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You bought a first gen product by a company that has never had an actual hardware design division, and you're complaining that it isn't perfect? Also, how is t
by DiabloD3 1y ago
You bought a first gen product by a company that has never had an actual hardware design division, and you're complaining that it isn't perfect?
Also, how is the SD Card limitation on the Deck consumer hostile? The Steam Deck is an AMD platform PC. PCs typically do not even have SD card slots, and when they do, they are generic controllers plugged into the USB port.
To do SD Express, it requires a more expensive controller that can do PCI-E lane passthrough, and then you have to route those lanes somewhere and do it correctly. I am not aware of any laptop that opted to include an SD Express controller, and all of the Steam Deck competitors do not either.
The Steam Deck is advertised to implement a standard UHS-I card reader, and uses a better one that actually does do the full 104MB/s instead of the more frequently supported 52MB/s. UHS-I is common for 4k60fps cameras, such as Canon or Nikon bodies, or the GoPro, extremely few devices support UHS-II.
Like, I understand what you're trying to say, but nothing of that generation implements it, and the AMD SoC Valve uses afaik does not have the spare external PCI-E lanes to actually implement it anyways.
- parineum 1y ago> You bought a first gen product by a company that has never had an actual hardware design division They've released hardware before.
- DiabloD3 1y agoYes, but nothing like this. I had a Steam Link, for example, its really a verbatim copy of the dev kit of the ARM SoC they used. Fun fact, same SoC as the Chromecast 1, and the SoC is cursed. The controller was kinda cool, I didn't get one with mine, but making a controller is an entirely different set of skills than making a computer.
- zoeysmithe 1y agoVale has release several hardware products, many successful as well as being the brains behind the Vive. Its not like Apple or other popular companies are any better in this regard.
- DiabloD3 1y agoThe Vive hardware platform was built and designed by HTC for Valve, and the software platform was all Valve. It's more like Google's relationship with partners under the Nexus program, but unlike Google's Pixel line. And yes, Apple design is kind of shit, but in a consumer hostile sort of way, not in an incompetence kind of way.