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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
you can connect it up to an external monitor for higher resolution
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It’ll tank frame rate (like the switch in graphics-intensive games)
It has some decent stats but at the end of the day, it’s a mobile chip and mobile GPU and marketing at £350… you can’t churn out consistent performance at 1080p on a gaming laptop for under £700… and that’s on a proper processor like an i7 or whatever, and a less specialised/downscaled graphics chip too. And with better cooling options. Cooling is going to be a major glass ceiling for any handheld.
I think Valve is most likely selling at net loss (like the console market usually does on release) but they’re not going to take THAT much of a net loss.
We’ll see though. It might auto-adjust to low settings when connected to display. I suspect there will be some upscaling to 1080 from 720 (text and menus etc render at 1080, actual 3D assets render at 720) or maybe some 900p upscaled which was common a few console generations back. It went out of fashion but 900p is actually a very decent compromise for hardware that struggles slightly at full 1080.