Steam Deck pre-orders are going to be up in less than 40 minutes. There is a $5 refundable deposit that is required. If you refund with in 30 days, it will get refunded back to your payment method otherwise, it will get refunded to your steam wallet after 30 days if you still want to refund. DO NOT BUY $399 version as the Internal Storage is non upgradable.
Some news
Steam Deck Supports Ray Tracing, VRS, and Other Stores; Programmer Compares It to Xbox Series X in Performance per Pixel
https://wccftech.com/steam-deck-supports-ray-tracing-vrs-and-other-stores-programmer-compares-it-to-xbox-series-x-in-power-per-pixel/
Not that I'd enable Ray Tracing on a handheld like this but having support for VRS and Mesh Shaders and such means that it should get useful features to help with performance.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 SUPER ‘Ampere’ GPUs Headed To Desktop & Mobile Platforms, Production Build Starts This Quarter
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-30-super-ampere-gpus-headed-to-desktop-mobile-platforms/
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5000 ‘Chagall’ HEDT CPU Rumors: 5990X & 5995WX With Up To 64 Zen 3 Cores, Chagall X3D Next Year
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-threadripper-pro-5000-chagall-hedt-cpu-5990x-5995wx-with-up-to-64-zen-3-cores-chagall-x3d-leak/
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
