Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve

Sludig

Potato del Grande
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If this was actually around 750 with a decent amount of hdd space not the joke they offer it would actually be appealing. Unlucky
Impossible in current environment, I've seen comparisons of DIY and they came up with a roughly $71 premium over if you just built it yourself.
 

spronk

FPS noob
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31,233
Who is this actually for at this price
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Sludig

Potato del Grande
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oh i know and thats why its goofy as hell to buy this thing lol
I mean 2 ways of looking at it. Goofy to buy this, but also goofy to buy any other weak machine at these prices. It was always expected to have these components pretty early on, people know it was poors or a 2ndary computer. Just market killed that. But that price disruption does the same thing, a build that was 1800, now can easily run 3k+ (depending whether we are considering 5090's vs compromising) So it's a just sucks to be a PC master race more than I see it as a fail on steams part
 

Fucker

Log Wizard
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41,068
I mean 2 ways of looking at it. Goofy to buy this, but also goofy to buy any other weak machine at these prices. It was always expected to have these components pretty early on, people know it was poors or a 2ndary computer. Just market killed that. But that price disruption does the same thing, a build that was 1800, now can easily run 3k+ (depending whether we are considering 5090's vs compromising) So it's a just sucks to be a PC master race more than I see it as a fail on steams part
That's all there is to it. I just did a quick rundown on PCpartspicker, and came up with pretty much the same price as Valve.

What you get with this is a small and mostly silent package that fits under the TV. 4 years ago, this would have been $399.

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Vorph

Silver Baronet of the Realm
12,133
5,890
they say the steam OS can run shockingly efficiently compared to like a windows PC, but i dunno how that will handle stuff.
The OS being efficient and not bloated can somewhat make up for weak cpu/gpu and low system RAM, but nothing can help you play modern games with only 8GB of VRAM.