I was convinced for me it would be the 90hz refresh rate, or the improved touchscreen/haptics - but the moment I picked up the new OLED I knew my answer straight away:

The 30g they removed from the weight.

I’m sure that sounded minimal and inconsequential for a lot of us when we heard about it, but when you pick it up, you feel it immediately.

The original steam deck was always a bit too heavy for me to hold comfortably. Especially as I struggle with a disability which makes me pretty weak in general.

Now the device is so much more comfortable to hold. I can actually pick it up and hold it with one hand now, whereas before it would always overbalance and I could never keep it straight.

What’s the best upgrade from your experience so far, if any of you are lucky enough to have an OLED now?

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    1 year ago

    Literally my SD oled wouldn’t connect during out of the box setup because it was trying to associate in 6 GHz where WPA3 is required. Packet capture showed the SD deauthing itself after receiving the Association Response from the AP in 6 GHz.

    When I go and try and setup the network manually it only lists None and WPA2 as security options. It won’t connect when WPA3-Personal is in Transition Mode either. Is your experience different? This seems like Valve completely overlooked the WPA3 requirement for 6 GHz operation.

    Now if you break out of Steam and look underneath, it is running wpa_supplicant version 2.10 so it should have zero problems connecting to WPA3 in 6 GHz. It just seems the network manager on Steam does not support WPA3 period right now.