All (most?) of your games will run on your future computers.

Used the motherboard from a broken steamdeck to make mini PC. $100 and an anbernic for the motherboard (and battery and shell).

I just hope this kicks off a revolution of not needing stupid GPUs requirements.

Waiting for what?

Steam deck without the screen. And with a controller.

They must be waiting for the Steam Deck 2 so it’ll at least be 1080p natively.

Htpc?

God damn. What are the specs on those? I gotta check out some government auctions.

“There’s been great tricks that [Xbox] taught us,” Howard said. “My favorite one in Morrowind is, if you’re running low on memory, you can reboot the original Xbox and the user can’t tell. You can throw, like, a screen up. When Morrowind loads sometimes, you get a very long load. That’s us rebooting the Xbox. That was like a hail Mary.”

That’s interesting but that’s still in that one game. This thing sounds like it allows you to play burned roms forever afterwards, which means it really affects the system itself.

How exactly can a code on a game affect the system itself?

There’s a reason why they released it before Christmas.

The new chip is supposed to be more efficient, so quieter fan makes sense.

Is the new hardware saving valve money?

Very interesting results, seems to be quite good. That’s the kind of info I was looking for, thanks for running the tests.

Pardon if I wasn’t clear, this would be with the same motherboard and chipset as the steamdeck (added that to the post). Economies of scale should get it cheaper than competitors, for the budget market. Steamdeck is now popular enough many games want to make sure it runs on it, it’s a strong development point and I expect future versions well get even stronger. And you also get long term support (I’m reading how nvidia drops Linux support long term).

Edited to “CPU intensive programs”.

I think they would do very well in the budget gaming laptop sector. Also running Linux gets you (should get you) even further on the same hardware. So my question is how powerful is it for non-gaming.