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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
perhaps a redundant question but is the steam deck good, or may i as well stick with the decent laptop i have? i sorta glossed past its existence when it came out so i dont have a clue on its performance
gpt
If you have a laptop and are ok with its size, stick with it.

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The deck does have drawbacks:

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\-APU is on the potato ish side. Good enough 800p (native) PS4 titles at PS4 (and sometimes better cause CPU) speeds (and older = better)

\-ONLY a 2230 SSD which is capped at 2TB (for a 600€ drive lol) Or mod a 2240 in it which might void your warranty but at 250€

\-ONLY one USBC port also used for charging

\-Some games WILL require a BT kb+Mouse because even when it has 4 extra backside buttons because you cant map all functions (STALKER games)

Linux filesystem IS ASS (Your SD card is 4 folders down in "root" = your "C drive") , which makes setting up emulators (if you dont use flatpacks and want to import your memcards) A PAIN, but its doable.

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The benefits:

Smaller size than most laptops : About a netbook

At the netbook size I dont think there is anything faster

Handheld with built in user replaceable inputs (if stickdrift ever occurs)

Screen apparently is adaptive sync so if you dont get quite 60 FPS you will see 56 FPS and not 30 as with Vsync

It is super low powerdraw so you could charge it with a mid sized folding solar panel.

The Wifi is near godlike, my room barely gets 2 bars but the deck somehow has 4 and more speed than my desktop with a directed antenna