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[News] Steam Deck OLED review: Includes specs on new screen and other improvements
(www.polygon.com)
Just give me usb4
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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Multiple usb4
I wish. Theres gotta be spare pcie lanes on that chip to make it work somehow.
That would have to wait for a SD2 as it would need a completely new APU. I think this is the best refresh we could hope for without major changes that would warrant a new version. One thing I wish they'd been able to do is get VRR on the screen. The fact they didn't means there must be some technical limitation.
Ahah! I knew the sales were pointing to some sort of new version incoming.
While it seems that the new startup movie is exclusive to the 1TB OLED model, is that model's exclusive keyboard theme the same as the prior 512GB Steam Deck (DEX-85) or a new one?
Sustained brightness is 600 nits, 1000 nits is peak brightness for HDR content. Still an improvement of course.
I'm wondering whether the charging circuitry is largely the same except for the quicker charging to 80 %. I'd love to be able to use some higher-powered USB-C hubs with PD passthrough, where currently a hub using 15 watts leaves 30 watts for the deck, and using a higher wattage charger won't change that because the Deck only requests 45 watts (15 V @ 3 A). Would be great if the new Deck could do, say, 60 watts (20 V @ 3 A), because leaving just 30 watts to the Deck is right on the edge under full load with an external display, meaning it has to fallback to battery momentarily, which isn't great.
Another nice thing to have would be a low-power standby/download mode, for which they'd probably have to tweak the hardware a bit. I don't use my Deck too often (great device, but it only fills specific gaps in my gaming needs), and every time I pick it up it starts downloading quite a few game updates.
The OLED model is tempting, but I don't use the Deck enough to justify upgrading I think.
A bit sad for these guys who made a display upgrade for the original Deck released a few weeks ago (the 1920x1200 one), as most people who really care about display quality will probably just upgrade to the OLED model instead. The higher resolution seems rather pointless (the Deck doesn't have enough oompfh to run modern games in this resolution), especially compared to a bigger, brighter, higher refresh rate OLED screen.
I cannot use the oled screen, it hurt my eyes. Unfortunately the original steam deck screen also flickers.
Interesting. I think OLED is meant to be more comfortable to the eyes actually.
It is an improvement over the original steam deck screen. But I wish Valve could use some non-PWM screens to protect my eyes better
Timeline?