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Steam Deck killers be like (i.imgur.com)
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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (10 children)

I suppose. But then why not steam deck?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (9 children)

    If you like the hardware of one of the others more. I think the Legion Go looks pretty sweet. Wonder if it could make a good daily driver even.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    I used the steam deck as a daily driver between laptops. It was good enough to the point that if I had a decent mobile monitor, I would consider it exclusively for a travel rig.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Outside of the better gpu, the one advantage the other devices have is emulation. Steamdeck sits on the edge of performance for some of the harder to emulate devices heavy titles (PS3, Switch). The ones using Ryzen 3/4 would trivially handle emulation better than the Steamdecks CPU, which uses Ryzen 1+ (part of the reason why its low cost)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I am looking specifically for a single device for travelling with. But the built in controllers of the Steamdeck are just a little too goofy for me to give it much serious consideration.

    A tablet form-factor Steamdeck? I'd be sold.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You might think that. But consider that there will likely be fully functional keyboards via those same controllers.

    I used mine for travel in business. it performed fine. It was nice to not have have a separate key board (although I did keep one with me).

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I doubt I'm going to write much code on a controller I'm afraid.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I've got an external monitor and my full keyboard and mouse with a dock and my steam deck. I can set up anywhere with a desk and game, program, whatever. I've found very little that it can't handle.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What monitor are you using? Can the dock drive it?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    I'm using this portable monitor but it is kind of finicky, and I worry it'll break easily. It's the biggest one I could find at a reasonable price, and happens to fit my backpack.

    I've used it with my 3440x1440 freesync monitor at home, and it works as well, but like anything, whether you can game at that resolution is very dependant on the specific game and settings you use.

    I'll add, because the deck doesn't have thunderbolt, plan on using HDMI instead of type c. It's possible you can find a type c (non-thunderbolt) dock that supports powering and driving a monitor over type c along with the deck, but I wasn't able to find one.

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