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Lenovo Officially Announces The Legion Go S Handheld With SteamOS

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Glad to see more handhelds picking up Steam OS! So many portable competitors have been hampered by their OS sucking down limited resources while providing an inferior UI and UX.
- Glares at Armor Crate

Nice, now I finally have an upgrade path. I’ve loved my Steam Deck, but have wanted something I can have a “docked mode” with high performance and a “mobile” mode with the TDP locked to save battery.
- You can quickly set/remove a TDP limit on a Steam Deck whenever you want, though. Right?
  
  You can, thanks to SteamOS. That’s why I am looking forward to this device. It’s got a much higher performance ceiling than the deck, so I can throttle it down and have the option of performance or battery life. The deck wasn’t a powerhouse to begin with, so unless I’m playing a 2D clicker I never throttle the TDP.

Pricing starts at $500 USD with availability beginning in May.
That's incredibly tempting. I'm a little worried about the "up to" language here, which makes me think that this $500 unit won't be as attractive as I'm hoping for.
- It's similar but different, but I grabbed an original legion go used for $550 and it's the best money I've spent on tech.
  
  I feel the same about my Steam Deck. I love handheld gaming.

While I like the concept... isn't that a bit of what killed the initial steam machines. IE they basically encouraged everyone and their grandmother to release one... and the end result was the name was dilluted down so badly that no one knew what a steam machine was.
- The problem then was the immaturity of Linux for gaming. Valve has done a shit ton of work to make that possible and focused on a specific experience with the steam deck for several years. Now they're just expanding and building on that success, which is awesome to see.
  
  I fully agree that was "a problem". but I fully hold to the fragmented hardware also being a significant problem. IMO the steam deck still significantly makes gains from being a consistant hardware target for dev's to base things on, in addition to basically having little to no consumer confusion, if a game says "will run on steam deck", it's safe to assume, it will run on a steam deck. This time around valve specifically hasn't released a steam deck 2, because they want to avoid any hardware confusion.
- The problem with Steam Machines was that they were nothing but overpriced pre built PCs. And they usually shipped with Windows because only a handful of Steam games ran on Linux out of the box. That's basically what birthed Valve's investments into Proton.

And only for $120! That's crazy considering I just made that number up and it doesn't mention an estimated price point.
- Another outlet has it listed at $499, fwiw.

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