• iamanurd@midwest.social
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      28 days ago

      Hard disagree. While my gaming pc at home is far superior, I still like to game when I’m travelling for work. Often gone for 3 week stretches.

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        28 days ago

        I have a steam deck for that, for work (also traveling sometimes months at a time) i have a big Workstation laptop and carry a docking station.

        I tend to have nicer and more relaxing gaming sessions on my deck, and it also doesn’t sound like a fighter jet and screams it needs power after 20 minutes of working under load.

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            28 days ago

            Hm… Competitive is something i don’t like, but i play other resource heavy games like rimworld with basically the entire steam workshop or Dyson Sphere Program. They are working nicely on Steam Deck and you can play on a couch or in the plane or basically any place. You need a table for a laptop and external hardware for playing, at least a mouse or gamepead

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              28 days ago

              Yeah, I do enjoy the steam deck for things like that. For comp stuff I’m m&k anyway, so I lug an actual keyboard and good mouse as well. 😊

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                28 days ago

                I can see that, playing a shooter on steam deck would probably not be that nice.

                The biggest problem with gaming laptops i see is that they are as expensive or even more as a tower of better specs, and that they don’t actually have mobility, shure you can carry them from outlet to outlet, but a laptop should be able to run a few hours independent of a power source all gaming laptops i tried can’t do that. Also i don’t like the small keyboard layouts most regular laptops have, my workstation laptop has full sized keyboard with numpead and i carry a mouse with 16 buttons (F13-F24, and a side scroll wheel on the mouse) and the gaming laptops usually have the small keyboards without numpead and double use F1-F12 keys.