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Hands on with the Zotac Zone gaming handheld: It's got a gorgeous screen, but the competition is ramping up [AMD Ryzen 7 8840U, 780M GPU,16GB Ram, 7-inch AMOLED 1080p, ~800$] (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

handheld news on PC gaming community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Original name for these device was UMPC, now rebranded as "handheld" because flow better in tweet an youtube videos titles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They are personal computers

I would differentiate it from a console in that it runs applications on itself rather than on a mainframe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'd be tempted once bazzite supports any hardware quirks

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

But it runs windows, so it's useless and we don't care.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I just got a steam deck a few weeks ago and gotta say, it’s pretty great and it just boots into steam which is all I’d ever want a handheld to do. I got the highest tier steam deck for $650 and it’s had no issue running anything I’ve wanted to run on it. It runs new stuff perfectly well from all the reports I’ve seen of people playing baldurs gate 3 on it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I hate the Steam Deck! /s

I mean, I'm half joking but I used to sleep in bed and now I waste like 2-3 hours on Balatro instead of falling asleep at an appropriate hour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Geez this is gonna sound like astroturfing, but I gotta say I don't think I've ever been so happy with something I bought!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep, BG3 plays fairly well on it. I have the OLED one too. Also Helldivers 2 plays great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Haven’t tried helldivers yet, bought the steam deck to use on planes and trains while on holiday and so haven’t had internet access at all and certainly not reliable internet most of that time. Super Earth will just have to wait until this diver is back at the main machine

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder how good the software is. This seems to be the weak part in many handhelds and the thing Valve nailed with their Steamdeck. If it runs Windows 11, I'll pass.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

RIP, I hope big companies will turn their back on Microsoft when they see adding Windows detracts from their product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Everyone knew before the first one that it has higher overhead so all specs are less than advertised

They still do it