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Cheaper

Isn’t the Ally a lot more expensive than the Deck?

easier to use

I’d also question this, obviously everyone’s familiar with windows but the handheld experience is pretty rough when compared with SteamOS.

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xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Walmart prices:

512 GB Ally: $399

512 GB Steam Deck: $499

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- Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  To be fair, that’s the low power Ally with a pretty significant 20% off sale.
  
  I’m not well educated on the power difference, but a quick google search shows the cheaper Ally gets about 60% the benchmarked performance of the more expensive Ally when plugged in. There’s also a significant drop when not plugged in, but less severe (only about a 20% drop in fps). Source
  
  I suppose the real question is how does it compare to a Steam Deck at that price, and if the drop in power is worth the price difference.
  
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  - Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    iirc they’re all similar amd chips but the steam deck has the lowest performance by a small margin. But the steam deck uses less overhead with Linux.
    
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Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Yeah, those two are debatable at best, but the other points sure make a lot of sense, and definitely have value. I say this as a SteamDeck user who never even considered the Ally for myself.

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