Steam Deck, Valve's first laptop with a shape more like a console like the popular Nintendo Switch, is a really interesting product that allows you to play a large part of your library of titles purchased on Steam on the go. The device is equipped with a custom AMD SoC, consisting of four Zen 2 CPU cores with SMT running at a base frequency of 2.4GHz and Boost of 3.5GHz, accompanied by an integrated RDNA 2 GPU with eight compute units and one clock maximum of 1.6GHz. The APU has a variable consumption from 4 to 15 W according to the type of load and can count on 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, as well as an amount of storage space that changes depending on the model purchased, expandable via SD.
SteamOS is the operating system installed as standard, which has been extensively optimized to maximize performance and reduce consumption, to the advantage of autonomy. Obviously, this does not prevent the "geeks" from installing Windows 10, the penultimate iteration of the popular OS from Microsoft. However, until now, the operation was not recommended, as the necessary drivers were still missing to make the various internal components work properly.
Unfortunately, at the moment it is not possible to set the system in dual boot (for example with Windows and SteamOS ), but this is a possibility that Valve is already working on and that should become a reality with future updates.
