Yes, Valve (kinda) downgraded the Steam Deck. No, it doesn’t matter. (Plus other Deck News)

The Steam Deck’s SSD gets a new model being shipped. Here’s why people are up in arms. Plus, there’s a mod that will kill your Steam Deck, and more!

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Gamespot Article: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-deck-mod-lets-you-install-larger-m-2-drives-but-valve-says-not-to/1100-6504879/
Lawrence’s response: https://twitter.com/lawrenceyang/status/1540863166438969345

Steam Deck’s minor hardware revision: https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-says-steam-decks-ssd-change-impacts-performance-only-in-extremely-uncommon-cases/

Q3 emails started June 30th https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1542546382946308097

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# What are your machines specs?
Office Rig:
* AMD Ryzen 7 1800x
* MSI Pro Series X370 SLI PLUS
* AMD RX VEGA 64
* GSkill Ripjaw V DDR4 8GB x4 (32 GB)
* Fractal Design Define R9 Case
* Manjaro GNOME

Living Room Gaming Rig:
* ASUS X99-E-10G WS
* Intel Core i7-6900K @ 3.2GHz
* NVidia Titan X (Pascal)
* DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RGB 8GB x8 (64GB)

Backup Rig
* System76 Thelio Minor
* AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
* DDR4 16GB RAM
* Zotac Nvidia GTX 970 4GB

Home Server:
* ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3
* AMD FX 6300 at 3.5 GHz
* Nvidia GTX 750 1GB
* DDR3 20 GB RAM

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