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Aye, I owned both. Got an LCD when it first came out and bought an OLED when they came out. Treat yourself, in all situations of visual screens OLED is better.
On the other hand, the LCD is perfectly fine.
Its perfectly ok. The OLED runs cooler, brighter, and better battery life. Don't get me wrong when I got the led steamdeck when it first came out I played it more than my gaming PC. Steam deck is awesome but if you can manage the few bucks more always go OLED. I literally sold the LED at a steep discount and bought the OLED and dont regret it.
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Disagree on the oled thing. Oled is better in a lot of cases, specially if everything on the screen is constantly changing. However, for a computer that will be displaying the taskbar 70% of the time its not ok. Oled burn in is a thing
Auto hide the taskbar, burn your wallpaper instead. Oled burn is really is much less of an issue these days thanks to better panels and pixel shifting tech.
I have a folder of backgrounds they switch every hour just for this reason.
But I hardly ever see them with full screen apps anyway and app/spaces switching with gestures is like second nature. Like having a laptop with 4-5 monitors.
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To quote Rtings:
under normal circumstances, with mixed usage, burn-in isn't an issue
Even if your task bar is on 70% of the time, you're not going to see any significant burn-in.
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A lot of people have done burn in tests on the OLED, and it's barely a concern. The tech has really improved.
Since you said 'the oled' i assume you mean the steam deck oled. Im not denying its bad, on contrary. Steam deck is a device that is constantly changing whats displayed. Thats good to prevent burn in on any device. The guy said oled is always better, which is what i disagreed with. Ive seen enough phones and computers monitors that were oled that had the windows taskbar, or android status bar, burned in over the years cause its a static thing. Like any display, burn in is possible but dont underestimate oled on burn in
Even then, the concerns are way way way waaaaaay overblown.
Hardware unboxed have been purposely trying to burn in an OLED for thousands of hours, and it's still barely perceptible even when you're trying to look for it by taking a picture of the screen then applying filters to make it more visible. In real world usage its effectively impossible.
With any modern OLED display, burn in is something you don't need to worry about.
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Man and it's so much less hot, less heavy
Makes you wonder why Nintendo decided to make the base Switch 2 model LCD
Because it's cheaper to make and allows them to release an OLED version at a premium later.
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Good night cheapest game box on the market.
With the way that memory prices are going, Valve is going to bring back the 64GB model.
/s
/not s
Honestly, that’s probably why they are consolidating manufacturing around less SKUs.
Everything sucks.
I got the 64gb intentionally to just put in a 512gb myself. Was no problem to do, and saved quite a bit on the price difference. I'm extremely happy with the device, but don't use it nearly enough.
I dropped in a 2Tb when prices were still good.
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same
These are SSD, not RAM.
SSDs are being affected too. Not as much, and I forget why exactly, maybe because it's all silicon and shares some manufacturing resources? 🤷♂️
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I wonder if DDR prices are a factor. They might lose too much with the lower proved model compared to the OLED models.
These have DDR4 RAM, right? But Gaben did say that the original $399 price was difficult to hit, so any small increase in component prices might make it impossible.
Look on OfferUp and you'll see folks coming out of the woodwork trying to sell 64gb DDR4 for $300-700.
I'm glad I rebuilt my PC before they started requiring a rainbow clown wig on top of every module.
jfc I gave away two sticks of this a year or two ago because I didn't need them anymore. if only I knew.
RIP. I got Rog z390, 9700k, and 64GB DDR4 for $180 last week. Upgrading my unraid server!
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I just got a 2nd LCD during the sale. Unfortunately it was broken and I'm still waiting on a replacement. With any luck they'll send me an OLED one instead 😜
Edit: just got the shipping confirmation, so no luck. Also, not getting it until the 29th. 23 days from reporting the issue to getting a replacement 🤬
I love mine ❤️🥹
yep I'm still using my lcd cause I see no real reason to upgrade. I love it immensely 💕
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Already out of stock
I'm sure the headline should say "once sold out, they'll only be available on the second-hand market". Not gone forever though.
nah they will be remotely exploding all steamdecks 100% real source trust me bro
Anyone order some pagers?
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Got a cheap LCD 64GB one on sale then put in a 1 TB SSD, and I love it. This form factor in the $300s is about right. Much more than that and it’s not really worth it for low-end graphics on a small screen.
I ran out of 512 so fast on legion go s, (sd card reader sucks) Couldn't go with 256, but ive heard steam deck has a decent reader
I have the 64gb LCD and run most games off sd card. With a quality card, it works really well.
I just got a 256GB steam deck. It's do able. But you'll want a PC nearby with your games installed. Then it'll just download it from your PC for lightning fast installs.
I own an OG Legion Go and owned a Steam Deck prior to that. The Deck's SD card reader is definitely better.
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