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[–] Mango 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Shit tier article. No mention of OS.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Which means no ability to suspend games.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

There will be a dedicated copilot button instead of a start button.

[–] Jumpinship 0 points 6 months ago

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

[–] Mango 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] rez_doggie 18 points 6 months ago

Batterylife= 45 minutes

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] newthrowaway20 13 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] brlemworld 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does the fan smell like?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Anime Catgirl bath water

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why are there only two handheld PCs with touchpads?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Sounds impressive, but it means nothing without knowing how much it costs.

Aside from that, the big question mark is how much power it'll use. Even though intel's new chips are way better than the old ones, the 155H still uses a lot more power than AMD. No point in a handheld if it'll get hot quickly and run out of battery in 40 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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.