On the other hand, the LCD is perfectly fine.
Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever
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dukemirage 66 points 8 months ago
Pistcow 23 points 8 months ago
Its perfectly ok. The OLED runs cooler, brighter, and better battery life. Don't get me wrong when I got the led steamdeck when it first came out I played it more than my gaming PC. Steam deck is awesome but if you can manage the few bucks more always go OLED. I literally sold the LED at a steep discount and bought the OLED and dont regret it.
DacoTaco 15 points 8 months ago
Disagree on the oled thing. Oled is better in a lot of cases, specially if everything on the screen is constantly changing. However, for a computer that will be displaying the taskbar 70% of the time its not ok. Oled burn in is a thing
anomnom 4 points 8 months ago
I have a folder of backgrounds they switch every hour just for this reason.
But I hardly ever see them with full screen apps anyway and app/spaces switching with gestures is like second nature. Like having a laptop with 4-5 monitors.
lastweakness 2 points 8 months ago
Is pixel shifting a thing on Linux? The Steam UI too?
domi 16 points 8 months ago
To quote Rtings:
under normal circumstances, with mixed usage, burn-in isn't an issue
Even if your task bar is on 70% of the time, you're not going to see any significant burn-in.
defaultusername 3 points 8 months ago
Every Android phone I've owned with an OLED screen (including modern ones) have had burn-in (or rather, burn-out) problems, specifically with the status bar.
If I had a choice, I would still be using LCDs on phones.
Also on TVs with modern backlighting technology, LCDs are remarkably close to OLEDs in terms of picture quality.
domi 10 points 8 months ago
Phone AMOLED screens are entirely different beasts compared to QD-OLED/WOLED on TVs and monitors.
Phone OLEDs are much more dense, run much hotter and brighter, most also lack pixel shifting and many even pixel refreshing.
I also had some severe burn-in on phones.
arschfidel 10 points 8 months ago
Really? That's interesting, because I've never noticed burn-in on any of my OLED phones, even though I did use them for many years each. But then again, I've always wondered why seemingly nobody talks about burn-in on phones, while there is a lot of fuzz being made around it on computer monitors.
Flames5123 3 points 8 months ago
Right? Even just turning off the screen every day is good enough for the life of the screen.
AnyOldName3 2 points 8 months ago
What kind of time frame were they testing over? Not seeing any significant burn in means something completely different if they're testing for one year versus ten, especially for people who don't like replacing things that aren't totally unusable yet.
Fubarberry 12 points 8 months ago
A lot of people have done burn in tests on the OLED, and it's barely a concern. The tech has really improved.
DacoTaco 3 points 8 months ago
Since you said 'the oled' i assume you mean the steam deck oled. Im not denying its bad, on contrary. Steam deck is a device that is constantly changing whats displayed. Thats good to prevent burn in on any device. The guy said oled is always better, which is what i disagreed with. Ive seen enough phones and computers monitors that were oled that had the windows taskbar, or android status bar, burned in over the years cause its a static thing. Like any display, burn in is possible but dont underestimate oled on burn in
TheGrandNagus 6 points 8 months ago
Even then, the concerns are way way way waaaaaay overblown.
Hardware unboxed have been purposely trying to burn in an OLED for thousands of hours, and it's still barely perceptible even when you're trying to look for it by taking a picture of the screen then applying filters to make it more visible. In real world usage its effectively impossible.
With any modern OLED display, burn in is something you don't need to worry about.
despoticruin 3 points 8 months ago
I have a Phillips evnia ultrawide that has accumulated over 6000 hours SOT over the last year and a half, over 3k of that was playing RuneScape 3. You have to turn the brightness down to 10% and be on a flat grey screen to even see the beginning of burn in. It's really a non issue, even in "torture" scenarios like getting 200m mining xp on the screen full time.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 0 points 8 months ago
This is a steam deck, a game console, not a normal computer. If your taskbar is visible 70% of the time I question what you're doing with the device.
deus 1 point 8 months ago
Well, it seems to be a huge improvement over the LCD screen on the OG Switch so there's that. Besides, an OLED hardware revision isn't a given by any means, it's just speculation.
AngryPancake 2 points 8 months ago
I can replace my LCD with an OLED, right?
TheGrandNagus 2 points 8 months ago
There are aftermarket mods to upgrade to a 1080p OLED (which you probably don't want to do anyway because 1080p is much harder to run)
But you can't drop the SD OLED's display into the LCD model, no.
hereiamagain 1 point 8 months ago
I believe you. But it's funny, I have both, LCD and DeckSight. I can tell the difference if they're side by side. But often times I forget the OLED is an OLED đ€·ââïž
HoloPengin 1 point 8 months ago
The only thing I dislike about it, having seen the in-store demos, is the fringing on text and hard edges. It can looks like chromatic abberation in very contrasty games. The OLED subpixel layout just isn't quite ideal, especially at 1280x800 7.4".
