Valve Announces Steam Deck As Portable SteamOS + AMD Powered Portable PC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Valve Announces Steam Deck As Portable SteamOS + AMD Powered Portable PC

Following months of rumors about new gaming hardware from Valve, today they announced Steam Deck as a new handheld PC gaming device starting at $399...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Deck

[Alexmitter]

Now we know what all the work was for.

[JPFSanders]

Excellent!

It is an open PC!

[scottishduck]

Now we wait and see if this new SteamOS gets a full release…

[Ananace]

Really looking forwards to the Proton work this is spearheading, will be amazing to be able to finally get play those last few leftovers in my library again.

[Jabberwocky]

Here I'm still waiting for a decent APU for my desktop. AMD doesn't even sell highend 4000 series APUs to the public, now we see zen+navi+ddr5 damn son...

These devices are looking good and with the global gpu shortage I think it will sell quickly.

[xorbe]

Tech specs: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech

Assuming the ram is single channel, for a device this small.

[M@GOid]

The APU is a quad-core Zen2 plus 8 core RDNA 2 GPU. A little less power than I was hopping for, but for a portable were battery life is everything, is not bad at all.

And they at least will try to hold back scalpers a bit. To reserve and buy one (this year at last), you must have a valid Steam account and had made a purchase up to last month. So scalpers creating new accounts are screwed.

[AHOY]

Arch and KDE Plasma

Looks like Valve doesn't read Phoronix Qt FUD

[EvilHowl]

Tech specs: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech

Assuming the ram is single channel, for a device this small.

What has the size of the device to do with that?