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Captain_Yuri said:

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.

Likely because most of those guys use the device indoors, possibly same for the Deck (just like how I myself have always used my Switch indoors, mostly docked or mobile on my bed, but never outdoors), so they're comfortable with keeping the handheld plugged in at all times to constantly keep the device juiced and somehow make juicing it worth it (because outside of keeping it on charge constantly, you'll be bothered by the constant draining battery every time you crank it up).

No idea why Linus of all people skipped it, considering how he was ogling the Deck last year and going all over it's features and innards, and then for this device he just skips an important feature like the S/R.

Honestly, not that I too share hate for recent wrongdoings from Asus, but the bad battery and no S/R make that device non portable, because to outdo the Deck, you'd want to juice it up, which means you're going to be plugged to a nearby wall socket most of the time, so you just may as well stick with a desktop or laptop at that point and get even more perf out of those other two devices.

It sounded good on paper, like specs and all that, but I think Asus just goofed hard by scrimping on the battery and no S/R.

Personally, I'm not a fan of where Windows is headed (after seeing what's gong on with 11), so it running only Windows is just a no buy for me, whilst the Deck allows for either OS, and that's good to have the options there for you from day 1. Even if the Ally can support Steam OS, it's not going to be "officially" supported by Valve like the Deck is, so there's definitely going to be some reliance on Asus to support it's own Ally customers in their own way, and well, given their recent shitting the bed... fat chance of long-term support like what Valve has for the Deck. 

Pretty much. I will say that S/R isn't really a fault of Asus cause it needs to be built into the OS and considering how shitty MS is when it comes to sleep mode, I am sure they would do a shitty job here too. I do kinda wished Asus maybe worked with Valve to see if they could have Steam OS onto the Ally. Like the SoC isn't that different realistically , it's basically the same underlying arch, just upgraded so Steam OS should work if Valve started supporting it.

The other benefit of Steam Deck that no one talks about is pre-shader compilation with a lot of games.