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The only showstoppers are the screen is too small to code on and battery life is too short.
by bullen 3y ago
The only showstoppers are the screen is too small to code on and battery life is too short.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoYeah, dock solves both. But I expect you're wanting a mobile device.
- madeofpalk 3y ago> screen is too small to code on That's like saying VS Code not running on the Nintendo Switch is a showstopper. Technically true for a usecase no one agrees is appropriate for it. Get the dock for the Steam Deck and you can plug a real keyboard, mouse, and monitor into it :)
- LegitShady 3y agobuy a laptop?
- bullen 3y agoFor somebody who is used to old IBM ThinkPads (600X and X61s, I stopped moving around after that) this is not an option. The only possible device I would consider using is a JH7110 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and mouse. But it has to be low res screen and the GPU driver has to be perfect.
- LegitShady 3y agoDo you think a tablet and bt kb/mouse is more similar to a thinkpad than a modern day thinkpad? I don't understand what point you seem to be making here. You can absolutely get another laptop. There's nothing keeping you stuck except you.
- bullen 3y agoModern laptops are complete garbage. I had a 200X at my last job it was slow (DDR4 is so much slower than DDR3 when in a low power laptop) and the screens are to high res, can't read anything without zooming and then it looks bad. That combined with weight and bulk. The drivers being crap too. And a bunch of things I forgot... like price etc. makes it unviable. We need cheap, open hardware and software. No big companies involved.
- rchaud 3y agoGet a 14inch lapdock and connect it to the Steam Deck via USB-C. That's your monitor and peripherals issues sorted. Lapdocks have built in batteries so they don't drain the device.