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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It is Deckard, from the looks of it won’t be as powerful as the steam deck but not because the ARM chip is slow. They said it is just because the effective TDP of the ARM chip (after subtracting all the work it is doing to track the headset and controllers and do the rendering) is like 7 watts, compared to the 15 watts of the steam deck. So you will probably still be able to run some of the more indie games on it. The translation later is also a 10-15% slow-down for CPU bound games, but they said should be negligible for GPU bound games.





  • This is actually the same GPU they already launched last year when they first launched the 16, this version just has improved cooling. The problem is since they launched the first AMD GPU module AMD has yet to launch any more mobile GPUs. 9000 series mobile has yet to be announced or launched, so they can’t really give a new upgraded AMD GPU until then.




  • I have one of these and taking it apart to clean is a nightmare. It will get very moldy and there is no practical way to actually clean one of these, apparently the designers didn’t consider you might want to take it apart to clean it. So I have taken to spraying car AC cleaner into it like once a year. Ideally, you are supposed to clean out your Window AC once a year.

    Oh lol, I didn’t realize the article was about all these flaws. Yeah the issues outlined in this article are basically my experience I plan to eventually replace it with a more traditional window AC that doesn’t have so many mold issues.









  • Don’t think they are lying about the denial, they said they wanted the upgrade to be big and the z2 is marginally better than what the Steam Deck already has. I would guess a Steam Deck 2 is years away, but we might get a Steam Home Console, or maybe the Deckard VR headset. I kinda doubt any of those would run a z2 though. Why would Valve be using an off the shelf chip when they had a custom chip last time?