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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Shit tier article. No mention of OS.

[–] WavingSmug@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Which means no ability to suspend games.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But it comes with Cortana, and key loggers, and ads!

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

There will be a dedicated copilot button instead of a start button.

[–] Jumpinship@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

hibernation csn perfectly suspend games and bring them back. I have a ton of windows handhelds, no issues

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[–] simple@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not the article's fault, the full details of the device will be announced at CES. It's almost definitely Windows though.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

On a side-note, I wouldn't be surprised if it's supported by Bazzite early on.

[–] rez_doggie@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Batterylife= 45 minutes

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If that chipset has the same issues my Arc a750 has, don't count on being able to play older games.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Being an XE gpu, it most certainly will.

But Intel seems to be making real strides into older game compatibility with each driver update.. I wonder how your GPU and this handheld could possibly improve with time.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

My thoughts exactly, Intel are still trying to break into the gaming market with their graphics, but they have a long history of failing at this.

[–] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I might be mistaken, but these Intel based machines might be better for switch emulation, as they share dedicated hw for the particular form of texture decompression they use. One cool potential upside

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does the fan smell like?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Anime Catgirl bath water

[–] simple@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Sounds impressive, but it means nothing without knowing how much it costs.

Aside from that, the big question mark is how much power it'll use. Even though intel's new chips are way better than the old ones, the 155H still uses a lot more power than AMD. No point in a handheld if it'll get hot quickly and run out of battery in 40 minutes.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why are there only two handheld PCs with touchpads?

[–] windowsphoneguy@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Drivers, probably. Valve did the heavy lifting with the Steam Controller and Steam Input. Other manufacturers don't have a controller abstraction layer they can integrate that into

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the first time I’ve seen “Steam deck” used for a non-Valve device. Gaben may have made the next Kleenex or Bandaid

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago

That was OP though. It's not part of the headline of the article.

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

The same old, tired and stupid control layout and no trackpads. How do you even begin to make a PC handheld and not offer any mouse cursor controls? All the Steam Competitors do is up the specs to stupid numbers and appeal to familiarity. It's both disappointing and something should've expected.