Quoting: TermyWhy the fuck would you want 4k on a 16" screen? Especially as fractional scaling isn't exactly issue-free yet either...
Other than that, it indeed looks like a nice little machine!

Even if fractional scaling works perfectly with no performance penalty, who favours 4K over 165hz anyway? Anyone favouring 4k over 165hz is out of their mind, especially for a small screen.

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You forgot to mention Coreboot.

Perfect laptop.

Meanwhile, System76 is busy with PopOS 🤦

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In less than a year Steam Deck gamers is now 25% of all Linux gamers out there. Pretty impressive.
If growth continues to speed up due to faster production we can probably see Linux overtaking macOS by the end of next year.

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Quoting: LanzThe lack of touchpads, especially the one on the right for aiming, makes this a non-starter. The Steam Deck is a success because of the control it gives the player. Good luck playing competitively against someone with a mouse when all you have is a joystick.

The same can be said about people gaming with regular mouse on a small 60hz monitor vs those gaming with a gaming mouse on an ultrawide monitor running at 144hz. Yet, people still game on lower end hardware, just as they are gaming on the Steam Deck which obviously still won't compete against a full blown PC with a mouse despite having the touchpad.

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What use is a docking station if you don't have a controller that rivals the Deck's controls?
Valve's next step should be a new Steam Controller.

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Quoting: dpanterClassic Nvidia "support". Are they going to help out at all this time? :neutral:

I think it depends on the progress of this one and how promising it is. If it progresses well nVidia will most likely adopt it and start helping, since that will be cheaper and easier for them than maintaining their own closed driver. However, this depends on whether this new driver is able to meet the same performance levels as the proprietary one.

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Quoting: denyasisI'm definitely interested. But I want to see some good solid benchmarks. I know Ray tracing is all the rage, but I'd really like to see how it compares to cards from the last few years in general gaming.

If it's a good step up from, say my 1070ti and has a decent cooler, at that price, that's an upgrade I can afford!

I would say don't count on ray tracing just yet. I was trying Quake the other night and was getting around 500fps without ray tracing on my RTX 3060 laptop. After switching on ray tracing that went down to around 50fps. This was on FHD screen. On a WQHD (3440x1440) that number went down to around 25fps. So, the penalty you pay for RT is still pretty large and can probably only be afforded on RTX 40 series or something. If you have a big screen (big TV for example) then 4K resolution + higher frame rate gives you better payoff than ray tracing.

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Here is the catch though: if you go for the OLED version you lose FPS. OLED version is 60hz, standard version is 144hz. Going for OLED instead of 144hz is something a gamer should never do.

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Quoting: ElamanOpiskelijaI want Intel to succeed so bad.
BTW, off-topic but it's just impressive how bad of a game Fortnite and Cyberpunk are. And Cyberpunk, at least, has the excuse of beautiful graphics.

and Fortnite has the excuse of supporting split screen in an age where game developers think that nobody should be making physical friends anymore :(
Or maybe they think everyone should just buy a Steam Deck 🤔

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The whole world is into some state of unexplainable shopping frenzy nowadays, so this is not surprising.

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