The LCD version has less issues there. Less gaps between the pixels and a standard RGB vertical strip layout.
the16bitgamer 76 points 8 months ago
Good night cheapest game box on the market.
rotopenguin 51 points 8 months ago
With the way that memory prices are going, Valve is going to bring back the 64GB model.
/s
/not s
Creat 12 points 8 months ago
I got the 64gb intentionally to just put in a 512gb myself. Was no problem to do, and saved quite a bit on the price difference. I'm extremely happy with the device, but don't use it nearly enough.
Olhonestjim 10 points 8 months ago
I dropped in a 2Tb when prices were still good.
hereiamagain 1 point 8 months ago
Same. SO is on 512gb, plenty big for them, depends on what you need I guess. I wanted to never think about it again
dangrousperson 2 points 8 months ago
same
hereiamagain 10 points 8 months ago
SSDs are being affected too. Not as much, and I forget why exactly, maybe because it's all silicon and shares some manufacturing resources? đ€·ââïž
LeeNeighoff 5 points 8 months ago
Just for SATA I think
hereiamagain 2 points 8 months ago
That'll do something alright
Rcklsabndn 13 points 8 months ago
I'm glad I rebuilt my PC before they started requiring a rainbow clown wig on top of every module.
AlecSadler 4 points 8 months ago
jfc I gave away two sticks of this a year or two ago because I didn't need them anymore. if only I knew.
ztwhixsemhwldvka 12 points 8 months ago
If Gabe Newell was going to fund something with his personal finances why in living fuck would he subsidize a games console instead of donating to charity.
anakin78z 26 points 8 months ago
I just got a 2nd LCD during the sale. Unfortunately it was broken and I'm still waiting on a replacement. With any luck they'll send me an OLED one instead đ
Edit: just got the shipping confirmation, so no luck. Also, not getting it until the 29th. 23 days from reporting the issue to getting a replacement đ€Ź
GammaGames 18 points 8 months ago
Already out of stock
jafffacakelemmy 17 points 8 months ago
I'm sure the headline should say "once sold out, they'll only be available on the second-hand market". Not gone forever though.
blinfabian 27 points 8 months ago
nah they will be remotely exploding all steamdecks 100% real source trust me bro
RagingRobot 22 points 8 months ago
2 will be the final version too
1995ToyotaCorolla 28 points 8 months ago
Steam deck
Steam deck 2
Steam deck 2: episode 1
Steam deck 2: episode 2
Steam deck: alyx
the_tab_key 22 points 8 months ago
I have the 64gb LCD and run most games off sd card. With a quality card, it works really well.
the16bitgamer 5 points 8 months ago
I just got a 256GB steam deck. It's do able. But you'll want a PC nearby with your games installed. Then it'll just download it from your PC for lightning fast installs.
rotopenguin 3 points 8 months ago
The Deck's reader does the full 80MB/s UHS-I well enough. It works well electrically, but the ejector sucks. I've picked up my system, and had the card randomly hang out like đ. It is vital to tape over the card to keep it from wandering off on its own.
dil 2 points 8 months ago
I went with a cheap one, but it's max speeds should still be higher than what it can read/write, will try a more expensive one. Some games like flat out 2 worked off it, but loaded super slow with ocassional stutters and a single crash, would be fine on tv, but I want to quickly launch and play games when using a handheld. How fast do yours launch?
SkunkWorkz 1 point 8 months ago
Fortunately the NVMe is not that hard to upgrade. Like if you can replace a battery in an iPhone you can change the SSD in the Steam Deck.
lazycouchpotato 2 points 8 months ago
Gave my 64 GB to a family member. Have a gaming laptop so I don't miss it as much.
cupcakezealot -2 points 8 months ago
is that the largest one or the smallest one? (i just can't remember the three tiers)
i remember i got the larger one and still love it; i'm just worried if they stop selling it, it won't be able to be repaired if god forbid something happens to it
Fubarberry 4 points 8 months ago
Right now, they sell a 256GB LCD, 512GB OLED, and a 1TB OLED. The 256GB LCD is going away, leaving only the 512GB OLED and the 1TB OLED.
Previously they had offered 3 sizes of LCD, 64/256/512.
When the LCD models sell out for good, they might start offering a lower price OLED with less storage, but that's just speculation.
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Aye, I owned both. Got an LCD when it first came out and bought an OLED when they came out. Treat yourself, in all situations of visual screens OLED is better.
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