I ditched my gaming PC for cloud gaming when hardware prices spiraled out of control
…We saw prices begin to crawl up across the board, but the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the news that the Steam Deck's price was increasing…
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Cost is a major consideration when it comes to handhelds, and to pretend otherwise would be folly. In the aspect of pricing, Steam Deck OLED continues to decisively pull ahead of the competitors, and there's a special reason for this, which I have talked extensively about in the past. Valve has an ability to sell its handhelds at cost because of a structural advantage that no other handheld manufacturer does. Unlike ASUS or Lenovo, Valve isn't primarily in the hardware business. As a storefront operator collecting a commission on every purchase made through Steam, Valve can afford to price har
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I've been running SteamOS on a non-Steam mini PC, and it makes a better living room console than I expected
…have the high price tag for some enticing features. Related I built a Steam Machine out of spare PC parts and you can, too If you have old PC hardware lying around…
Valve's Steam Machine delay forced me to DIY, and honestly it's better this way
…Related I turned my gaming handheld into a Steam Deck and I love it You don't need a Steam Deck... do you? Bazzite also comes with Lutris preinstalled, so you can…
FSR 4.1 made older Radeon cards interesting again, but not for the reason AMD wants
…and standalone manufacturers aren't able to ship next-generation devices at sustainable price points. The Steam Deck saw a $240 markup just this week, and other major handhelds are more or…
AMD's handheld driver support is so bad that Linux is starting to look like the better choice
…I opted for GNOME to make it visually different from my Steam Deck, but really, it wouldn't have mattered if I had gone with KDE. And a few other programs supply…
I put my Steam library on my NAS, and it was both brilliant and stupid
…I’ve reused an old PCIe Gen 4 SSD that’s seen plenty of action on my old gaming laptop for this experiment, which can easily hit 6,000MB/s in transfer…
Intel's gaming handhelds went from a punchline to rivaling AMD, and the chip is only half the reason
…Valve built SteamOS around AMD silicon that's less powerful than the Z1 Extreme, yet the Steam Deck is arguably what made the whole category mainstream. As well, FSR is supported just…
This $200 Android gaming handheld is the ultimate retro hit with Linux
…Related I installed Bazzite on the Steam Deck, and I regret it I tried it, so you don't have to.
Windows on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is finally what Arm laptops should have been
…I happily played Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p in Steam Deck mode at an average of 62 fps , which looked spectacular on this OLED screen. BTW, I tried the low ray tracing setting…
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