It’s crazy to me the way that all of the also-ran handhelds seem bent on putting a desktop OS on these things. The steam deck didn’t succeed in spite of its lack of windows, it succeeded BECAUSE it ran a purpose built OS.
Like imagine looking at a market where the Switch exists and saying “My path to victory is Microsoft Windows, that is what the people are demanding!”
Even worse is that there almost certainly going to be some sort of handheld optimized windows release in the coming years from MS and they have zero incentive to license it to hardware OEMs. Best case for MSI et al is that they build a market for MS to steal from them in a year or two.
There already is a handheld optimized MS OS, the xbox. It’s made to be used with a controller on screen of any size, if they baked in the support for PC games they would be 90% of the way to a Steam Deck.
Done, I’ve read enough.
It’s crazy to me the way that all of the also-ran handhelds seem bent on putting a desktop OS on these things. The steam deck didn’t succeed in spite of its lack of windows, it succeeded BECAUSE it ran a purpose built OS.
Like imagine looking at a market where the Switch exists and saying “My path to victory is Microsoft Windows, that is what the people are demanding!”
Even worse is that there almost certainly going to be some sort of handheld optimized windows release in the coming years from MS and they have zero incentive to license it to hardware OEMs. Best case for MSI et al is that they build a market for MS to steal from them in a year or two.
There already is a handheld optimized MS OS, the xbox. It’s made to be used with a controller on screen of any size, if they baked in the support for PC games they would be 90% of the way to a Steam Deck.
It’s crazy to me that there’s not already a handheld Xbox. Or that they don’t at least license the software the same way they do with Windows.
Don’t forget,
Are they that much better than AMD?
They’re not better at all. I’m guessing Intel paid them to make it because that’s the only explanation that makes sense.
But it comes with 7 days of Ubisoft+ for free!
Which is like a double insult. 7 days is a pittance but it’s also Ubisoft who think AAAA is just a price point.
Also I wonder what the battery life is like with the Intel silicon.
That’s a reason I would not buy this
Thank you for saving me so much time.