

Digital Trends’ Computing senior staff writer. My perspective changed when I chatted with Jacob Roach. Sure, it’s life-changing for anyone whose job hinges on having easy access to games, but some of the Steam Deck’s more frustrating quirks make it harder to recommend to a casual player. Part of that may have been a little reactionary, as I’ve developed a pet peeve in the past year: hearing people who work in games tout it as a “life-changing” device. Though I love the gaming device and use it as much as my Nintendo Switch, I initially found my feelings skewing more negative than I expected. No joke - Asus is releasing a Steam Deck competitorĩ Apple products we’re expecting in 2023: iPhone 15, M2 Mac Pro, and moreĪ new iMac and 15-inch MacBook Air are almost ready to launchĪs the Steam Deck’s one-year anniversary approached, I found myself itching to write a reflection on my past 12 months with it. Own an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook? Install this critical update right now Even if it is buggy and half-baked, it’s more daring than anything I’d ever try. Still, I think running macOS on a Steam Deck takes the biscuit for now.

There’s an entire cottage industry of people running macOS on custom PC hardware, crafting machines called “Hackintoshes.” And if you combine Apple’s Sidecar and Universal Control features, you can even get macOS to run almost natively on an iPad. We’ve seen Apple’s old-school System 7 installed on a graphical calculator. It’s not the first time macOS has found itself on an unfamiliar device. I suppose we shouldn’t be too picky at this stage, since getting a full desktop operating system to work on a Steam Deck - something both the software and the hardware were entirely unprepared for - is an impressive feat in itself. On the other hand, “Sound, GPU and (for some reason) security settings” were out of order. When asked what was working and what was not, Lampa183 responded that the device could access the internet and that the touchscreen was “partially” working. This Mac malware can steal your credit card data in seconds Fitbit Versa 3Ĭan the ROG Ally challenge the Steam Deck? Here’s how they compare
