Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
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These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Curious why the 1 tb? What’s your use case? I assume lots of standalone gameplay… but what about the low end snapdragon performance compared to pc streaming?
Just trying to wrap my head around the things.
It's a PC, so at some point they'll be a custom fork of an emulator I'll want to play with. I have multiple 100+ GB games, and I doubt it'll be as easy as the Deck to swap in a bigger drive. Not to say the "Future Proof" word but my PC doubles as the Family PC so I can't always rely on streaming and my living room PC only has Steam on it these days for Jackbox.
Bare minimum, it needs to have H3VR on it and I'd prefer the overhead. Doesn't matter, since I got randomized to the "too far out to bother forecasting a number" again so it looks like the economy will probably collapse before I get to order it anyway.
1tb isn't all that much these days. Especially considering one of the big selling points of the Frame is "access to the biggest existing library and ecosystem".
1tb would have been a lot in, say, 2009. But, now, in 2026 (almost two decades later), there are multiple games that won't even fit on 256gb even if you got the whole 256gb and there wasn't os or anything.
And considering the thing is basically a pc at this point, there's a TON more than just vr or flat screen gaming that you're gonna be able to do on it. And, sure, it has a microsd slot (but no headphone jack, fuck you apple!), but I don't want to rely on that and would much rather have that as an option down the line, years from now, when things get even bigger.