$749
Windows
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,
Intel integrated graphics
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.
Suppose this thing succeeds wildly. It sells a hundred million copies, they become a world-bestriding colossus.
It’s now a competitor to Microsoft, running Microsoft software.
That’s not a good place to be. I think this thing is dead as a concept.
How is it a competitor to Microsoft?
Xbox
What about it? There’s no Xbox handheld…
That’s fair, I pictured it as more a home system.
That said though:
What distro is it based on?
If I bought this I’d slap Bazzite on it as soon as it becomes supported.
Is that the bottles one or the egg roll one?
Neither? GE is Nobara. I run that on my old Nvidia machine because that’s the only one I was able to get working.
