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This is the best coverage of the new Deck that I've seen yet.

Upgraded:

  • 7.4" OLED HDR screen with a 90hz refresh rate and 600 nits brightness(with 1000 nits peak brightness), (old screen 7" LCD with 60hz refresh and 400 nits brightness). Touchscreen accuracy and responsiveness is reportedly improved.

  • Longer battery life. Improvements to software and hardware are supposed to increase the battery life by 30-50%. New battery is 50wh vs original 40. Original decks will see some of this improvement thanks to software/bios updates, but not as much as the new Decks. The new Deck charges faster as well, charge from 20 to 80% battery in 45 min.

  • 6E wifi module for improved wifi speed.

  • Dedicated bluetooth module, allowing better audio quality over bluetooth and the option to wake the steam deck from a bluetooth controller. Will also support more controllers at once for multiplayer.

  • Faster RAM, 6400 MT/s vs 5500 MT/s on original.

  • More repairable. The screws are now torx, and all thread into metal screw holes. Should prevent stripped screws that were the most common issues with SSD replacements.

  • New carrying case, for the 1TB model, there's an insert case inside the full size case. The insert can be pulled out and used as a slim carrying case when you don't need full protection.

  • Weighs 5% less.

Prices:

$649 - 1TB OLED

$529 - 512GB OLED

$399 - 256GB LCD

For a limited time, Valve will sell a special edition 1TB OLED with a translucent shell for $679, only in the US and Canada. Expected to sell out quickly.

Note: I'm updating this as I get more information, so the written out info will change as I learn more.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if this is going to be a replacement or a sibling to the current model?

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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Sustained brightness is 600 nits, 1000 nits is peak brightness for HDR content. Still an improvement of course.

I'm wondering whether the charging circuitry is largely the same except for the quicker charging to 80 %. I'd love to be able to use some higher-powered USB-C hubs with PD passthrough, where currently a hub using 15 watts leaves 30 watts for the deck, and using a higher wattage charger won't change that because the Deck only requests 45 watts (15 V @ 3 A). Would be great if the new Deck could do, say, 60 watts (20 V @ 3 A), because leaving just 30 watts to the Deck is right on the edge under full load with an external display, meaning it has to fallback to battery momentarily, which isn't great.

Another nice thing to have would be a low-power standby/download mode, for which they'd probably have to tweak the hardware a bit. I don't use my Deck too often (great device, but it only fills specific gaps in my gaming needs), and every time I pick it up it starts downloading quite a few game updates.

The OLED model is tempting, but I don't use the Deck enough to justify upgrading I think.

A bit sad for these guys who made a display upgrade for the original Deck released a few weeks ago (the 1920x1200 one), as most people who really care about display quality will probably just upgrade to the OLED model instead. The higher resolution seems rather pointless (the Deck doesn't have enough oompfh to run modern games in this resolution), especially compared to a bigger, brighter, higher refresh rate OLED screen.

[–] Vt1984@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I cannot use the oled screen, it hurt my eyes. Unfortunately the original steam deck screen also flickers.

[–] robinj1995@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. I think OLED is meant to be more comfortable to the eyes actually.

[–] Vt1984@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It is an improvement over the original steam deck screen. But I wish Valve could use some non-PWM screens to protect my eyes better

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago
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