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This is the first time I’ve seen “Steam deck” used for a non-Valve device. Gaben may have made the next Kleenex or Bandaid

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That was OP though. It’s not part of the headline of the article.

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15 points

If that chipset has the same issues my Arc a750 has, don’t count on being able to play older games.

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I might be mistaken, but these Intel based machines might be better for switch emulation, as they share dedicated hw for the particular form of texture decompression they use. One cool potential upside

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My thoughts exactly, Intel are still trying to break into the gaming market with their graphics, but they have a long history of failing at this.

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Being an XE gpu, it most certainly will.

But Intel seems to be making real strides into older game compatibility with each driver update… I wonder how your GPU and this handheld could possibly improve with time.

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The same old, tired and stupid control layout and no trackpads. How do you even begin to make a PC handheld and not offer any mouse cursor controls? All the Steam Competitors do is up the specs to stupid numbers and appeal to familiarity. It’s both disappointing and something should’ve expected.

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Why are there only two handheld PCs with touchpads?

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There are a bunch more then 2:

Acer rog handheld Lenovo legion Gpd win 2/3/4 and various versions Ayaneo has a few different models Onexplayer which also uses an Intel chip Any loki

There are probably more, I haven’t used any of them so don’t take this as an endorsement of any of them…

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Do you mean touchscreen? At least the ROG Ally and the GPD ones don’t have touchpads. The only ones I could find were the Lenovo Legion and Steam Deck. Haven’t seen any other handheld PC with a touchpad.

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gpd and ayaneo have models with touchpad and keyboard. many models. search better

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2 points

Drivers, probably. Valve did the heavy lifting with the Steam Controller and Steam Input. Other manufacturers don’t have a controller abstraction layer they can integrate that into

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19 points

Shit tier article. No mention of OS.

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28 points

Just assume Windows.

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Which means no ability to suspend games.

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hibernation csn perfectly suspend games and bring them back. I have a ton of windows handhelds, no issues

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30 points

But it comes with Cortana, and key loggers, and ads!

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3 points

No

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On a side-note, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s supported by Bazzite early on.

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It’s not the article’s fault, the full details of the device will be announced at CES. It’s almost definitely Windows though.

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