Superior in image quality maybe.

Afaik samsung does this to help with oled degradation. So after a year or two the samsung should look better.

You can literally be objectively right about something (not even an opinion) and get downvoted because people dont like to see that.

Like when the exynos S22 Ultra released I got one on launch. Tested it against my old Oneplus 8 Pro and it had worse performance, worse battery life and worse reception (I posted screenshots proving it). Nah must be my fault for using the device wrong.

Or I bought an ally on launch day and the stick grind has gotten so bad now, the sticks literally feel worse than the ones of a 20yo gamecube and ps1. Also my fault for using the device wrong.

Imo. it isnt that hard for me to open the deck and replace the ssd. However I know people sometimes just dont want to do that and thats fine. Personally I also bought the 1tb deck over the 512gb and one of the reasons beeing not having to replace the ssd.

In your situation you might also look at local offers or ask a repairshop if they could put in an ssd instead of selling it. Here in my area I saw people do it for like 30$ (+ssd cost)

Shhh people dont like hearing that. They like to believe they can keep things 100% as new with 0 protection as long as they are careful.

Short: TDP didnt work as you would expect before the update and would actually draw more power. Now its using less. If you set it a higher tdp to get same performance, total power consumption should be the same.

Long: watch the phawx video

Magglass matte is etched from what ive seen, correct me if I am wrong, here is the link:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magglass-Tempered-Designed-Protector-Anti-Glare/dp/B09X82S4XL/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=2VA468AB76K44&keywords=magglass+steam+deck&qid=1700872273&sprefix=magglass+steam+deck%2Caps%2C211&sr=8-2

Had a couple matte protectors on other devices and they really made the display quite grainy. Afaik screen protectors mostly use a coating that grains the picture. Etched glass screen protectors are really expensive and hard to find (here in germany I only found one thats a UK import for 30€/piece, while others are like 2-5€/piece)

My etched oled has yet to arrive, but from what ive seen and read so far, etched glass doesnt have that grain effect.

Three advantages:

1. The screen cant burn in, yes its unlikely the oled will noticably burn in with regular use in its lifetime, but its still nice to know you can blast full brightness 24/7 without worrying in the slightest

2. If the screen breaks for any reason, from dropping or whatever, a lcd replacement will be way cheaper.

3. Modding is easier for the moment because its more widespread. While the outside is the same internals are way different, so some mods of the lcd deck dont work on oled without altering them.

The efficiency doesnt come from the os but from the soc. A steam deck running windows performs the same as a steamos one. And an ally running chimeraos (like steamos) will perform the same as a windows one. Source: I tried it. The only thing thats really hindering low watt performance is the gpu of the ally not downclocking below 800mhz. There is no way the ally should use almost 3w for the gpu in games were the deck uses like 0.5w for the gpu and 3-4w total. But it seems nobody cares enough to fix it.

Other than that I wouldnt recommend the ally. Stick grind is real and after a couple hours the sticks will feel worse than the ones of cheap 1$ ps2 knockoff controllers. Also getting annoyed by constant updates, feels like every week either armoury crate, bios, myasus or windows wants to do some update that takes like 20 min. Which is horrible when you want to use it once a week for an hour or two. And yes you can ignore some. But for example latest armoury crate update simply wouldnt display any of my games until i installed it. Yes I could have started them directly through steam, but that kind of just postpones the issue.

Really the only good reason for the ally is plugged in 30w performance and vrr on the display.

He hasnt really stress tested it. Just set it once. Difference between beeing stable for a couple benchmarks and beeing stable over its lifetime. There is a reason overclocks on pc arent considered stable until they pass 24h+ stress test on each individual overclocked component. (Same applies to undervolting)

Had (still have it) an ally and bought a steam deck oled because I mainly play indies anyway. Demanding games on the go with 1 hour battery life just isnt that great. The biggest plus the ally still has is a vrr screen and probably still slightly quieter fan. But with the maasively improved battery life and oled screen i think the deck is just better for most.

I have the ally and I am gonna get the steam deck oled.

After having tried the regular deck of a friend I much prefer it in most ways, battery life, software, ergonomics, controls.

Only thing that kept me on the ally were better screen, less fan noise and better speakers - all which the oled sd heavily improved on.

Thats plain wrong, why do you think vrr is a thing. If you have 30 fps while running a 30hz screen and then dip to 29 fps, you will miss a frame and wait for next refresh, so instead of 33.4ms between each frame, you get one frame that will be delayed by 66.8ms.

If youre running 90hz and have 30 fps dip to 29, that one frame will only be delayed by 44.5ms instead. Since a refresh happens every 11.1ms instead of 33.4.

If you have 100% locked 30fps in games it doesnt matter, but almost no game will always run 100% locked with 0 fluctuation.