This is not an ideal scenario however. Your power bank will attempt to recharge the Steam Deck as fast as possible and lithium ion batteries lose efficiency as draw increases. The most efficient route would to instead run the deck, charged at 100%, off your battery bank until that bank is depleted, then allow the deck to run off internal batteries.

That said, as the Deck charges in the 20-25w range, this efficiency gain would be eliminated if your game demanded 20-25w system power.

Kodi and a MicroSD card full of local media files. Boom, Steam Deck becomes an offline entertainment kit that’s a one stop solution while traveling… Bored of games? Watch some movies or a show. Go back to games when your mood changes. Bring your dock and plug it into your hotel TV for either.

Just thought that maybe reviewers should mention that, but for some reason they hadn’t, and I’ve seen a lot of reviews.

That’s because they all referred to the ‘smaller bezel’ which is what that’s called. That’s… That’s just not ‘letter boxing’, you’re just calling it the wrong thing.

I use Xbox Series controllers over Bluetooth.

The Steam Deck is ‘just a PC’ and just like any PC, you can pair a wide range of controllers to the device. Heck, I use an infrared remote on my Deck when docked to control Kodi for media. :P

Some games will use as much performance as allowed, they will run as fast as possible, meaning they will max out the CPU. The Steam Deck can’t tell if the game ‘needs’ that performance or not, it just fulfils requests for performance from the game. So the TDP cap lets you limit it.

A 1TB upgrade is going to cost me $150 CAD from amazon after tax

1TB MP600 is $109.99 on Amazon right now. That’s $126.49 with 15% sales tax if you live in the Maritimes, and obviously less if you live in other parts of Canada.

RCT and RCT2 have received nor real updates in about 20 years, not even wide screen support.

Best bet is to buy RCT2 on Steam them use Luxtorpeda to swap in ‘OpenRCT2’ on the Deck.

Holy hell, buy a webcam and a microphone and at least do the basic work yourself.

Breaking News: New Thing Depreciates Cash Value Of Old Thing

Ahh yes and steam stands behind the couriers paying them extra and giving them plenty of time to deliver?!

Believe it or not, most of the carriers Valve uses (I have no idea why you think the company is named ‘Steam’.) are unionized. :P

OPs post: and maybe Amazon spoiled me a bit

OPs replies: Actually, Amazon has not spoiled me a bit and I will fight to the death over any suggestion that I’ve be spoiled by Bezo’s Army Of Minimum Wage Delivery Slaves Who Are All On Suicide Watch.

Console Gamers in The PC Space: Hey, I blindly followed a guide, having no comprehension of what it was telling me, and renamed .local to local, now my Deck is dead, please help. :(

in the bios it shows up as 512gb

Yeah, that means it’s def a 512GB SSD. You got shipped the wrong thing or something.

What model does the sticker on the drive actually say?

You really need to get My Burning Heart. Pretty good. Won a free key at a panel at an anime con once.

All Steam Deck’s can output HDR to a monitor. Only limitation is the dock.

Maybe, but I also wouldn’t bet on it.

So they can sell off all the already manufactured components for the LCD model.

The entire purpose of the Steam Deck is to be a vehicle to sell Steam games because Valve gets 30% of every game sold on Steam.

Get it? Valve is not trying to sell Steam Decks for the sake of selling Steam Decks. They are trying to sell Steam Decks for the sake of you buying Steam Games with those Steam Decks.

If Valve abandons development of Steam OS For the Steam Deck LCD models, that’s millions of units that will become increasingly useless to drive users to buy Steam games with them.

Valve does not ‘win’ if you trash your old Steam Deck and buy a new one. They are not even really making profit off Steam Deck sales. They profit by getting you to buy Steam Games. They have a profit motive to ensure your Steam Deck is a viable Steam Game Buying Machine for as long as reasonably possible.

that it does not completely render your LCD deck useless

Oh shit, useless? I gotta check on this myself.

Checks

Nope, my Q2 2TB Steam Deck LCD still plays games and is actually quite useful. Maybe yours is just broken?

Someone needs to ask the cops to perform a wellness check on the DeckHD guys.