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I am feeling you. I spent for the high end partially for the screen and it was hard to play on the balcony but maybe thats because I did not have oled :)

I am feeling the same. Some really neat upgrades, but nothing major like an extra USB port that actually warrants an upgrade (for me and the way I use mine, anyways). We will see if I get one on sale.

That's an excellent point, I updated my summary to show that. Sorry for any confusion.

That's the whole point. They had to walk a thin line between making an attractive upgrade and pissing off the existing users. If they had made the deck more powerful, the old ones would suddenly have been obsolete. I think they did a good job of that. And no, I'm not buying the new one either.

It's officially not compatible. gamers nexus video

I am sure it can be done, as people also solder other memory onto steam decks

I wouldn’t count on it. They’re different sizes

What's funny for me is I have two gaming PCs and yet I play more games on the deck. It's just easier for me to pop into games for an hour or so and suspend it when I'm done. So far I've beaten the Trails In The Sky trilogy (with each game taking me about 3-4 months to beat) and it's been such a wonderful experience on the deck.

I really want a deck and would use it hours every day, but I can barely afford food.

Buy a used one, if you don't like it, sell it for most of what you paid

It's funny because I was at a point where I wasn't playing games at all really, not on my big PC, phone, or anywhere.

I had pre-ordered the steam deck for my wife, and she used it a bit but when TotK came out that took all her attention playing on switch.

I had poked around on the deck, played a few games, but didn't love using a controller instead of mouse and keyboard.

Then we had a gig where we had to sit in a car for 8 hours, and she convinced me to try playing horizon ZD. I had never played it, but I ended up really liking it. And the convenience of having it on the deck was great! I ended up playing it all the time, and beating it, and now I'm emulating BotW, playing it for the first time, and enjoying it.

Now I've gone full crazy, I'm emulating a couple dozen games, got a bunch of others installed and waiting. I upgraded my SSD to 2tb, replaced my fan, and am eyeballing that clear back with RGB.

My advice, if you can afford it, get it and just see what you think. You might like it!

Or, if you don't like it, you can resell it. The value of these things seems to stay reasonably high. Though I imagine we might see a drop in price with the flood of LCD models about to hit the market.

Just do it. You know you want to.

It's peak 1000 nits with HDR. The base full-panel max is 600 nits. Still, it's a big jump over the 400 on the previous LCD model.

And 5% lower weight!

167h of Stardew on the Deck here so far and probably wouldn't even play it if Deck didn't make playing games so comfy.

I've seen people get 8-10 hours out of the battery playing Stardew on the standard deck, so you could maybe squeeze up to 15 hours out of it on the new Deck. What more can you ask for?

It's so nice being able to have mods on the steam deck though. I had stardew valley on my switch, and while I enjoyed it, I missed so many of the quality of life mods. Now I can have my cake and eat it too lol

It's supposedly considered the same APU according to the different leaks we've seen. The 6nm is supposed to increase power efficiency but that's it.

I've read it's a different connector from mobo (?) To screen, so the OLED will not be backwards compatible.

I hope they continue making oem replacement parts for when I need to replace something on my original.

The tomtoc travel case is great and is already available.

Reading more details on the repairability, they've changed the screws to torx and they all thread into metal thread now. Should prevent screw stripping. They also say internal components are easier to access, but that might just be with the new heat shield design that was already present in recent Steam Decks.

The now lowest end model (256 GB) still is the old model, so it's a sibling.