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Will you buy one?

Yes, I'm excited to get one. 20 34.48%
 
No, I don't think so. 22 37.93%
 
Maybe, I need to see how ... 16 27.59%
 
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Dulfite said:
Azzanation said:

Doesnt do it for me. I have a gaming PC and a gaming Laptop if i need to play games on the go.

I once knew some guys that would literally unplug and carry their desktop equipment to wherever they wanted to go that day, then set it all up before taking it back home. True PC gamer overlordz.

Well thats alittle extreme, that's sort of what Laptops are for lol



Dulfite said:
Azzanation said:

Doesnt do it for me. I have a gaming PC and a gaming Laptop if i need to play games on the go.

I once knew some guys that would literally unplug and carry their desktop equipment to wherever they wanted to go that day, then set it all up before taking it back home. True PC gamer overlordz.

We did that often in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Every 14 days me and my friends unplugged our PC hardware at home, carried the heavy big tower PCs plus heavy 17'' - 21'' CRT monitors plus boxes with lots of PC periphals into our cars, drove them to city hall, carried all the stuff in the hall of our "computer club", set up our PCs and a BNC network. A few hours later all the stuff had to be carried back and set up at home.

Within these 14 days, we often carried our PC stuff one or two times to my friend's big house where we could set up our PCs and a BNC network to play LAN games like Doom 1 + 2, Duke 3D, Quake 1 - 3, Unreal, Forsaken, Diablo 1 + 2, Command & Conquer 1 & 2, Dune 2, Warcraft 1 - 3.

Awesome times!   



Captain_Yuri said:
farlaff said:

Yeah, maybe that will happen to me as well, at least until a Switch 2 (Deck might make me skip a Switch upgrade). The only beef that I have with that is the fact the Deck won't be based on Arm technology and thus I probably won't be able to simply press a button, stopping the game altogether so that I can just forget it up till the moment I pick it up again.

The suspend and resume function isn't a hardware feature with Arm. Steam Deck actually has that exact feature if you continue to use it's default OS.

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware

"We’ve built a quick suspend / resume feature into SteamOS. Press the power button, and Steam Deck will suspend your game and go into sleep mode. Push the power button again and it will wake up right where you left off."

Awesome! I thought you needed Arm to make that happen easily, but I'm glad I did not know better. Thanks for the info!



News of the delay:

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/451443/steam-deck-delayed-to-february-2022/



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The Steam Deck probably won't be much bigger than my Switch with Hori controllers:

I hope the added weight doesn't annoy me too much.



Conina said:

The Steam Deck probably won't be much bigger than my Switch with Hori controllers:

I hope the added weight doesn't annoy me too much.

Nice size comparison.



My mother has been in the hospital for a week now so I did not have much time for posting. Here are the images of the casing. That cardboard box really is interesting.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-12-03-valve-shows-off-steam-decks-cute-carry-case-and-the-cardboard-box-everything-comes-in



The 512 version has a nicer case:

https://dotesports.com/hardware/news/valves-shares-fresh-look-at-512gb-steam-deck-case#gallery-0



farlaff said:

My mother has been in the hospital for a week now so I did not have much time for posting. Here are the images of the casing. That cardboard box really is interesting.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-12-03-valve-shows-off-steam-decks-cute-carry-case-and-the-cardboard-box-everything-comes-in

Dang hope she's alright!



                  

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