’s frame rate and removes screen tearing. On a machine whose smoothness changes with the power level you pick, that is more useful than a brightness figure.

What remains is the missing OLED. The Legion Go 2 and the Steam Deck OLED offer perfect blacks and proper HDR for far less money. At more than €2,000, a 500-nit LCD panel feels a little thin.

Performance of the OneXFly Apex: Strix Halo power in numbers

Two chips at launch, a third in 2026

At launch, the OneXFly Apex came with a choice of two processors. The Ryzen AI Max 385 has 8 Zen 5 cores and a Radeon 8050S with 32 compute units. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 climbs to 16 cores and the Radeon 8060S. LPDDR5X memory ranges from 32 to 128 GB, a large share of which can be used as video memory.

In October 2026, the official store mostly lists versions with the Ryzen AI Max+ 388, an 8-core chip that keeps the Radeon 8060S. For gaming, it is the right compromise: the 16 cores of the 395 are of little use beyond video editing or running AI locally.

What the published reviews measure

ETA Prime records 2,858 points in single-core and 15,977 in multi-core in Geekbench 6 at 45 W. In 3DMark Time Spy, the score rises from 8,951 points at 45 W to 10,648 points at 80 W. Almost doubling the power draw therefore buys less than 20% more performance: the sweet spot of the OneXFly Apex sits between 40 and 55 W.

In games, DroiX reports Cyberpunk 2077 locked at 60 frames per second at 1,200p with ray tracing on low, and Doom: The Dark Ages above 60 frames per second at maximum quality. Against the Win 5, the gaps stay within the margin of error.

A handheld with liquid cooling: what the Frost Bay really adds

Internal cooling relies on two fans spinning at 5,400 rpm and four copper heat pipes. DroiX measures 63 dB under load, at 55 W on battery as well as at 80 W on mains power. That is loud: a headset quickly becomes essential.

The Frost Bay module, sold for $199, or about €183 (about 120,000 FCFA), is an external box connected by two hoses. It promises a sustained 120 W. Two caveats: only the Liquid Cooling version of the OneXFly Apex has the fittings, and buyers say, in the reviews on the official store, that the module holds 80 W but cannot keep up 120 W for more than a few minutes. It is mostly useful for playing plugged in, at a desk.

Game library and compatibility: the whole PC catalogue, no exceptions

Under Windows 11, the OneXFly Apex launches anything that runs on a PC: Steam, the Epic Games Store, GOG, PC Game Pass and online games protected by kernel-level anti-cheat, which SteamOS still often blocks. That is its edge over a Steam Machine or a Steam Deck.

Emulation benefits from the power too: DroiX runs RPCS3 (PlayStation 3) at an internal 1080p. And with 48 GB of memory or more, the machine can also run language models locally.

Battery life on the OneXFly Apex: 85 Wh, a kickstand and a teething problem

OneXFly Apex battery life as measured: from 1 hour to more than 7

Everything depends on the power you ask for. ETA Prime gets more than 7 hours at 10 W, 2 hr 20 min at 25 W and about 1 hr 10 min at 45 W. DroiX measures 1 hr 03 min with a looping workload at 55 W, brightness at maximum. For a recent game, expect between one and two hours per battery.

The point of the external pack is that you can carry a second one. The spare battery cost $79 during the campaign, and the charging dock $39. For anyone who lives with regular power cuts, two batteries in rotation make more sense than one soldered internal battery.

The problem of the battery throttled to 20 W

The first units of the OneXFly Apex have a fault documented by DroiX. When the battery reaches a certain temperature threshold, the console lowers its own power to 20 W, and the game falls apart. The workaround is to stay between 40 and 45 W on battery.

Charging and power supply

The OneXFly Apex charges through its USB4 port or through a dedicated power input. A GaN charger is supplied, but its wattage varies from one listing to another: 100 W according to a retailer listing, up to 180 W according to Wccftech. Ask the seller for the details.

Software: Windows 11 and the OneXConsole overlay

The OneXFly Apex ships with Windows 11 Home. A dedicated key opens OneXConsole, the in-house overlay: power setting, fan curve, frame limit and game launcher. DroiX finds it decent, with no major flaw.

Windows is still Windows: a desktop interface to poke at with a finger, updates at the wrong moment and a sleep mode less reliable than on a Valve console. The Xbox full-screen mode, opened up to Windows handhelds at the end of 2025, has not yet been assessed on this machine in the published reviews.

What about SteamOS or Bazzite?

Bazzite, the Linux distribution inspired by SteamOS, has supported several OneXPlayer handhelds since 2024. For the Apex, no official support has been announced: power control, fans and the external battery may need community drivers. One for tinkerers only.

