the benefit here is that the game developers know this device as a standard target, and steam will tell you how well a game works at purchase time.
replyvalheim started with extremely poor steam deck performance, but at some point, the team did steam deck optimizations that got it humming nicely enough
The Steam Deck is the closest thing the PC world has to a console (barring the Steam Machine, of course), and features near-console levels of hardware/software integration.
replyWay too many prebuilts use fully custom components making it (intentionally) hard to upgrade them piecemeal.
replySounds like a further disadvantage of going that route, like maybe you get a swappable GPU and RAM, but your motherboard and power supply are custom to the case it came in or something.
replyYep, this is what I've noticed. As long as you can stick with the same motherboard and PSU, you can kinda-sorta upgrade them. But after that you hit a wall.
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