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I would like to see a barebones option for like 500-600 but I doubt that will happen.
It’s called the steam deck + dock and it costs $800 at least.
I've had a deck since the beginning and absolutely love it. Though I gave up docking it a long time ago. I find it struggles to run a lot of stuff at 1080p that it plays fine at 800p. 2D and older 3D games play fine docked but I just got out of the habit of even trying to push it past native resolution.
I agree with you. I was playing Hades earlier and it’s very pixelated on the TV… Oh well. Maybe I’ll get the steam machine and will sell the Deck. Well shall see.
What would barebones be exactly?
Just no ram and no storage.
barebones means youre on your own to procure ram and storage (though theyd pay for gpu ram) it gives value to people who already have the ram/atorage in hand and price the devices minus the ram/storage cost as if it were before memory prices skyrocketed (minus gpu ram) as the cost of the rest of the components wouldnt have had the same price hike
No GPU, storage or RAM.
I don't think that would work, it has a custom GPU. I would take a no or low storage version to save some money, I some extra SSDs laying around. But RAM prices are insane right now and I bet Valve can get a better deal than I can.