Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
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- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
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You'd need to plug in most of those mini PC right? I'm guessing that price for the performance is actually pretty decent for his use case, connecting to AR glasses on the go.
And the battery is integrated to the brick. Their is no hardware for sale for this kind of thing. You have to customers build everything and make some customizations to the OS. I tried a project like this years ago with a raspberry pi and a vufine as a screen. The customization were heavy and the thing was barely able to run any game for 300€ of hardware.
Yeah, saw an article about a ~$600 battery powered mini PC that would've possibly been a slightly less involved alternative, but it seems like the product itself has been wiped from existence.
On a side note, I bet it's a lot more durable without the screen but it's a shame he couldn't put a protective layer over it that slid on and off, would've really made it way cooler than just a mini pocket PC
Yeah or a screen cover like flip flop phone. That still a cool starting point for modders. The know issues are pretty much a no go for now. Especially the inability to go in the bios