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The really need to make a Revision B with a bigger battery. It's absolutely abysmal xP

Other than that, it's an amazing machine. I'm so darn impressed I can't even express it in humanly understandable words; only happy moans and weird noises. Heh.

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The really need to make a Revision B with a bigger battery. It's absolutely abysmal xP

Other than that, it's an amazing machine. I'm so darn impressed I can't even express it in humanly understandable words; only happy moans and weird noises. Heh.

Regards.

i'm waiting for a 2nd gen unit and better battery life before I bite.

Hopefully something with a Zen4 apu and RDNA3
 

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The really need to make a Revision B with a bigger battery. It's absolutely abysmal xP

Other than that, it's an amazing machine. I'm so darn impressed I can't even express it in humanly understandable words; only happy moans and weird noises. Heh.

Regards.
Abysmal is a bit strong... It more than doubles the playtime vs my 2019 Razer blade advanced which has an 80WHr battery. Playing a game like Hollow Knight or Eastward the Deck easily does 4-5 hours which I'd say is plenty fair considering the size. The same applies in AAA games except its like 45-60min on the Razer vs 90-120min on the Steam Deck. That's double the playtime with half the battery size.
 
i'm waiting for a 2nd gen unit and better battery life before I bite.

Hopefully something with a Zen4 apu and RDNA3
The performance is surprisingly good for what it is. Plus it can use RSR and FSR with no problems. The interface needs a bit of polish, but that is Software side. Other than that, it's a really strong performer.

Abysmal is a bit strong... It more than doubles the playtime vs my 2019 Razer blade advanced which has an 80WHr battery. Playing a game like Hollow Knight or Eastward the Deck easily does 4-5 hours which I'd say is plenty fair considering the size. The same applies in AAA games except its like 45-60min on the Razer vs 90-120min on the Steam Deck. That's double the playtime with half the battery size.
It is abysmal, because it doesn't last a full round trip to anywhere without charging it. That's a problem. Remember this is not a laptop and it is meant to be used in a similar way to a Switch: on the go and untethered.

EDIT: Let me just clarify that while I do strongly believe the battery is a very weak point of the Deck, I do consider it an amazing device nonetheless. I just want it to last longer when I play games that push the iGPU and power limit.

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It is abysmal, because it doesn't last a full round trip to anywhere without charging it.
Are you referring to AAA gaming time? Because if the 4-5 hours that chorus talks about are true then there is plenty of of round trips you could do with that.

Also anything that takes a long time to travel has a way to provide you with power/charge your device, busses, planes, trains, everything short of public local transportation has charge ports.
 
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The really need to make a Revision B with a bigger battery. It's absolutely abysmal xP

Other than that, it's an amazing machine. I'm so darn impressed I can't even express it in humanly understandable words; only happy moans and weird noises. Heh.

Regards.
I’m not bothered about battery, I use it plugged in most of the time anyway, but I’d snap up a v2 with OLED. I’d also be super tempted by a Mini, with better ergonomics for small hands.

In fact, if they were going to put a bigger battery in I’d rather keep the battery life the same and increase the power draw to run a larger screen (same footprint but smaller bezels, which would probably mean increasing the pixel count, meaning higher power draw for both the screen and the GPU).
 
Are you referring to AAA gaming time? Because if the 4-5 hours that chorus talks about are true then there is plenty of of round trips you could do with that.

Also anything that takes a long time to travel has a way to provide you with power/charge your device, busses, planes, trains, everything short of public local transportation has charge ports.
Bayoneta makes it last 2 hours. Any game that is midly intensive in 3D is going to drain the battery real quick. I've tried limiting frames and all that, but the games start stuttering like crazy; it's not a good experience. The only fix is a bigger battery or an outlet. That being said, the cable is not long enough to charge and play comfortably, so it's kind of funny. You'd need to buy an extra long cable.

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Valve says production of the Steam Deck has more than doubled per week, which should hopefully drive down reservation times for future owners.

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Part of the appeal of the steamdeck was it allowed gaming in a time when GPU's were limited to the average gamer. Now there is a flood of GPUs coming in, along with a recession, I would think this would be a bad time to expand production. I have to admit $100 for 192GB storage upgrade is a bit insane. And 256GB really is really too small for any sizable library with a few games exceeding 100 Gigs these days.
 
Part of the appeal of the steamdeck was it allowed gaming in a time when GPU's were limited to the average gamer. Now there is a flood of GPUs coming in, along with a recession, I would think this would be a bad time to expand production. I have to admit $100 for 192GB storage upgrade is a bit insane. And 256GB really is really too small for any sizable library with a few games exceeding 100 Gigs these days.
Nobody got a deck to compensate for a GPU, they might have spent the money for a GPU they couldn't get on a deck but not to replace a new GPU.
Also they have a huge backlog of preorders and this increase in production might be for that alone and as soon as the pre orders are done they might go back to the lower production.

Also I doubt that the deck is the single PC for anybody, they can play the huge games at home on their main system and take smaller games for on the go, like games that are pick up and play and not play for a minute and then wait for the 10min cut scene to be over.
 
Nobody got a deck to compensate for a GPU, they might have spent the money for a GPU they couldn't get on a deck but not to replace a new GPU.
Also they have a huge backlog of preorders and this increase in production might be for that alone and as soon as the pre orders are done they might go back to the lower production.

Also I doubt that the deck is the single PC for anybody, they can play the huge games at home on their main system and take smaller games for on the go, like games that are pick up and play and not play for a minute and then wait for the 10min cut scene to be over.
A lot of people held off on upgrades just because GPU prices were so high. So yes, this created a more disposable income toward buying other game systems. How much so is the question.