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Socoder -> Hardware and Technology -> ROG Ally |
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| Tue, 19 Nov 2024, 03:36 | |
Jayenkai
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ROG AllyOoopsie!!! For most of the year I've been waiting for the Switch 2 to arrive. Thinking "Should I just buy a SteamDeck?" but then carrying on waiting for that bloody Switch 2 announcement. Over the past couple of weeks I've been pondering if I should spend the "waiting for that Switch 2" cash on a MacMini M4, but I barely use the old 2015 MacMini for anything more than a storage device, and that has a 1Tb HD, so dropping to a 256Gb SSD will be quite the downgrade. .. And the £300 sits there, still waiting. And Xmas is coming, and god knows there's naff all else going on.. "Should I just buy a SteamDeck?" I found myself wondering, this morning. So I checked in on the status of SteamDeck, and it's still Linux driven. Now, don't get me wrong, I've nothing against Linux driven stuff, but if you look through the compatibility list.. It's very much based on modern games, and realistically, if I'm getting myself a modern gaming system, I'd still be playing the same early-2000's era games I've been playing this whole time. Half Life 2 being one of those, especially with all the 20th anniversary stuff going on. It's like the world wants me to be able to play Windows games, all of a sudden. And it sure would be good to have a Windows machine, especially if I can hook up a bluetooth keyboard and get Blitz/Max/Monkey going on there. Right?! So I'm still sitting here looking at the SteamDeck reading up on how much of a kerfuffle it can be to get Windows running on it, when I start reading about the ROG Ally. Nice and fast, large resolution, easy to hook up to the telly if I need to, and can even do bits of PC VR should I want to hook it up to the Quest3. And then I read more and more and more, and then I check Amazon, and it's currently down to £399 on Early Black Friday Deals, and I'm... .. checking that bank balance.. ... Yep, the Switch2's £300's still there. The ROG Ally will be here tomorrow, snow depending! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!'' 
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