Asus ROG Ally or Steam Deck

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Steam decks are horrible I got a mini PvP that can run a bunch of stuff like Fortnite Minecraft or terraria and I’d say it’s portable because it’s like the size of a mini box

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If you want it I can send you the Amazon link

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Btw I meant to say pc lol

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@HenryLeeFN alright, i want top check the power of it first

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@HenryLeeFN what?! how are steam decks terrible?! they are great!

[HenryLeeFN]

You can get a pc at that point it’s kind of a waste

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@HenryLeeFN The Steam Deck and Ally has a better GPU than this mini PC to run more complex games like The First Descendant?

I used PC Part Picker. I 'can' build a PC for 500 however tne motherboard I believe has bad VRMs and if I upgrade the mobo, I have to resort in worsening other part qualities. Build is Ryzen 5 5500 and AMD RX 6600.

*Note the Ally is 520 GBP on Amazon [censored] of now and it should reach min requirements for TFD, having the Radeon 780M, similar to the GTX 1650 and an okay CPU

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Ok

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I just don’t recommend the steam deck because you could get a good pc with $500

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@HenryLeeFN the steam deck is a good pc, idk what your point is

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It is not a pc

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It is a literal hand held device

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@HenryLeeFN it is, it runs on steamOS which is based on arch linux, the steam deck has a full desktop outside the big picture mode of steam and you can switch between it anytime

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@HenryLeeFN it's a handheld pc, like the rog ally except the specs, shell with buttons and OS are different, they are both still pcs

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@HenryLeeFN note handheld pcs also have incredible price to performance, the rog ally has a better cpu and gpu than that mini pc, and the steam deck, while having a slightly worse cpu, only 4 cores (does not matter much for me), it has a better gpu than the mini pc

TLDR: both steam deck and rog ally are better than the mini pc for gaming

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@HenryLeeFN you also might be confused du to the nintendo switch, which is very closed and limited yet the steam deck and rog ally allows you to do anything that a pc may do, including game dev (game builder garage does not count)

[HenryLeeFN]

Buddy it’s not a pc that doesn’t make it a pc there are controllers for it and you don’t use a keyboard and mouse so that doesn’t make it a pc

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Also the graphics are worse on a steam deck

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@HenryLeeFN Just like the mini PC, I can connect a usb-c dock and get a hdmi output and support form wired and 2.4ghz keyboards and mice

both also have bluetooth

whats ur point