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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by LegitShady on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:57AM (#36586753)
Do you want to game away from your computer? That's the use case. Think of it like a big Sega game gear that runs steam and plays most steam games. You could do other things with it but it's literally purpose built to run steam, it's form factor is set up for gaming, and it's big and chunky not throw it in a bag and forget it sized.

It doesn't replace a gaming desktop or even an ipad. It's a mobile gaming console that plays steam games for the most part.

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Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verif... by ThatPlayer on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:42PM (#36592286)
Similarly, I ended up using mine docked a lot of the time. Performance when docked, and outputting more than 720p is pretty lacking. I really liked having a second input on my monitor to switch to for my games, so I ended up getting a 2nd PC with ChimeraOS (basically SteamOS) installed on it. I played through the entirety of Diablo 4 with that.

I like the hardware, but yeah I've had a harder time recommending it to some of my friends because my first question is "do you go anywhere?". Plenty of them say no.

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