I think we’re going to need to see a generational shift in compute before we see steam deck two. I have the original deck, and the OLED. Kicked down the original to a friend. Both are great pieces of kit. I’ve basically survived without a gaming machine for almost 4 years because of these devices. I’ve experienced almost 0 desegregation on either. Just phenomenal devices.

I’ve finally bit the bullet on a more serious machine (for both work and pleasure). I’ve got a Asus ROG Flow Z13 on back order, the 128gb variant. I think this is the direction things are going to go. We just can’t make CPU’s/ Video cards faster/ more efficient if we keep them separated.

My speculation: the next steam deck is going to take on this design, so long as the stryx halo generation proves itself. It might not be a “full force” variant like I’ve bought into, but the rub is the temperatures and power to performance relationship. The stryx halo design is the only thing I’ve seen that would warrant a generation refresh.

eh.

I only have room left in my inventory for the bc pills.

wake me up when they shove a strix halo in

did they shove a strix halo in it?

I mean, excepting that google isn’t even really the main offering when it comes to institutional compute (that’s Microsoft/ azure).

Like IBM had mainframes and legacy infrastructure on lock.

The only thing google really has on lock still is gmail, but honestly, take it or leave it.

They had search, but I get better answers asking a space heater to hallucinate a couple hundred characters for me these days.

I mean if only they could use that AI to generate ultra thin chips.

Here is a link to the uninstaller.