Will the Steam Deck be the Best Handheld PC?

so back to back to the a and eo a little bit let's talk some let's talk some pros and cons uh one of the things that a neo has is it's got way more usb expansion so it's got two usbc ports on the top that is flippin awesome uh it's got two more cpu cores okay it's got uh so it's got a ryzen 5 4500u that is a six core processor it's got uh let me have a look here what other sort of advantages it i mean i don't know if this one is actually making its way into the general public's hands but it has like built-in rgb lighting which i guess is kind of cool in the dark so you can see these green lights on the side i believe they can be configured they're breathing right now um what's the size of the battery i think it actually says right on the back here um 47 watt hours so i think that's actually a little less if i recall correctly no it's actually a little bit more so it has a slightly bigger battery uh it takes full-sized 80 millimeter nvme uh drives so that's pretty cool as well but it doesn't have six axis uh motion controls uh it doesn't have the touch pads um i haven't seen valve's screen yet but i i suspect the one on the uh the one on the steam i keep playing we'll come wanting to call the steam pad now the one on the steam deck is probably going to be a little bit better this one is this one is pretty good they're both seven inches the point is these are fairly comparable devices oh the speakers are pretty bad on this thing to the point where apparently they're they're still tuning those now um and it's 50 more at the cheapest early bird price and then this thing was 789 and they sold 500 out of 500 of them this is a campaign that did 2. to like 2.2 2.3 million us dollars and to this day you cannot buy this thing because it is out of stock okay so you can say oh yeah valve is charging too much or whatever but if anything by offering that 64 gig emmc option with microsd expansion they have clearly done everything in their power to make this thing as affordable as possible this is not some cheapo arm soc this is a full fledged pc it's freaking awesome and i'm not some kind of valve fanboy i have no problem calling them out when they do something stupid but you gotta understand that you gotta give credit where credit is due this hardware has a cost developing hardware has a cost and we can't expect valve to just give it away at a loss like i don't they're a for-profit company what do you guys want i'm i'm excited to get my hands on this thing and i think it's going to be a dinner beef in floatplane chat says gabe said hitting that price was not easy i believe him oh yeah definitely yeah if the plastics quality of this thing not to mention just the the cost of getting them all assembled like there's a production cost of these things if it's anywhere near what i would expect from valve based on my other valve hardware this thing would have cost a freaking fortune to pre to to create now angry panda pc over in floatplane chat says the price to value debate doesn't make any sense on this device and i criticize so many modern devices for being overpriced actually no i have no idea what you're talking about so value's in the eye of the beholder you can say it's not worth it to me absolutely that is a hundred percent i think this is going to be not worth it to a lot of people of course but that's okay that's fine fine it's just not yeah not everything has to be for everyone value is in the eye of the beholder but the price is aggressive jr6955 says psv to msrp249 you you got to understand like sorry what what are you talking about that's the 100 guy just don't oh is it really oh okay yeah yeah you're good don't worry about that smaller companies like gpd have been bringing out devices like this for years now and they've always been pretty okay but this last generation i was extremely bullish on the gpd win three uh we covered the a neo founder we covered the oh man what's that thing called the one x player all three of them were like pretty cool and had their pros and cons uh the one x player screen resolution was too high you couldn't drive it honestly it was too big at what was it like almost nine inches die 8.4 inches kind of too bulky the gpd win3 great a little bit hampered by its xc graphics honestly not because the performance sucks but because the drivers are an absolute mess or at least they were back when i covered it and then i think the a neo is the one that has struck the best balance out of all of those three i absolutely freaking love this thing you can see that i'm uh in the middle of a super mario rpg run through right now i've been using it for retro games i've been using it for modern games the seven inch screen is freaking awesome 720p at that size it's fine and that's a lot of what i based my take uh for this switch oled my take that 720p was still okay even with the larger screen was actually based on doing so much of my gaming on the a neo lately and finding it it's fine yeah it's not the sharpest thing ever whatever you want the sharpest thing ever go get an iphone like it's not like you can't get a sharper display but if you want to play pc games i'd rather run them at native at a lower native resolution than running at a non-native resolution on my awesome high resolution display and the same is going to be true of the switch since nintendo didn't upgrade the hardware i i don't know maybe i'm maybe i'm being kind of defensive about this because you know i can see the work they put into it i can see the cost they put into it i'm extremely