It's lack of availability world wide is unfortunate, but unless Valve agrees to start letting retailers officially carry and sell it I doubt we'll see that change.
I've seen people get 8-10 hours out of the battery playing Stardew on the standard deck, so you could maybe squeeze up to 15 hours out of it on the new Deck. What more can you ask for?
Biggest improvement is probably the 30-50% increase in battery life. The deck already gets much better battery life than the ROG Ally or Lenovo Go (especially on low demanding games, it can get 2-4x the battery life), so this will further cement it as the best handheld PC for actually playing without the device plugged in.
Reading more details on the repairability, they've changed the screws to torx and they all thread into metal thread now. Should prevent screw stripping. They also say internal components are easier to access, but that might just be with the new heat shield design that was already present in recent Steam Decks.
That would be sweet, hopefully the larger battery as well.
That's an excellent point, I updated my summary to show that. Sorry for any confusion.
I don't know if you saw it, but they just announced an OLED Steam Deck earlier today.
Should have the same motherboard/specs based on leaks, just a much better screen.
I'd probably wait and see how much it will sell for, and I'd they discount the non-oled decks.
I think so, but the wording is confusing to me.
Yeah I was confused by the wording of the title.
I'm sure it's a bit of a cat and mouse game, the algorithm was designed to get accurate results, they can't just change it completely to avoid SEO abusers without losing out on real results too. And even if they did change it, SEO abusers would just change to match resulting in the same issue with worse non-abuser results.
For all of google's search issues, they're still the best search engine when it comes to results (outside of a few topics that are censored by google but not other search engines). I use DDG most of the time, but it's bing-powered results are just straight up worse most of the time, especially on technical or more complicated topics. The fact that Google is still the best search engine tells me they're not being lazy with their search algorithms, but that there's a bigger reason why they can't just filter out SEO abuse.
Yeah, I live in a rural area, and in the past few years my internet went from 3Mb/s DSL to 1000Mb/s fiber. Previously people on my road had to use Dish, but seems a lot of people are glad to drop it as soon as they get a good alternative option.
It's supposedly considered the same APU according to the different leaks we've seen. The 6nm is supposed to increase power efficiency but that's it.