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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by avery17 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @08:46PM (#38996473)
They all have very bad power consumption lol
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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by ekianjo on Sunday January 14, 2024 @09:17PM (#38996697)
Apart from the Steam Deck, that is.
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Re:A Suprising Discovery Inside the Steam Deck's APU by jwells89 on Monday January 15, 2024 @12:05AM (#38997626)
The OLED Deck in particular is great. On less demanding games or streaming with Moonlight where I can crank down the TDP it’s not hard to squeeze 10+ hours of playtime out of its 50Wh battery.

Linux probably helps here, with its greatly reduced background activity compared to Windows.

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