Biggest improvement is probably the 30-50% increase in battery life. The deck already gets much better battery life than the ROG Ally or Lenovo Go (especially on low demanding games, it can get 2-4x the battery life), so this will further cement it as the best handheld PC for actually playing without the device plugged in.
I mean running the same game at the same settings/resolution/etc the Deck will get significantly better battery life. You can offset this somewhat by using task manager to close background processes in windows, but it still takes a lot more power to run stuff on the ROG Ally than the deck.
An example from Ally reviews was Stardew valley ran at 6-8w on the deck, but was pulling 16-20w on the Ally with same settings. Using task manager to close windows processes for the Ally down to the 12-15w range, but that’s still a huge jump. This isn’t even taking into consideration that you can tweak deck performance settings to run Stardew valley at a much lower power setting, I’ve seen people go as low as 3.8w giving them 10+ hours of battery life.
I love my steam deck, I also just got it like 2 months ago. If I knew this was coming, I might've waited. Either way, my girlfriend is probably going to get a cool hand me down in the next couple months.
One reviewer mentioned disappointment that it’s still a full 11.7" long and 2" thick. I realize that some people are not built for that kind of size, but I enjoy the heft and find the ergonomics of the original pleasing. I find that it stands out among smaller equipment and any substantial reduction would limit the versatility and, quite frankly, my overall enjoyment.
Every other handheld tucks the right analog stick under the ABXY which makes it significantly less comfortable and way more difficult to use. Can’t believe NO ONE has copied that design. Yes, it’s bigger/wider but it’s well worth the trade-off for the ergonomics, personally.
Jesus dude, you resurrected a 6 year old thread thinking it would still be relevent?
Anyway, you’re lucky you didn’t get banned for spamming - next time, make one (1) new thread about the subject instead of commenting on multiple dead discussions.
No, the reason they’re going to hit a dead end is because you tried to ressurect discussions that finished literally years ago - discussions started by now inactive accounts, replied to by people whose answer won’t have changed. You posted 4 TIMES asking people whose discussions had established there was no 2fa hardware support if there was 2fa hardware support - they had already said no, and you came in between 1 and 6 years later to ask again.
Instead of starting a new, visible discussion on the steam community, where topics are boosted by recent interactions, and it will be seen by the most relevent people, not just the randomers coming through google looking for the same answer as your, but for some reason you chose to ask people who have forgotten they ever needed help with this issue if they ever found an answer.
Lastly, I want to point out how fucking stupid and infantile it is that you’re not only asking the question again, but asking in multiple year old discussions: Steam has repeatedly said that Steamguard is their 2fa, and that’s it. Your “bu- bu- bu- i’m important i need hardware to stop evil hackers from targetting my vibeo gane” is absolutely irrelevent to them, a position they have not been secretive about.
I can’t see them either, they have been purged entirely. Now all thread major threads about security keys are closed and people who think security keys are about card trades(??) and how they don’t protect their precious cards have had the last word that it’s not important to them…
It would never be seen by the vast majority of people, I don’t see the point of creating yet another discussion when there was four of them already going and were some of the top links on google for “steam login security key”
But there’s not going to be any info. All the people who had relevant information, came in from google, hit a closed thread and then left. There will not be a future conversation until the dead wood is cleared by a forest fire.
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