many are hdmi only, but there are several that have display port as well. I see a lot since I work in lease return/e-waste recycling.

of course, I’m not suggesting anyone should use them. im just saying they exist. the companies that make the good screens are all part of the HDMI forum, which defeats the reason why display port wont be offered at these screen sizes effectively.

basically no comoany is going to deny using HDMI unlrss a new upcoming screen company either develops propietary displayport tech, or the VESA foundation spins up monitor production.

unironically the only company i can remotely see doing said action is apple.

well its not the only option, its the only consumer ended option.

the corporate option is large format display/digital signage screens

i don’t think the demand for old ram is viable)for scalpers), the number of systems that actually want it is far fewer nowadays. DDR4 pricing was more caused by production stopping on DDR4, rather than the current ram shortages.

like I said, the deck was not their own design. it was a leftover design that they ended up picking up. If it was their design, then the Ryzen Z2A would not exist. and valve has already said they aren’t using the Aerith Plus cpu. If it’s their design, why would there be a plus model, and why would they not be using it.

And I don’t think we would disagree that the Deck has been a wild success.

yes, its a sucess, reletive to other PC handhelds, but Even valve could not sell 10M of them. the fact that AMD offered Microsoft a 10M min production run, and they declined it, its not going to be any better for valve. Valve just uses whats cheap for them.

For example with the steam machine, theres ABSOLUTELY no reason why they needed to use a seperate gpu, and seperate cpu, and not used shared memory, instead, forking out 24gb total memory (16/8 split) between hardware. It’s only like that because they had little choice.

if valve had an option, they would have liked to get the ryzen ai max 385, but it was never gonna happen due to pricing, so they had to opt to go seperate cpu/gpu theyre getting cheap.

the problem is, the tame version (Ai Max 388, 8c/40cu, or the 385 (8c/32cu) is still not optimal for handhelds, because of the fact that a large chunk of its power budget goes to the cpu, when the gpu needs it more.

pc handhelds are in a not so great position because the Z1 and Z2 generation of designs are functionally binned down laptop gpus, designed top down, rather than bottom up. Because AMD is on 8 core CCDs, it hamstrings the pc handhelds in the 10-15w use.

Since the Aerith CPU, the only other handheld thats AMD based thats actually reasonable is the Z2 Go, which is only featured in the Lenovo Legion Go 2 S, because both use 4c/8t cpus, due to intentionally picking an older cpu architecture, while having a beefier igpu. Its why gen over gen, pc handhelds are pretty stagnant as it cost nearly twice as much, while only offering 20% more performance, under the condition that you would have to increase the power target.

the problem the arm based options has is that the current companies in the spaces gpu drivers are not great(when Nvidia digits is having driver problems, you know damn well quacomm isn’t going to fare much better), and likely doubley so for modern games, especially ones that use modern features. Valve is too small for a company to get a good deal with AMD when it comes to a smaller semi custom cpu of their own, hence why Valve has essentially been using scrapped project parts from AMD since the steam deck. They were getting it at a lower cost because someone else likely commissioned the designed and canceled out of it. (supposedly it was Microsoft and the Aerith APU was originally meant to go into a surface product). The steam machine uses a borked laptop cpu, and a cut down low end desktop gpu, likely that was meant to also go into gaming laptops but ended up not getting sold because AMD has weak laptop gpu presence.

The best case scenario for a handheld would be a cpu who has 2 modern cores, and 2-4 efficiency/low power cores. Until AMD delivers on a CCD that fits the said target, handhelds will be stunted.

the ai companies are but that doesnt talk about the hardware specific companies. for example dell, hp and lenovo run a large business laptop leasing business if they do not get their ram, it will sour their relationships with memory manufacturers . they arent all going to be willing to take losses

problem is it wouldnt be priced well if it did unless AMD already has plans for it.

its already gone public that the reason Microsoft held off on their handheld was they couldnt commit to 10M sales of of custom arm based SOC. Valve clearly would not either given steam deck sales, and the choice of hardware for the steam machine is telling.

theyd have to all collorbate to make that happen though, which is really unfeasable on their end. a BUNCH of companies will go under if they cannot sell product. they arent going to willingly take losses for the sake of a different company.

the browser has historically been one of the most suceptsble vectors of hacking.

theres a reason why most older consoles often have an exploit related to getting access to protected regions of memory via corruption using the browser, and why modern Nintendo and PlayStation consoles do not have a built in browser for consumer use.

the browser is the biggest offender for viruses.

it can eventually turn into one if the project gets a lot of support. the problem is the current intention is to help occulus rift devs port their games to steam, and VR is a reletively niche audience, so its not going to get the development time it needs if it wants to explode.

tangently related, I do see a future where valve goes the route of game native and opens up steam officially on android, but its not quite there at the moment.

pretty much how I saw it. 10 was a push towards accepting all hardware configurations. 11 put restrictions in the name of security. so even if a user WANTED to upgrade, there’s technically a barrier that Microsoft would block them (albeit that check can be bypassed).

thats often the life of a startup. most startups end up failing (~80%). the other 20% hope their hustle gets them big enough to be bought out so they can then relax more.

the people who work startups dont want to be working that job indefinitely. especially since it often entails being overworked.

rust is a game commonly overrun with hackers who hack to grief other players, as its inherently a pvp survival game that takes a while to build up

slowing down AOSP releases (why Graphene is looking into other phone options). Google is also trying to enforce developer signatures on apps, which would give google the power to kill small developers on 3rd party app stores and ruin sideloading, as you would have to go through google to be verified to make apks.

these are a few example that has popped up in the past year.

its in the review, in the super tux kart benchmark section. under vulkan, their FPS is functionally the same. Under OpenGL, Cachy is somehow significantly faster

I think this cant be some odd anomaly, because that gap is huge

well that and cachys opengl performance is like 1.5x the other distros in super tux kart, so if you had some legacy games, its run better in cachy probably but raw modern hardware would have likely made it trivial. the one exception i could imagine where opengl performance probably matters is heavily modded java minecraft

my opinion isn’t based strictly on the header. because to argue that the default is silent mode, when its very reasonable to assume that the middle tier performance mode is the default usecase, because it has a 80W/h battery when compared to typical other handhelds. Steam deck for example uses a 40W/h battery. 17W, which is seeing the chunk of the performance gain, is a very reasonable target for a 80W/h battery. Because it would roughly be equivalent to a steam deck at 10W on its 40W/h battery.

but a game may not necessarily need 13W, thats the point. youre using up more power than what is necessary because the CPU governor doesn’t know if its necessary or not to actually use all 13W.

The steam deck is controlled the same way(has wattage targets), but it understands when its being underused, to use even less resources to maximize battery life.

If you have a car that has gears, where gear 1 is 25, gear 2 is 50 (old cars), it doesn’t mean there aren’t usecases where you want to go 5/10. its unnecessary to always have to hit said target.

the main thing you get back is a better cpu governor to manage power consumption on 2d games. Reviews like the Phawks points out that microsoft kinda handed it off to the handheld makers to optimize for battery life. So in the instances such as getting 8hours of battery life running dead cells because the system doesnt really need to push that much to run the game, the Windows handheld is stuck on a higher performance clock and has a significantly shorter battery life time.

This would be extremely visible if more lighter games are tested, which typically aren’t for reviews like this because its not really fun to show a bunch of games all hitting 60 if you cap framerate.