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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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As I understand it, it's the same engine under the hood, you're paying for better screen quality and a slightly longer battery life.
It has slightly different internal and external form factors in ... basically only esoteric ways that only come into play if you are doing certain kinds of physical mods or upgrades to it.
But yeah, the actual internal performance specs are the same, same chip, same shared RAM amount...
I think maybe the battery might have gotten a slight upgrade, either that or the power delivery / management may have gotten a slight upgrade / tweak, but I am not 100% sure about that.