I wish them success so that they can scale up and provide good customer service
I think I’m kind of fucked. I Am forever lost in the depths of Linux. I just read the headline and thought to myself “Who the fuck pays for a Linux terminal and what does it have to do with emulators?”
I could see donating to your favorite terminal emulator. cool-retro-term is, well, pretty cool.
Awesome, glad they’re doing it.
The problem is the price and the timeframe. The next batch is available next May?
For that price, more than a year from now, you’ll likely be able to assemble or purchase a small form factor PC and build it out with similar or better components for significantly cheaper.
Man its gotta be a tough time to launch a console that can be cost competitive.
I gotta say, business wise they are handling it well IMO, although who knows if it will work on yhe long run.
Due to high demand, Playnix Console will be sold in monthly batches and to offer you the best possible price, we adjust the cost of each batch based on the actual price of components (especially RAM) at the time of manufacturing. This means the price may vary from one batch to the next.
At this point selling PCs without ram & storage is starting to sound like a reasonable thing. Especially as they claim it’s “upgradeable” as one of their major selling points and it uses standard DDR4 ram and NVME SSDs, so many people interested have spares from old builds collecting dust.
So far they’ve sold out the first three batches already, so either they’re lowballing their production runs or demand is strong.
Bad time to be doing this, the specs are lower than my tablet I dropped $800 on a few years ago.
Before anyone drops a console they need to wait for the RAM to stop being $500+ and a decent sized SSD costing more.
I even looked at sd cards to slap in the slot and move my media off the drive and those had also doubled in price over the time period they’d normally have halved the cost of a larger one.
What kind of tablet do you have that has 16gb of vram??
some ipad pro models have 16 combined ram?
I mean that is true, but still nowhere near the same thing as 16GB ram and 16GB dedicated vram. This thing has a 9070xt and a 600W PSU, so the other commenters claim that they have a higher specced tablet is just kind of absurd, especially since I don’t believe there’s a tablet in existence with discrete graphics. And even if it did, beating a recent gen card like a 9070 would be a really tall order.
yeah for sure it’s not comparable compute power but you asked 🤷♀️
Gotcha, I meant it more as a rhetorical question meant to point out that no tablet has 16GB of vram, so it kinda misses my point to talk about ones with 16GB combined ram.
I’ll disagree on the ssd part. I got a refurbished deck and have no issues with load times from the micro sd. But big yeah on the ram.
I get what you mean. When I played cyberpunk 2077 on my PC I noticed a huge performance benefit moving it from my spinning disk to my SSD. I think it’s because it dynamically loads as you play. So driving a car fast down the road for example leads to a lot of distant objects loading very late.
But on my steam deck I play all kinds of other titles. Even play coop Elden ring and that runs fine but the load times definitely lack compared to my desktop 🤣.
So I think YMMV depending on the game. I’ve got a 512GB deck with a 1TB SD card, SD card works pretty all right.
