One Netbook OneXFly F1 Pro

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Device Overview: One Netbook OneXFly F1 Pro

The One Netbook OneXFly F1 Pro is a 7-inch Windows 11 gaming handheld built around AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, and the thing to understand up front is that it is a full x86 PC, not an Android or Linux emulation box. It competes with the ASUS ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go rather than the Anbernic and Miyoo crowd, and it undercuts neither on price. What it sells is a combination almost nobody else shipped in late 2024: a 144Hz OLED panel, a top-bin Zen 5 mobile chip, and Hall-effect everything, wrapped in a 607g body slimmer than a Steam Deck. You pay dearly for that stack.

Emulation performance, generation by generation

Because this is a Radeon 890M-class Windows machine, emulation is not a question of “can it run” but of how much power budget you feed it. Everything through the sixth console generation is trivial: NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PSP and DS all hit full speed with upscaling and barely wake the fans, even at the 15W profile. GameCube and Wii on Dolphin are effortless, usually at 2x to 3x internal resolution. PS2 on PCSX2 is solid, though a few notoriously heavy titles still want per-game tweaks. The interesting tier is seventh gen and up: Wii U through Cemu is comfortable, Switch emulation on the Ryujinx forks runs the bulk of the library well, and PS3 on RPCS3 is playable but the most CPU- and thermally-bound thing you will throw at it, so expect to sit at 25 to 30W and accept the battery hit. That is the honest ceiling: a strong Switch and PS3 machine, not a magic PS4 box. shadPS4 and Vita3K will boot things, but treat those as experiments, not a library. In practice the 144Hz OLED matters as much as the chip here, because run-ahead and integer scaling on 2D-era systems look genuinely excellent on this panel, and the headroom means you can pin most emulators to a locked frame rate rather than chasing it.

Screen, build and controls

The 1080p OLED is the headline and it earns the billing: 7 inches, 144Hz, roughly 800 nits, with the deep blacks and near-instant response OLED always brings. It makes the LCD rivals look grey. The trade-off is that 1080p is a demanding native resolution for this class of chip, so in modern AAA games you will often render below native and lean on FSR. The chassis is genuinely thin at 20mm and light at about 607g, though the flat, compact grips are less forgiving over a long session than the ROG Ally X’s fuller handles. Controls are a real strength: Hall-effect analog sticks that will not drift, Hall linear-analog triggers, a crisp clicky d-pad, and configurable RGB rings under the sticks. Connectivity is generous, with two USB4 Type-C ports, a USB-A 3.2 port, microSD, a 3.5mm jack, Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, but note there is no OCuLink, so external-GPU users are stuck routing through USB4.

Software and setup

It ships with Windows 11, which is the honest strength and weakness of every handheld in this class. You get the entire Steam, Epic, Game Pass and emulator ecosystem with zero compatibility caveats, and you also get Windows’ tiny touch targets, mid-session driver updates and a Start menu never designed for a gamepad. One Netbook’s own 1X Console overlay handles TDP, fan curves and RGB; it is functional rather than polished, so many owners add Handheld Companion for finer TDP control. For emulation specifically, an EmulationStation-DE or Playnite front end tames the chaos, and EmuDeck runs here to automate BIOS and folder setup. If Windows wears on you, the F1 Pro is a normal x86 machine, so a Bazzite (SteamOS-style) install is the popular escape hatch into a console-like boot. One clarification worth making: the ARM-only firmwares people cite for cheaper handhelds, muOS, Knulli, ArkOS, ROCKNIX and OnionOS, do not run on this x86 hardware and should not be attempted.

Price, value and who it is for

This is where the honesty has to land. The OneXFly F1 Pro starts around $1,099 for lower configurations and climbs past $1,600, up to roughly $1,699, for the 64GB RAM and 4TB HX 370 build. That is ROG Ally X money plus a heavy premium, and the 48.5Wh battery, which drains in a little over an hour under a demanding 3D load, is the same fundamental limitation every powerful x86 handheld shares. What the extra spend buys is the OLED screen, the top-bin chip, the slimmer body and the Hall-effect controls, a set no mainstream rival combined into one device at launch. It is for the enthusiast who specifically wants an OLED handheld PC, will pay the premium, and is comfortable wrangling Windows on a 7-inch screen. Anyone chasing value, all-day battery, or a plug-and-play retro machine should buy a Steam Deck OLED or a cheap ARM handheld instead.