EDIT: Oh fuck it, you guys convinced me. Gonna get mine in a few 🥳

Thanks for all the inputs! That was very very helpful! Few things I’ve learned so far: 1 - It’s great for times that you don’t wanna stay in the office all day and spend more time with your loved ones. 2 - You can use Moonlight and Steam Link to local-wifi connect to your PC and play games on it without spending as much battery with a good wifi connection. 3 - It’s AMAZING for commuting and times you are not at your gaming rig 4 - You can basically install anything on it, and it could potentially replace your PC if it’s not as-capable.

I guess I won’t be purchasing it at the time as I have figured I could remote-play on my iPad 12.9 inch, and atm I’m not commuting so much so I guess it’s just a shiny gadget that I’d love to have sometime but don’t really need to spend money on it right now.

I’ll probably wait a few years for SteamDeck V2 to come out (rumors are saying it’ll be here at 2026+ so we’ve got a lot of time!) and it’ll replace my current laptop then.

Thanks everyone! That was very helpful and I learnt a lot from it! Saved a few bucks thanks to you guys and found a new cool way to enjoy my iPad :)

EDIT: Fuck it I’m getting one.

This is basically having every console available atm at the palm of your hands

Wow! That sounds amazing!

Oh wow I wish the steam deck would’ve been more powerful than my laptop! I would easily replace it with it!

That sounds like a great solution!

Playing on a steam deck on Linux based OS, to play a Nintendo switch game with a Xbox controller… This is such an amazing time to live in

Steam deck seems to be a great solution for a gamer dad

Does that work on different networks as well or only local-network?

I love all the tinkering part! It seems so fun to enable it to do basically everything!

Oh wow this is a great solution for hospitals and long wait-times!

Thanks! That’s a great input and is very helpful!

Yeah I think I’ll just do what you do at some point in the future. Makes a lot of sense

It helps you stay away from the Office room all day

Yeah it seems super convenient for that

Emulation is such a great reason to get it

Yeah I guess Switch VS SteamDeck is a hard choice. Basically the steam deck can have them both so that could possibly be both

One day I’ll replace my laptop with this… Makes so much sense

Oh wow I guess this’ll be a great solution when I’ll become a father eventually

It seems like a great device for traveling really