Windows 11? Bye.
yeah. if its not linux its not a rival.
Yep.
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Even with the title I still don’t know who they are 😆
They’re known for making PC cases, so I assume this one is going to have a fancy case and the internals will be unsupported after like three years.
At least, they were right, that we would never have guessed the name of a company we didn’t know about. 🙃
It’s not a rival if it’s Windows.
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The Steamdeck’s USP is that it’s a handheld PC which is priced like a console.
Don’t get me wrong, these handhelds are cool, but they’re not competitors to the steamdeck unless they’re hitting the same price points.
Unless Antec has started a coding division, I can’t see it ever having the integration the SteamDeck does.
Props to you, OP, for not doing the clickbait thing and putting the answer in the headline of the post.
So people not understand the main benefits of the Steamdeck are: It’s cheap It doesn’t use windows.
Like honestly, GPD has been making solid windows handhelds for years, but they’ve never been a popular as now because of these two things.
Don’t forget support. For what the Steam Deck is, I’ll take runs well over runs fast any day. It’s not like these competitors are letting you crank the settings to Ultra at 120 FPS.
Yup, I didn’t buy the Steam Deck to do 4K ray tracing at 120FPS. I bought it so I can pick up any Steam Deck Verified game and play it without relative issue. Being able to suspend the game immediately and just knowing things work beats fiddling with Windows on a handheld.
Yee olde click-bait cockblocked by way of parenthesis. Nice.
I have no use for a slide out keyboard, but I love that these PC handhelds are trying out weird shit to see what sticks.
I wish slide out keyboards would make a comeback on high end phones. I might actually play mobile games (but not gachas). Touch controls feel like garbage to me, not to mention blocking the screen with your thumbs.
I really miss the keyboard on my old Motorola Droid 2. Still wasn’t any good for gaming honestly, but it’s way better for typing than a touchscreen.
Yeah this is the reason I mainly play stylus only DS games on my phone, since the controls translate very well making it feel like official mobile ports.
Ya that’s generally what I’ve done as well. Inbento is one of the few times I’ve enjoyed playing a mobile game.
Get one of those gamepad cradles with USB-C (but don’t cheap out on it).
Problem with those is portability and convenience. Work breaks, waiting rooms, etc., I’m not going to have a controller with me so a slideout keyboard works better. Any situation I’d play mobile games with a controller would probably be a situation I could just bring a Switch or Steam Deck.
We’re in the ‘weird’ phase of a new form factor.
There are a few designs that have been interesting. I like weird, but as a steamdeck daily driver, its a pretty good starting point. Hard to improve upon.
It’s run windong that’s mean probably no good driver support for Linux
Alessandro we need more posters like you!
It looks like a cross between a sidekick and that weird keyboard attachment that went on 360 controllers. Who is this for?
I didn’t even realize Antec still existed. I knew them for their cases (I had the Twelve Hundred), but I haven’t seen any build pics with their cases on Reddit/Lemmy for years. There was a year where it seemed like everyone was building in the Bitfenix Prodigy, then another where everyone was in the NZXT Phantom, then after that it’s been mostly Corsair, Cooler Master, and Fractal. My last 4 have been Fractal.
