kurcatovium@piefed.social 6 days ago
That sucks. I hoped Valve would price it competitively to boost the sales and adoption. But why would I buy this “crippled” PC for the same price I can buy retail? The main gripe for me is Gabecube has no room for upgrade, not even second drive, nothing. Which obviously is not the case with self built PC.
Don’t get me wrong I still like the idea, but the price just must make sense.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 5 days ago
why do you think it’ll be crippled?
kurcatovium@piefed.social 5 days ago
I mean crippled like it is “as is”, no space to expand, tinker, swap parts. I’ve also seen a rumor it’ll have locked BIOS, but I hope that’s just a rumor.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 days ago
I doubt all of those concerns. The Deck can be expanded just fine.
kurcatovium@piefed.social 5 days ago
How? I’ve seen photo of inside, there’s nothing. You can replace m.2 and that’s it.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 days ago
RAM on the Steam Deck is not expandable.
Well, it technically is if you remove the current RAM chips, solder on new double density RAM chips, and flash the BIOS. But compared to a regular PC of just plugging the RAM sticks into the Motherboard slots they belong in, trying to expand RAM on the Steam Deck might as well be considered not possible. Even if you do expand the RAM, there is no noticeable performance gain.