Asus ROG Ally or Steam Deck
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I want a budget computer (UK) that can handle being portable, playing Terraria, Minecraft, The First Descendant, Muck and more games.
It also has to handle 2D / 3D Unity or Godot game dev.
The Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme is £499.99
The Steam Deck OLED is £479.99I have a monitor if I want a PC experience. I want just a portable handheld computer for older and one or two more modern games and game dev.
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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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If you want it I can send you the Amazon link
@HenryLeeFN alright, i want top check the power of it first
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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
@HenryLeeFN what?! how are steam decks terrible?! they are great!
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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 ass 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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I just don’t recommend the steam deck because you could get a good pc with $500
@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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It is not a pc
@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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It is a literal hand held device
@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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It is not a pc
@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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It is a literal hand held device
@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)
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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
