Steam Deck/Oled-Rog Ally-Legion Go

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

If you would buy a new Handheld….what would be the device of your choice and why?

[Drak3]

Deck OLED. Having an LCD Deck, Ally, and Legion Go, the Deck is the least frustrating since you don’t need to use a desktop UI to use it normally at any point, plus it can achieve much better battery life when playing lightweight games.

Plus, the Go isn’t super comfortable to use thanks to its squared off controller faces, and it’s STILL missing a good solution for an Xbox Guide button.
The original Ally still kills SD cards and has poor battery life in the best case scenarios, both of which are hypothetically fixed with the Ally X, but whether that’s true long term is a huge “if” with ASUS.

[tfk]

Neither because I already own two Steam Deck's.

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Man you have them all lol. Thats what i call an enthusiast:)

[Mahjik]

If I didn't already take a chance on the Steam Deck when it first released, I would have gravitated toward a Windows handheld (and I was already looking at the OneX an other handhelds when Steam did their announcement). Not because I love Windows, but because Windows is familiar. However, now having used the Steam Deck, I love that the OS feels less like a standard consumer operating system. It feels like something bespoke for purpose.

That being said, I also believe in Valve's vision. Valve is trying to get developers bad to the days when they actually optimized their games. At one point in time. there were no such things as gaming laptops. Developers actually spent time catering to lower hardware requirements. At some point, things changed and game developers now just expect everyone to continue to upgrade their gaming equipment to play their newest games and they stopped spending any cycles on optimizations.

Some may not care about that, and there is nothing wrong with it. I do care about it so that's important to me.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Drak3:

The original Ally still kills SD cards

To be fair its not like every original Ally does that. I had mine for 7 months now and used SD cards since day 1 and both the slot and all SD cards i used so far still work fine.
Its definitely a noticeable problem for the old ROG ALLY but nothing that happens on all of them.

[Drak3]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Drak3:

The original Ally still kills SD cards

To be fair its not like every original Ally does that. I had mine for 7 months now and used SD cards since day 1 and both the slot and all SD cards i used so far still work fine.
Its definitely a noticeable problem for the old ROG ALLY but nothing that happens on all of them.

It was due to a design flaw that every Ally uses, where the reader's hardware is being cooked into failure. Every one will eventually fail due to that design flaw, which is hypothetically fixed with the Ally X.

BTW, using an SD card is not even required for the reader to be cooked to death. The Ally will kill its own reader just cooking it with the APU's heatsink and the power delivery circuitry.

[Ogami]

Guess since i never use the ROG ALLY in "Turbo" mode and turned of the CPU BOOST i most likely wont have to worry about it. Because the highest temp my ROG reached so far during gaming was 60-65 degree Celsius or so.
The slot and SD cards seem to be fine under 80-85 degree which is only reached if you really crank up the ROG to max performance and plugged in Turbo mode.
Which i never do because of the fan noise alone. Also so far everything i played ran fine at 15 Watt "Performance" mode.