MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck

Personally, I feel like nothing will compete with the SteamOS experience. Windows handhelds come with all the annoyances that Windows brings in general. If there's ChimeraOS or Nobara Linux support for other handhelds, they may be more worth it, but that stock experience with Windows 11 is painful.

I like innovation format and hardware, however at some point vendors will have to accept that shackling to Windows license IS holding them back. SteamOS is just way more superior environment.
Yes, Microsoft might throw billions after Valve new project, but I doubt they gonna redirect serious software resources to it, considering shareholders scream for moar OpenAI.

Only thing I am mostly interested is secondary market with SteamOS polished and installed on these devices. Then it might be worth to check it out.

Quoting: PeciskI like innovation format and hardware, however at some point vendors will have to accept that shackling to Windows license IS holding them back. SteamOS is just way more superior environment.
Yes, Microsoft might throw billions after Valve new project, but I doubt they gonna redirect serious software resources to it, considering shareholders scream for moar OpenAI.

Anyone else ever think that shareholders seem on average kind of dumb?

Quoting: enigmaxg2Yet another Wincrap-based handheld, and guess what? It will be available in more markets than the Deck.

Valve needs to release SteamOS 3 and make the Deck available (oficially) in more countries.

Usually it is not how it works. Vendors usually will claim wider availability to lock in people's attention (Ally is still nowhere to seen in the wild, despite the claims last spring). However no one's gonna bother because of options already available out there. Valve seems to prefer vendors who care to sell their hardware instead of just dumping it - most likely lessons learned from previous iterations of their kit.
Despite all hype, scaling up production of kits is very hard and sometimes economics is just not there. Yes, Windows handhelds seem to try to corner more expensive niche, but Steam Deck just keeps being "common man" PC handheld. Number of friends who gotten SD because it's price around me is just ridiculous. Also everyone has Steam account so setting it all up and using it is just as easy as Switch.
Funny thing is vendors could just adapt SteamOS and get on with it. They don't have to pay anything to Valve. But those Microsoft deals are way too sweet and they long given up to sell actual hardware to people - they are selling Windows users to Microsoft and eye balls to software. In their defense selling PC devices and having a profit these days is really not possible - due of competition margins are very thin.

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PeciskI like innovation format and hardware, however at some point vendors will have to accept that shackling to Windows license IS holding them back. SteamOS is just way more superior environment.
Yes, Microsoft might throw billions after Valve new project, but I doubt they gonna redirect serious software resources to it, considering shareholders scream for moar OpenAI.

Anyone else ever think that shareholders seem on average kind of dumb?

They are just playing by the rules laid out by system. System is very primitive, dumb, shortsighted and will destroy us if we won't do something about it soon.

Fact is - and it can't be understated - Steam Deck is possible because Valve is privately held. That's long and short of it.

Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: gradyvuckovicFirst hint they provide is a dark image showing the RGB colourful lighting rings around what is no doubt the joysticks and already immediately I have absolutely zero interest in the device.

I'm sooooo completely over the overkill of RGB lighting in everything 'GAMERRRR!' related in the world of tech right now. Next PC I buy is going to be a black metal box and I'm going to shop around to find all the components I can get with the fewest number of lights possible, and any lights remaining after that, I'm going to black em out with permanent marker.

haha! I'm in the exact same boat my friend. Last pc I built in 2020 was with a bequiet matte black case. It's just a black metal rectangle with some vents in it, and that's it. I love this case. It was kind of sad though, a LOT of the other components I had to manually go turn off the garbage RGB I didn't even know they had. Both the ram I bought and the mobo had defaulted on blinky nonsense that was so irritating. I had to go into the bios and disable it.

But if they ditched all the RGB they couldn't add all that extra cost to it! Can you imagine components lacking all the RGB nonsense and the overall price you'd actually save if they provided alternatives to that? It's legit difficult to find motherboards these days without all the stuff that we clearly don't give a crap about...