Steam deck or laptop for the same price

[iTsSaisaMan]

I need a portable gaming kind of pc and i want to know opinions of users on it. If i end up buying a steam deck i was thinking of the middle man 256 gb

[Boblin the Goblin]

Depends on what you are wanting to play on it. The Deck is priced that way because of the form factor and portability. A laptop for the same price will be more powerful but you lose the ease-of-use that the Deck has.

[iTsSaisaMan]

Originally posted by SlowMango:

Depends on what you are wanting to play on it. The Deck is priced that way because of the form factor and portability. A laptop for the same price will be more powerful but you lose the ease-of-use that the Deck has.

Mainly play multiplayer games, can you compare more or less what the steam deck equals to in pc specs like cpu ram and gpu

[Mahjik]

I would use YouTube, Reddit, or any of the other usual hangouts and look up the multiplayer games you want to play, and Steam Deck. Make sure it supports what you want to do.

[iTsSaisaMan]

yt is biased

Originally posted by Mahjik:

I would use YouTube, Reddit, or any of the other usual hangouts and look up the multiplayer games you want to play, and Steam Deck. Make sure it supports what you want to do.

yt is biased

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by ItzSaisaMan:

yt is biased

Originally posted by Mahjik:

I would use YouTube, Reddit, or any of the other usual hangouts and look up the multiplayer games you want to play, and Steam Deck. Make sure it supports what you want to do.

yt is biased

Take off the tin foil hat. It's not. If something doesn't run on the Deck (or really SteamOS), you'll see it. The good curators also list what they are running the game with. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBIGxpXr7Oo

That game doesn't work on SteamOS. You can see in the comments he say's he's running it via Windows 10.

[iTsSaisaMan]

Originally posted by Mahjik:

Originally posted by ItzSaisaMan:

yt is biased


yt is biased

Take off the tin foil hat. It's not. If something doesn't run on the Deck (or really SteamOS), you'll see it. The good curators also list what they are running the game with. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBIGxpXr7Oo

That game doesn't work on SteamOS. You can see in the comments he say's he's running it via Windows 10.

i thought you were talking about steam deck opinions on yt not benchmarks

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by ItzSaisaMan:

i thought you were talking about steam deck opinions on yt not benchmarks

I'm not talking about either. I'm talking about you doing research on the games you want to play to see if the Deck supports them.

[[?]legit]

If you chose a handheld, do not get the steam deck. Wait for the lenovo legion go, which is a major improvement in almost every aspect, The steam deck has not the performance to run modern games, and it only has a terrible, low quality, low res screen.

[iTsSaisaMan]

Originally posted by ?legit:

If you chose a handheld, do not get the steam deck. Wait for the lenovo legion go, which is a major improvement in almost every aspect, The steam deck has not the performance to run modern games, and it only has a terrible, low quality, low res screen.

Its double the price of a steam deck

[iTsSaisaMan]

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Can you tell me a little bit about the good the bad and the ugly of the steam deck ?

[Drak3]

Originally posted by ItzSaisaMan:

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Can you tell me a little bit about the good the bad and the ugly of the steam deck ?

The main 'bad' is that some games don't work, mostly games with anticheat. Some of the newest AAA games also don't run great either, but that's not just a Deck issue, many of these games don't run that well on handhelds in general.

The good is that the Deck can get really good battery life for an x86 handheld in certain games. If you like games like Etrian Odyssey or Disgaea, you can drop TDP more on the Deck and get more play time than on handhelds like the ROG Ally.
Performance at 15W is roughly the same between the Deck and the Ally, and 10W and below, the Deck pulls ahead.
The Deck also doesn't run Windows, it runs a version of Linux that's tailor made for a handheld. It's better in every way except game compatibility, Windows on a handheld is just a headache.

The ugly (and this applies to most handhelds in general) is that it's only got 1 USB port.

The Deck doesn't really have much against it that's unique to the Deck. Most cons are essentially true of most or all other handhelds.

[dipshit]

get a used pc i have one upgraded it to a 512gb nvme ssd and the piece of crap just stutters on every game even at the lowest settings

[iTsSaisaMan]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

get a used pc i have one upgraded it to a 512gb nvme ssd and the piece of crap just stutters on every game even at the lowest settings

what do you play

[iTsSaisaMan]

Originally posted by Drak3:

Originally posted by ItzSaisaMan:

Can you tell me a little bit about the good the bad and the ugly of the steam deck ?

The main 'bad' is that some games don't work, mostly games with anticheat. Some of the newest AAA games also don't run great either, but that's not just a Deck issue, many of these games don't run that well on handhelds in general.

The good is that the Deck can get really good battery life for an x86 handheld in certain games. If you like games like Etrian Odyssey or Disgaea, you can drop TDP more on the Deck and get more play time than on handhelds like the ROG Ally.
Performance at 15W is roughly the same between the Deck and the Ally, and 10W and below, the Deck pulls ahead.
The Deck also doesn't run Windows, it runs a version of Linux that's tailor made for a handheld. It's better in every way except game compatibility, Windows on a handheld is just a headache.

The ugly (and this applies to most handhelds in general) is that it's only got 1 USB port.

The Deck doesn't really have much against it that's unique to the Deck. Most cons are essentially true of most or all other handhelds.

ty

[[?]legit]

Originally posted by ItzSaisaMan:

Originally posted by ?legit:

If you chose a handheld, do not get the steam deck. Wait for the lenovo legion go, which is a major improvement in almost every aspect, The steam deck has not the performance to run modern games, and it only has a terrible, low quality, low res screen.

Its double the price of a steam deck

Double the pricing? The 1TB steam deck version costs $649.

If you chose the cheapest 64GB version, you will have to upgrade your storage.

You may also have to invest further money into a kickstand, peripheral devices, etc. The Legion go has everything included already. Not to mention the superior performance. You are going to run modern games in 30 fps 800p on the steam deck.

Again, not the best time to buy a deck now, when you have such innovations around the corner.

My guess is that the legion go can be the first viable handheld, that could provide a reasonable gaming experience. If you're budget is only $399 I suggest buying a used gaming laptop.