My brother and a few of my friends have a Steam Deck, and the weight was another thing that got to me. But it works out great as a living room PC you can easily take from one friend's house to another to do couch multiplayer on the HDTV, and of course when you're traveling, like on planes and sh1t. You can't buy a laptop as cheap as the Steam Deck that packs the same amount of power. It's a fantastic device, but it's still not powerful enough for me. I wish the Steam Deck had the ROG Ally's hardware. Also my bro and every person I know who owns one all had to send them in for repairs, either immediately or some months down the line. The repair center that handled my brother's unit (fixing a faulty left shoulder button) broke one of the internal clips of the Steam Deck's shell. When he got the unit back from the repair center, he heard something rattling around inside. He wishes he had just done the repair himself. The unit was still under warranty though, so he figured he would let Valve handle it. What he really wishes is that Valve would cover the cost of the replacement parts, but still let him repair it himself.
ASUS ROG Ally is ASUS, so you already know how customer service and repairs go with that one...
Hope Lenovo can do better.
...teenage me would've loved one of these...
Back then I was playing on original Game Boy and my brother's Game Boy Pocket (which while being a smaller unit had a bigger, clearer screen that also wasn't based on disgusting shades of green), so something like Switch, Steam Deck, or heck even PSP would have blown my mind.
...middle-aged me can't cope with such a small screen.
It's especially painful when using it as a normal PC. My bro and friends keep hubs around so they can easily hook up to external displays, have Ethernet, and have USB ports so they can plug in a mouse, keyboard, flash drives, etc.
As a child I would often play portable game systems in the car during long trips and whatnot, but by the time I was in my 20s I couldn't tolerate it anymore. Playing video games, watching videos, or reading books in a moving vehicle makes me super sick.