Storage and ports: a standard SSD, Mini SSD and USB4

The internal SSD is a PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 drive, easy to replace. One-Netbook adds a Mini SSD slot, the card format pushed by Biwin: DroiX measures 3,551 MB/s in read speed on it. A microSD reader rounds things off.

As for ports, the OneXFly Apex offers one USB4 at 40 Gbit/s, one USB-C 3.2, one USB-A 3.2 and a headphone jack. Wireless stops at Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, with no 4G or 5G modem.

Price and availability: an expensive console, sold mostly on import

OneXFly Apex price in dollars, from the campaign to today

In China, the console started at 8,599 yuan, or about €1,110 (about 728,000 FCFA). On Indiegogo, prices ran from $1,399 for the 385 version with 32 GB and 1 TB, or about €1,287 (about 844,000 FCFA), to $2,239 for the 395 version with 128 GB. The liquid-cooled variant cost $60 more.

Those prices did not last a month. On 1 December 2025, One-Netbook added $200 to every configuration, citing the surge in memory costs, which we cover in detail in our article on the RAM shortage. In January 2026, the official store was asking $1,699 for the base model.

On 3 October 2026, the official page for the console lists Ryzen AI Max+ 388 versions from $2,399, or about €2,207 (about 1,448,000 FCFA) before tax, all of them out of stock. In less than a year, the entry ticket has gone up by $1,000, admittedly with a better graphics chip.

In France and Europe

The OneXFly Apex has no official distribution in France, and we found no verifiable product page at Amazon.fr, Fnac, Darty or Cdiscount. Two specialist retailers ship from within the European Union, taxes included. DroiX lists the 64 GB and 2 TB version at €2,739 (about 1,797,000 FCFA), with a one-year warranty. Spanish retailer kiboTEK lists the 395 version with 48 GB at around €2,500 (about 1,640,000 FCFA), with a three-year warranty.

Both were out of stock in early October. Ordering from the official store remains possible when stock returns, but the parcel leaves from China: add 20% VAT in France and expect a long and costly warranty return.

In West and Central Africa: import, customs and a long-distance warranty

No retailer distributes the OneXFly Apex in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire or Senegal. You have to go through a freight forwarder or a relative in Europe, then add shipping and customs duties, which takes the bill beyond 2 million FCFA. The warranty is handled at a distance, with the return parcel at your expense. The console has no cellular modem: it depends on Wi-Fi, and a 100 GB game weighs heavily on a mobile data plan.

Against the competition: OneXFly Apex vs GPD Win 5 and the rest

The most direct duel is between two machines with the same chip. The GPD Win 5 is more compact and lighter, between 915 and 943 g, and its 388 version can be found at around €1,818 in Europe. The OneXFly Apex answers with an 8-inch screen, 5 Wh more, a kickstand and the liquid option. With performance level, the choice comes down to format and stock.

Handhelds built on the Ryzen Z2 Extreme play in a different price bracket. The ROG Xbox Ally X costs €999.99 from Asus France, weighs 715 g and comes with a local warranty. Less powerful, it is enough for 1080p at medium settings.

The latest arrival, the Apex Air, keeps the 8-inch format and the 85 Wh battery with an Intel chip, for $1,839 according to Tech-Insider. To see where these machines stand against Nintendo’s console, read our comparison of the Switch 2, Steam Deck OLED and ROG Ally.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Graphics power at the top of the handheld class, level with the Win 5.
• 8-inch 120 Hz screen with variable refresh rate.
• Swappable external 85 Wh battery, with a kickstand and a charging dock.
• Expandable storage: M.2 2280, fast Mini SSD and microSD.
• Carefully designed controls: capacitive sticks, dual-travel triggers.

Cons

• About 1,080 g with the battery: tiring without support.
• Fans at 63 dB under load.
• Original battery throttled to 20 W when hot, to be replaced.
• Price up from $1,399 to more than $2,399, patchy stock.
• LCD screen, Wi-Fi 6E and a long-distance warranty.

These three machines answer the criticisms levelled at the OneXFly Apex: the Win 5 for compactness, the Asus console to halve the bill, the Legion Go 2 for OLED.

Conclusion: should you buy the OneXFly Apex in 2026?

On paper, the OneXFly Apex is the most complete handheld PC of the moment: the fastest chip, a large and smooth screen, storage to spare and a battery you replace like the one on a cordless tool. The published measurements confirm the power.

In practice, three points dampen the enthusiasm. The weight rules out long sessions without support. The launch was spoiled by a battery that throttled the machine, since fixed but worth checking at the time of purchase. And the entry ticket has gained $1,000 in less than a year, with no retail presence in France or in West and Central Africa.

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