- HipsterTenZero ( @HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ) 59•8 months ago
just shove a 4090 and a forklift battery in there, ez
- TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) 26•8 months ago
But then you’d need to get forklift certified to operate the thing
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 16•8 months ago
no problem for me
- onion ( @onion@feddit.de ) 8•8 months ago
Damn fella, save some ussy for the rest of us!
- Tak ( @Tak@lemmy.ml ) 43•8 months ago
With how close they’ve been working with AMD I wouldn’t doubt if they know what is in the works and are waiting for that tech to mature.
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English9•8 months ago
Yeah, gamers Nexus was saying that the stream deck guys were telling them that they were waiting for the tech to get good enough to be able to call the device steam deck 2, but that’s probably a couple of years out.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 4•8 months ago
No doubt required, they’ve stated as much.
- Dalek Thal ( @Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone ) 15•8 months ago
Cool, does this mean they’ll actually fucking sell the thing in Australia, or is it just forever going to be dodgy resellers?
- jol ( @jol@discuss.tchncs.de ) 17•8 months ago
The technology to ship this to Australia just doesn’t exist yet.
- And009 ( @And009@reddthat.com ) 7•8 months ago
They even need a upside down type c cable
- TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) 13•8 months ago
🎵dream on🎵dream on🎵dream on🎵dream on🎵
- dewritoninja ( @dewritoninja@pawb.social ) 10•8 months ago
Welcome to the south American experience
- onlinepersona ( @onlinepersona@programming.dev ) English13•8 months ago
Imagine Valve going the Apple route: “Fuck it, we will design our own hardware to suit our needs” and making hardware tailored to linux.
Edit: what about qualcomm’s new ARM: Snapdragon X Elite?
- cordlesslamp ( @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ) 5•8 months ago
Aren’t the AMD in Deck 1 using x86 architecture? It would be impossible to change to ARM now. That would mean starting at square 1 and redesigning everything. And games compatibility would be thrown out the window.
- FaeDrifter ( @FaeDrifter@midwest.social ) English1•8 months ago
Won’t ever happen, Apple is a hardware and device company that also makes software to go with it; Valve is a software company that also makes hardware to go with it.
And to go arm would mean throwing out the majority of their current store. Plus arm gaming performance is trash, apples chips struggle to run games 10 years old at 1080p 60fps.
- onlinepersona ( @onlinepersona@programming.dev ) English1•8 months ago
Apple made its own chips with the Woz and then became a software company with that dude who got cancer. Only with the M1 did they design their own hardware again. Or am I getting this wrong?
What’s to stop Valve from owning the vertical?
And to go arm would mean throwing out the majority of their current store.
That really depends on the game studio support or how good the translation is. Wine games sometimes have better performance than when running on Windows (how they do that magic is beyond me), but adding another layer to translate from x86 to ARM isn’t insane. Even Apple wants to do it and they hate compatibility.
Plus arm gaming performance is trash, apples chips struggle to run games 10 years old at 1080p 60fps.
Apple is trash - that we can agree on, but does the chipset really hinder an APU from getting a better GPU? Nvidia is going to enter the ARM space and if they have an inbuilt GPU to make it an APU, then it might blow the Apple chips out of the water in terms of gaming.
Anyway, all I’m saying is I’d welcome “Made for Linux” hardware.
- SamXavia ( @SamXavia@kbin.run ) 9•8 months ago
From what I’ve seen of the Steam Deck there’s not far that it can go to improve as of the moment but in the next 10 years there’s going to be needing another one as newer games like GTA 6 and stuff come around and eventually be on PC the tech is going to really show it’s age.
- clayh ( @clayh@lemmy.ml ) 14•8 months ago
Valve’s hardware strategy up to this point has been to push into new markets via hardware innovation. So I’m very skeptical that the hypothetical successor to the deck is a more powerful version of the deck. They’ll let other hardware manufacturers push those limits and reap the benefits via software sales. The deck was exceptionally successful in that regard, it’s literally opened an entire market segment.
Whatever the “Deck 2” comes to be, I expect it will be poised to capture a different market segment, possibly AR/VR or even modular handheld hardware (totally unfounded speculation), but I sincerely doubt they have much interest in releasing a more powerful version of the same thing every few years.
Who knows, though. Valve’s gonna valve and the only thing they do with any consistency is change things up.
- HobbitFoot ( @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) English13•8 months ago
I disagree. I feel more like Steam has been focusing on being able to decouple from Windows. The hardware it has developed was paired with other initiatives to move beyond the Windows desktop. They are now at a point where they’ve basically created their own Switch that can run without Windows.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Steam finally makes consumer Linux on the desktop a thing.
- BolexForSoup ( @BolexForSoup@kbin.social ) 10•8 months ago
Why spend all those years and all that capital/manpower on R&D for a handheld that is widely touted as a success only to never use any of those lessons ever again? I can’t imagine they’re just going to one-and-done the Steamdeck. Seems like a massive waste to me.
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 5•8 months ago
Maybe steamdeck 2 will be an arm processor
- ampersandrew ( @ampersandrew@kbin.social ) 9•8 months ago
Not unless they’ve got better x64->ARM translation than Apple does right now.
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 2•8 months ago
Why does it matter if they have a better translation now? The steamdeck 2 is a long way away. By the time steamdeck 2 releases I imagine their translation layer will be better than apples is today but probably not better than apples will be when steamdeck 2 releases.
- ampersandrew ( @ampersandrew@kbin.social ) 4•8 months ago
If it’s not, then it’ll never work, which is why Apple’s endeavor is doomed too. There’s such a massive back catalogue of games that we can’t, won’t, and shouldn’t abandon that unless you’ve got x64 translation as good as Proton is for Windows translation, or better, switching to ARM will never work for the latest greatest games. I think that switch to ARM is nearly inevitable, but that translation needs to be excellent first.
- Stumblinbear ( @Stumblinbear@pawb.social ) 1•8 months ago
They’ll release a second one, but never a third. It’s what they do
- clayh ( @clayh@lemmy.ml ) 1•8 months ago
Steam Deck: Linyx
- Lojcs ( @Lojcs@lemm.ee ) 3•8 months ago
Qc X elite says hi
Edit: 2.5-3.5x faster cpu and 2x faster gpu at slightly higher tdp (23W vs 19W). Even if the arm x86 emulation has 40% overhead it’d still be faster and more efficient especially at lower power limits where arm shines.
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 1•8 months ago
GPD WIN 4 would like to have a word
- ampersandrew ( @ampersandrew@kbin.social ) 8•8 months ago
It seems like a minor increment over the Steam Deck. Valve is targeting performance per watt, and what’s available in a handheld right now isn’t going to start running The Quarry at high settings and 60 FPS.
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 months ago
I just want usb4 and on top of that the gpd has oculink.
- anon232 ( @anon232@lemm.ee ) 3•8 months ago
Bruh that psp knockoff looks like straight garbage to use compared to the deck.
- T (they/she) ( @Templa@beehaw.org ) 2•8 months ago
It looks so much like a Vita it is quite funny
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 1•8 months ago
Dont you mean awesome?