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?
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.