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Fuuuuck now I want one !
Nice little upgrade. I would cancel if I had a pending order, but if you have an original Deck I don’t think it’s worth upgrading by itself.
This Steam deck has two major issues, 1. It downloads every single code-library for every single game. Meaning, if multiple games in your deck use the same library, that one library is downloaded and stored multiple times wasting valuable storage space. 2. Most of the games yet don’t support Valve’s Steam deck and Linux all together.
I’m a Linux user.
It downloads every single code-library for every single game.
How big do you think libraries are?
Assets are the real waster.
how big do you know they are? or do you not know?
Precisely what the Deck needs. Especially since they officially want to keep the performance at this level for a couple of years. 800p is probably a good call still, but the low SRGB LCD needed an upgrade.
I’m glad storage went up. Not much of a reason to keep low storage SKUs around when NAND is super cheap and games are huge.
Now, if they would just begin speculating on that Steam Controller 2…
They probably assume people will buy the lowest then upgrade the storage
the OG steam controller is good tho people weren’t ready for its greatness
Thank u Volvo. I would say 1080p especially at 7.4" would have also been welcome, but I don’t think both 1080p and 90 Hz would have been practical even with efficiency improvements and a bigger battery. The deck needed a better screen for damn sure, and I’m glad it’s here.
Managing a battery life INCREASE with the switch to OLED is quite an impressive achievement. Though it’s a real dick move to release an upgrade without announcing it in advance.
Where’s the next Index?
They just addressed most of my issues with the deck with this revision. As an OLED TV monitor user, The 60hz LCD was the primary thing that was genuinely annoying. I’m looking forwards to buying this thing as a dedicated soulsborne & hollow knight machine.
The plastic screw posts were an issue, I actually broke one of the posts on my own deck. And the storage options no longer feel like a rip-off! ( YAY! )
My other nitpicks of the hardware were the stiff buttons ( prefer microswtiches ideally but compliant levers on metal domes are also cool ).And just in time for the holidays as well. I would imagine that these are going to sell like toilet paper in a pandemic. Go Valve.
Exactly. Being able to play Hollow Knight mobile with good resolution is a must because my wife got tired of watching me die on the big screen to the same boss for hours
Twice the ram and same storage capacity as the $1600 base MacBook Pro.
what an insanely dumb comparison lmao you are comparing a gaming handheld to a productivity/work laptop
the 1600$ mac has a CPU that is as strong as the new intel i9 14900k lol literally 10x stronger than steam decks cpu
and you dont really need more storage/ram for what mac is actually used for in 90% of cases
Twice the ram and same storage capacity as the $1600 base MacBook Pro.
Likely shorter battery life, worse raw performance & runs hot using a smaller screen.
I hope I can just toss my current 2tb ssd into this after updating steamos. Would make it easier to swap to it.
How lame. Slightly upgraded memory specs and efficiency but it’s essentially as weak as the old one. One would imagine they’d make it at the very least 30% more powerful after such a long time.
How? There is no chip that’s 30% faster while maintaining the same wattage.
18 months? Nah.
I really really hope those stick caps are backwards compatible with the original deck, because the slippery-ass thumbsticks are my biggest issue with my steam deck.
this oled deck shits on oled switch SO hard
Probably planned. Dave2D said (in the apple video I think?) companies released a tech first before a tech they expect to beat or match them, so that it looks better by comparison and they get the early buyers. So the people at Steam most likely thinks that Switch 2 is expected to at least match the OLED Steam Deck or even beat it.
any chance of emulating switch on deck?
Sure, you can run the yuzu and ryujinx emulators on it just fine. But the deck is thicker, heavier and noticeably wider, so in my case it’s not as portable as the switch (I own both).
6400 MTs is wild, that’s faster than basically every AMD and like 98% of Intel users.
My lenovo yoga AMD laptop came with 6400MT DDR5. It seems quite common actually.
It’s the advantage of soldered RAM. You lose less signal versus SO-DIMM and that allows you to hit significantly higher speed
I suspect that limited edition one is gonna be pure unobtanium
It sounds like it’s only limited to see if there’s enough interest for it, they’re not ruling out making more of them.