Honestly this is impressive.

Valve has spent a lot of time trying to kill the Windows beast. These Frame standalone titles are running with an additional ARM translation layer on top (as I understand it – please correct me if wrong), so it isn’t trivial that they’re running locally on the device. There are implications for this down the road for other devices, considering how much ARM absolutely kills it versus x86 in the battery life department.

I’m planning to have a desktop rig plugged into the wall as long as I’m able, but it isn’t a stretch to say that the writing is on the wall in terms of power consumption (modulo any major breakthroughs on the x86 side).