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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I suppose. But then why not steam deck?

[-] darq@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] darq@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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).

[-] darq@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Thats your business and your use case may differ. My use case is wearing leather jackets with shoulder pads while standing outside isolated telephone booths..

I really think if they keyboard was sufficient it would actually be kindof fun to program this way.

[-] MajinBlayze@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] MajinBlayze@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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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