excited i'm passionate about these handheld pcs becoming a thing and i'm just finding this thing really exciting and so maybe i'm not being completely objective uh but i'm excited now now i want to know how stupid uh does dell feel okay do you remember this thing hold on a second uh in in in valve's statements and they did this with the the steam pc as well i don't think they're trying to win this market i'm trying to i think they're trying to push this market forward so i don't think dell is out yeah but they've lost a lot of mind share by not just shipping this thing it's for sure yeah they showed it a year and a half ago in a basically working state so yeah that's a little rough yeah and back to me being really passionate and defending this thing video cards has this excellent little table of all the similar products here so you've got your nintendo switch and switch light you've got your gpd win3 hold on a second let me blow this up okay apparently i cannot well whatever call that good enough uh your gpd win3 they've all got their pros and cons the wind 3's got this keyboard so if you you know enter text often but not that often you know that can be pretty cool i guess it's smaller this is actually pocketable whereas none of these other ones are particularly pocketable it's only got a five and a half inch display um the a neo man this this thing is freaking awesome um probably a very very similar spec to what we're gonna get with the steam i keep struggling i keep struggling to to come up with the name um the the steam deck uh hold on i actually want to double check because i didn't remember this thing having six cores but maybe i'm just yeah i'm drunk it does it totally has six cores six threads uh the the uh 1x player right here it has the biggest screen but kind of hampered by xc graphics blah blah blah like they've all got their pros and cons i think aneo also has like pretty pretty compelling pricing even though it's higher it's actually higher than the steam deck um man okay there's a few things actually as someone who would be likely to just install windows on the thing because there's stuff that i do on it other than just you know use a browser and play games uh also windows is just my comfort zone the a neo looks like a probably a better windows machine just because they've got these like these shortcut keys so you've got a windows button whoop whoop there we go you got a windows button you've got a button to bring up the on-screen keyboard escape task manager task manager is really useful because no it's really useful because you're putting you that way i was frowning because i was thinking in my head like you might be able to bind some of the keys on the probably some of the names because it's so bad but steam deck but yeah you could probably bind some of those to those types of functions but yeah sorry keep going maybe you could you don't want to hit them by accident either though um but maybe you could bind some of the front ones if you use the back ones more often which honestly i think someone who's like min maxing their experience because of that hand position thing i was talking about might do that i guess so know yeah i like anyway the point is i like those buttons also believe it or not um i like the i like the top uh abxy i like the top abxy i don't like the symmetrical joysticks i think that the steam deck is gonna is gonna win me over anyway just because they're they're kind of in line you just reach over your abx y if you need the dual joysticks i'm pretty into that but it's the kind of thing that i'm gonna have to actually get hands on with before i can draw any kind of conclusion one big downer about the a neo is that these triggers are not analog they are just binary on or off triggers but my understanding is that the a neo is they said you can bind the touch pads apparently that's something that i probably wouldn't use so that i could be pretty into that uh oh you could you could probably bind parts of the touchpad i would think so yeah because if i recall correctly you could do cool stuff like that on the steam controller you might even be able to do gestures yep task manager like an x all right that could be pretty cool that'd be pretty sweet that could be pretty cool oh man i'm excited man uh everyone's an analyst peeves says uh no not peeves uh hold on a second ah blah blah blah nico you says or nico a neo and gpd's fault is the moment when they chose to use windows yep but you got to understand they didn't have the development resources to build proton i mean what other company other than valve could possibly have tackled that project hit me with one yeah i mean yeah maybe maybe epic you know could have pushed into it earlier to because so many games are powered by unreal engine you know like there's but there's companies that could but they wouldn't have the experience or the expertise to really do it properly the motivation or the yeah there's basically no one else that's gonna do it yeah microsoft yeah nice yeah sure yeah for sure there for sure there bud they could yeah uh oh oh whoa i missed something whoa anthony pointed out the a neo has vega graphics and the steam deck has rdna ii graphics so uh in terms of gpu i would expect the steam deck to be significantly more powerful while cpu on the aneo might be a touch better but we don't know it would only be for applications that will really take advantage of those extra course

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Length: 12min 13sec (733 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 20 2021