Spiracle

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should i wait a Sale to buy the Steam Deck?? | [Discussion]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Refurbished ones are just as good as fresh ones, and basically always "on sale" since their price is reduced.

  2. Valve seems to be moving towards a very likely Steam Deck Refresh. Very little is known about when or how this will happen. Based on previous comments and data-mining, the refresh will have the exact same amount of gaming-power. It may, however, have a better WiFi-chip, better screen, and stuff like that. Nothing is certain and if you want a Deck soon-ish, I wouldn’t recommend waiting for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Screen and battery are the top pain points both Griffais and fellow designer Lawrence Yang want to address in a Steam Deck sequel, too, they told me in late 2022.

  From the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] With the recent rumors of a possible hardware refresh, what are your most hoped for changes in an updated Steam Deck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently, you’re getting both HDR and VRR on the current Steam Deck soon. Currently, in the Preview version, soon-ish in stable.

  Announcement: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/3686804163591367815

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[News] Updates to the linux kernel 6.6 suggest a hardware refresh/variant of the Steam Deck is in development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild speculation: May this be for the Deckard instead? While I would expect that to run on a newer processing unit, I’d expect the Deckard to come before any hardware refresh.

  Not sure if there is a world where this makes sense, though. Perhaps they are using that APU internally for prototypes? Not sure if it would be added to the kernel for that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn’t the steamdeck hibernate by default?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It lets the battery discharge to 90% while plugged in. If you’re not using it for a few days you should still unplug.