I would have preferred two touchpads, but the fact that they’re including one already sets them leagues ahead of the rest of the Steam Deck’s competition in the handheld PC market.
With how useful the touchpads are on the Steam Deck for navigating a desktop interface, I can’t imagine using a device without them.
Fully agree with you. Though I can’t imagine that a hardware company like Lenovo would be able to get two TouchPads working with games in any meaningful way; at least not without direct support from valve. Valve can only do it because they developed steam input with the two TouchPads in mind. Given Lenovo’s laptop experience I’d say the trackpad on this thing is likely just a mouse and can’t be configured as something else (which like you said is still a vast improvement over all these other non-steam deck handhelds that either poorly emulate mouse input with a joystick or worse don’t have any mouse control at all other than a touch screen). Though I guess Lenovo could have their own app that configures this stuff on its own. But I doubt that would come anywhere close to being as good as steam input. I also can’t imagine how cumbersome that kind of a solution would be; not to mention the almost guaranteed issues with game compatibility it would bring.
This seems like the right way to go for Lenovo imo without them having to invest in their own bloated software.
I have the Rog Ally and I love it but there are some issues with this. I’m digging how this looks and the detachable controllers are really dope. I might just return mine and wait for this. Windows really needs to find a big picture mode to work. At least the Xbox App.
Theres at least steam big picture mode and you can filter all your games/apps through that. Otherwise yeah, its funny that there was that big push starting with 8.1 to “unify” everything and yet their new OS sucks on tablets.
So many people complained about 8, sadly. 8.1 wasn't so bad once there's a way to switch to boot to Desktop on default. 10 regressed on the tablet side.
I use the Lenovo gaming phone (Legion duel) it’s great hardware wise but the software is seriously flawed, and they have never fixed it after 2 years… So yeah I think I’ll stick with the steamdeck
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