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Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

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224 points cspags | 3 comments | 01 Dec 25 01:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.544s | source
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daemonologist ◴[07 Dec 25 02:20 UTC] No.46178619[source]▶
I'm holding out a little bit of hope that Valve puts out a laptop - the Steam Deck has notably good power management for a linux device of its class (and I've even heard of people using them as laptop replacements), though the idle power is still higher than a Macbook. They're going to have made a desktop, gaming handheld, and VR device; why not one more?
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1. viraptor ◴[07 Dec 25 11:54 UTC] No.46181095[source]▶
What would be the reason for their laptop to exist? People on the move get the steamdeck. Others get the GabeCube. Based on the steam hardware stats / graphics cards, there's very little laptop usage. I'm not sure there's enough market to get them interested.
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2. gpm ◴[07 Dec 25 14:57 UTC] No.46182121[source]▶
College students playing video games in class? Also in dorm rooms where they don't have space for a whole monitor/keyboard/mouse setup.

But yeah seems like a game adjacent market... Which might be fine but isn't there MO.

3. daemonologist ◴[07 Dec 25 19:30 UTC] No.46184335[source]▶
The reason would probably have to be because the employees themselves want such a device; maybe there could be some angle of having an ARM dev machine for the Steam Frame. I agree that it seems unlikely though.