You’d need to plug in the mini PC right? I’m guessing that price for the performance is actually pretty decent for his use case, connecting to AR glasses on the go.
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ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Interesting, but also bizarre. I mean, you don’t buy the Steam Deck for the hardware, the portability with controllers, trackpads and so on is the main thing about it. Or is the hardware cheap for what it is? Can just buy one of those mini pcs and put Bazzite on it instead.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Diurnambule@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
And the battery is integrated to the brick. Their is no hardware for sale for this kind of thing. You have to customers build everything and make some customizations to the OS. I tried a project like this years ago with a raspberry pi and a vufine as a screen. The customization were heavy and the thing was barely able to run any game for 300€ of hardware.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah, saw an article about a ~$600 battery powered mini PC that would’ve possibly been a slightly less involved alternative, but it seems like it has been wiped from existence.
On a side note, I bet it’s a lot more durable without the screen but it’s a shame he couldn’t put a protective layer over it that slid on and off, would’ve really made it way cooler than just a mini pocket PC
Diurnambule@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Yeah or a screen cover like flip flop phone. That still a cool starting point for modders. The know issues are pretty much a no go for now. Especially the inability to go in the bios
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Possibly if you destroy your deck but the mobo survives
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Possibly for 2029 when used Decks become cheap and readily available and great candidates for lightweight HTPCs. Hell, I can see someone who’s put a lot of miles on an original Deck doing this to their original one after getting an updated one/competitor in like a year or two from now. You don’t need to do any modding for that to be honest, but a small device with a screen collecting dust probably looks worse than a box. At least that’s my impression from my Switch. I can see people finding a handheld upgrade more worth it than a PC upgrade (the first 5090 presale listings are up where I am and they’re north of 3000$).
Seriously, I’ve played lots of less-demanding games on my TV via a docked Deck, and it’s been surprisingly nice. A lot of these bundled games I wouldn’t have even tried. What the Golf is a silly mobile game that I got in a bundle that I ended up playing on the big screen. And I’ve bought a lot of bundles in the past, so I’ve got a lot of games to try.
For more demanding games that the system can play, you get tiny battery life. So this does make more things more playable. So I get it.