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Captain_Yuri said:

15-20% performance uplift at 15 watts and 40-70% at 25 watts vs steam deck at 15 watts. Pretty meh performance per watt uplift all things considered and since it has the same battery capacity as the steam deck, you would probably want to run it at 15 watts most of the time. The rest of the features are great though, especially the 120hz display and the fan noise along with the very competitive price. But it is lacking the crucial suspend and resume function that the steam deck has,

The quality control on those buttons is a bit worrying however.

I'm seeing comments across reddit, youtube and twitter that are all talking about the lack of suspend/resume feature and it being the biggest deal breaker to them.

Perf uplift or not, the battery being the same is bad, meaning juicing the system to outperform the deck, means you're draining more batter, which means you're plugging yourself to a socket, which defeats the entire purpose of a mobile device.

basically you either juice yourself to less than an hr's experience, or you stay at the Deck's level and still have no S/R feature. Either way I see that device being utterly dead in the water compared to the Deck (and afaik, that device is mainly Windows, not Steam oS, so it's going to miss out on features that can and will come with that OS down the line, so they have to rely on MS to somehow ante up Steam oS). 

Pretty much. I am surprised how many tech tubers aren't talking about the lack of suspend and resume. Linus skipped that part entirely in their review of the Ally. Either you need to have great battery to the point where pausing the game will not drain the battery enough for it to matter or you need to have suspend and resume so that if you need to do something else, you can. This is the worst of both options, bad battery life and no suspend and resume. And if you limit it to 10 watts, the Steam Deck is faster at that point.

It does allow you to play every game thanks to Windows and the 120hz VRR display is great but idk if it's worth a buy for most people.