Stick placement is my biggest gripe with the slew of handhelds outside Steamdeck.

It’s like none of them looked at all the research Nintendo did for the WiiU Gamepad. Valve didn’t initially either, the first prototypes had the bad stick placement, but that’s what prototyping is for - learning the hard lessons - like centre of gravity.

comment section on videocardz I suggest you go there

I’d rather not.

No one would. There isn’t anything to be gleaned there but the crappiest of insults and faboyism.

AM4 is actually FM3.

Marketing changed the same to associate it with the bigger construction cores rather than APUs.

AMD docs called it as such until the marketing change.

You’re forgetting the biggest difference

Global warranty.

If you’re not seeing any changes in framerate adjusting options in Starfield, you’re CPU bottlenecked.

Australians: 💀

Too bad they’re so expensive in Australia, A$159 here.

It’s only A$189 for a 5600G, I’d be all over one of these for AUD$79 (or less!).

The real limited edition is the Australian edition.

It’s OK when AMD does it

WRX90 is the successor to WRX80…

TRX40 only had 4 channels, TRX50 only has 4 channels. Nothing changed.

That’s 192GB today (512GB in the future, 128GB modules are part of the DDR5 spec), not exactly a small amount.

Lets hope that for such a cost they last longer than one generation this time.

A lot of people have tried to make this excuse, it just doesn’t hold water.

The only standard that would even matter would be for the charger which has minimum standards (after lots of dodgy chargers causing fires) but that’s not a problem - Valve’s existing charger is already compliant since it’s approved in the EU (that’s an automatic pass)

Shipping isn’t a concern, you don’t need to run a warehouse here - just ship them from mainland China. You get all the postal union cheap postage (China is allegedly still a ‘developing nation’ so they have subsidised international postage)

Really only supply issues (not a problem anymore) and Gaben being salty factor in.

Steamdeck is made in China/Taiwan, it’s cheaper and faster to send things here than Europe or even USA (not by a lot for USA)

We asked for an OLED deck

Yes!

and we got one

sad Australian noises

Deck 2 in the works

Finally, once they release that they might finally release deck1 in Australia!

ASRock has been doing AMD cards for a while now and have been good.

They only do AMD and Intel, no nVidia.

Why would they invest any more money?

Because it always returns far more money than the capital they put in…