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You know what? I’ve only had my Steam Deck for slightly under a year, but I’m honestly astounded at the amount of abuse it has endured without showing any appar
by IggleSniggle 4y ago
You know what? I’ve only had my Steam Deck for slightly under a year, but I’m honestly astounded at the amount of abuse it has endured without showing any apparent problems. I’m very curious to see how long it lasts.
I doubt it will be competitive with a Switch for durability, which is the closest mirror to a Deck that also has some similarities to Apple-style hardware-quality + lock-in.
But that said, I’ve had problems with Apple laptop keyboards after only a couple years of use, and had a laptop monitor from Apple start to yellow bizarrely after less than a year. Nintendo joycons started having issues after under a year.
Sometimes you’re just at the bad-end of the bell-curve. It’s a shame that online reviews aren’t that helpful anymore; it can be hard to know what’s real with consumer tech, and hard to know how big the lemon segment is.
- Vrondi 4y agoMaybe Steam will give us a line of gaming laptops with the same build quality...
- colejohnson66 4y agoWasn't the "Steam Machine" supposed to be an attempt at a gaming PC, but it failed?
- dpkirchner 4y agoIIRC the Steam Machine was a specification and not a product you could buy, so quality varied. I'd bet that contributed to its failure.