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The fact that you can play it resting on a couch vs desktop gaming on a home office chair justifies the expense for me personally, but you might not be that lazy.

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But couch gaming is so much better with a lighter device in hands and a TV hooked to a PC. I, too, want a Deck but can't justify the waste because my cute little htpc is much, much faster. Not that it needs to be, 90% of the time. Nothing fancy. Mostly 8 and 16-bit stuff.

That said, the deck is almost cheaper than the 5800u tomtom sort of sff pcs on aliexpress. Everything considered, it's not a bad product at all. I fear its future looks brighter than that of my index

Briefly looked at something like a Intel NUC 11 Extreme Kit for htpc, until I realized that the Deck will be useful for the 2-3 flights I take every year as well, so for now it still has higher priority on my wish list.

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