Thoughts on the handheld PC boom? Do any upcoming releases look promising?
Thoughts on the handheld PC boom? Do any upcoming releases look promising?
Dylan Kelly
Parker Barnes
Wrong pic fuck
Retro handhelds are cool too
Jeremiah Carter
Maybe everyone wants a piece of the Dock market?
Dylan Phillips
>can't use the d-pad without fucking up your hands
hard fail. returned it almost immediately.
Cameron Allen
I just wanna emulate n64 and GC better than my Vita so I’m considering getting one
Cameron Gomez
You might like the 3
Levi Hughes
Seems like handhelds are trending towards big Windows/Android handhelds since people want to be able to emulate more powerful systems but I'm not interested in ones that aren't portable. The Miyoo Mini is a lot cooler to me, I love that this thing fits so easily in my pocket. I hope this side of the handheld scene continues to expand. I want to see more powerful chips in this size and more importantly if someone can finally figure out how to do good shoulder buttons on small and/or vertical form factors.
Robert Moore
there's no boom. these chink handhelds wont ship until months into 2023 and they wont even sell through aliexpress so fuck them
Connor Foster
Idk most handheld PCs seems smaller than the deck
The ayaneo air and ayn loki are like the size of a switch litr
Mason Diaz
I wouldn't really consider the Switch Lite portable either. Yeah you can fit it in a bag but so can the deck. True portable to me is pocket size.
Nathan Long
I want a Windows handheld to play VNs, what do you guys recommend?
Jose Johnson
>not using the steam deck layout where the analog sticks and the dpad/face buttons are nearly at the same height
garbage. they just switched from having a useless dpad to having a useless analog stick
Josiah Martin
The vita feels good to use both the stick and dpad, I wonder why
Ayden Robinson
no it doesnt
Nathan Sanchez
When, or even if some of them ever ship, really isn't the point. The original handful of GPD models were popular enough that the company has stayed afloat and been aggressively designing new models. The UMPC market is booming, interest is now at an all time high.
In the 2000s we had tons of various handhelds like the OQOs, Nokia internet tablets, a dozen different random rugged tablet PCs, the multiple iterations of the Pepperpad, several iterations of the Samsung Q1, A Sony Vaio slider, ASUS R2H, there were tons. There were tons of different form factors, control schemes, but the one commonality was the hardware was too weak for how people really wanted to use them.
We are at the point now where mobile hardware is actually great. Mobile CPUs aren't struggling to do basic stuff like opening applications or load basic web pages. Gaming oriented PCs are only going to become more and more popular now. Demand and interest is steadily increasing.
Connor Taylor
Up
Matthew Turner
I'm excited about them (although the first one that got released was really underwhelming) I wonder how easy, or what chances do those other ones to get official steam os support
Jose Ortiz
These make sense but I don't really get the point of it's such a weird in-between where it's not "stick it in your pocket portable" and i
Jacob Kelly
Why won't they sell on aliexpress?
Christian Adams
Smaller chips are always behind because they use the bottom of the barrel surplus and it takes a while for cutting edge technology to trickle down. We are just now getting Cortex-A55 chips in ~$100 devices which were in phones 5 years ago as efficiency cores.
I really wish AMD and Intel priced their low end chips cheaply for this purpose but it isn't going to happen while x86 is still king. The AMD Medicino SOC should be competing with those $100 SOCs but no, it's competing in devices in the $300 range.
Carter Green
Chink scams. You're all being taken for a ride.