I don’t mean BETTER. That’s a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That’s just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

  • @InverseParallax
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    11 month ago

    Gpd win mini.

    Fits in your pocket, puts the deck to shame and supports an external GPU.

    An absolute monster.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      I’d never heard of these so I checked it out. At a price point of about $1200 (over double what a steam deck costs) I certainly hope it “puts the deck to shame”.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        Meh, you’re not wrong, but I had the older gpd win2 for years and it was just incredible, nowhere near the power in this thing but full windows and a gamepad made steam rpgs endless fun.

        But this is a walkable, plus full gaming pc with an egpu (becomes a monster actually).