/r/PatientGamers

If I was in that situation I would buy the base model steam Deck and the largest SD card I could afford. After the SD card fills up I would do an upgrade like this.

I think upgrading the SSD and installing a new OS is pretty easy but I do remember as a beginner opening any clamshell being nerve-wracking. Approach it like you're developing a new skill and you'll do fine.

I literally just put a 1tb in mine...

Yes, all steamdecks take 2230 SSDs

I thought they did this recall a long time ago. They've waited long enough now that most of them are probably in the trash.

I think it's the single-sided form factor and that it's a source that can't just disappear into the ebay/amazon/aliexpress thicket if they ship a dud. 2TB 2230 (specifically the 30 part) isn't that common yet.

... What? I don't even follow your argument. All laptops with dGPUs and AMD CPUs are imitation Steam Decks?

Maybe Valve acquires Framework - making them the hardware division of a larger company - creating repairable portables, laptops and some kind of modular PC thing.

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So for people who own a switch, and have been waiting to buy a steam deck because they are new PC gaming, and know nothing on how to set up the steam deck, is this the time to buy?

I wish they sell them in Mexico but seems valve has refused to sell to Latin America considered we haven’t even gotten the index

I might actually get this

After 3 Fitbit's dying for no reason whatsoever, I decided to never buy Fitbit junk again.

They are just selling a 2230 western digital drive. Why is this interesting?

most lapdocks have a battery built in. they won't charge the steam deck very well tho

the nexpad tho (the screen at the top in the pic) doesn't have a battery at all, so does full pass thru power to the steam deck....

so deck charger into nexpad, usb-c to usb-c from nexpad to steam deck, and you're off to the races

what I've got pictured tho is nexpad + nexpad360 wireless

so I'm using a GaN charger (100w) with USB power to the nexpad (and onto the steam deck) and then another USB lead to the nexdock360w

then steam deck then connects to the nexdock360w wirelessly, with miracast for video, and bluetooth for the keyboard/trackpad/touchscreen

it's a really decent experience, tbh

Once upon a time when an enclosure, m.2 to pcie adapter, used midrange GPU and semi-dodgy activation tool to play most games at high detail on the common resolution cost ~$200 together, it was a great option and the reduction in performance from the narrow bandwith & extra latency was surprisingly low.

A lot of the time you'd still be held back by affordable laptop CPUs being dual cores and the process being fiddly as hell provided you had the magic combination of good wiring, enough addressable memory to recognize the card, a card with a driver that would not forbit you this (I'm looking at you, NVIDIA) and no bios whitelisting on that m.2 port.

PCIe over thunderbolt made the process a lot easier, reliable and less likely to fry your laptops motherboard or set your dest on fire,, but $200+ just for the enclosure was just too much, esp since the fancy & slim laptops that'd you'd do this with still had very core and thermally limited CPUs most of the time.

Now it makes even less sense when a dedicated card makes up at least half of any decent builds cost & drivers are even more locked down, just people keep the buying the very lucrative, yet underperforming and misbadged mobile GPUs.

Interesting. Separate power I'd assume. Do me a favor? Stop tempting me to spend more money, would ya? ha ha

yes, exactly like the motorola Atrix/Bionic lapdocks

single USB-C cable between lapdock and phone/steam deck/laptop/ps5/switch/etc

Nexdock makes a few different versions, as does UPERFECT.

they're a perfect complement to the steam deck

https://imgur.com/a/6s5k1de

just as an example

My biggest gripe with modern day portable devices is that battery life is disasterous. Like an hour or two of portable gaming at mediocre graphics is not good enough. The CPUGPU are good enough, just the battery stuff needs to get better.

Interesting, so it's like the old Motorola Atrix thing (if I'm recalling correctly) where it's a empty/dummy laptop until you attach it to a phone?

can i put this in my 64gb emmc deck?

I have a lapdock with a bluetooth wireless touchscreen. it works pretty well

nexdock.com if you're curious

They're already as low as they can go... Unless you wait like 10 years. lol

Depends, if the lvds cable lines up then that part is easy, and if there’s a built in webcam then there’s already some sort of usb connection.

Just use sd cards