Mine pre-dates the Xbox branding, and I’m not sure what it means with regard to what you already own on Xbox. I have installed SteamOS on mine though, and everything has been installed natively. While I’ve only tested the games out, it seems to be able to handle the more demanding games like Cyberpunk and Baldur’s Gate 3 pretty well running on the handheld. I’m typically playing metroidvanias on it though, so I’m not doing anything too demanding.
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Picked up the Legion Go S with the better chip and SteamOS. I wanted the bigger OLED screen on the Go 2, but it’s sold out everywhere so I settled for the S.
Wish I’d done this sooner. It’s what I wanted my Switch to be - Diablo 4 runs seamlessly, as do most of my steam games. Only issue I’ve run into is games that want a keyboard and mice, but minor quibble. Zero hiccups running games at full framerate; the battery sucks but I kind of knew that going in and my use is mostly near outlets anyway.
Grips are super comfortable, way more so than the Switch/ Switch 2. It’s like holding an Xbox pro controller that just got split in half.
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For those games that play better with a keyboard/mouse, I bet you could connect Bluetooth peripherals. That’s what I do with my Steam Deck. I’ve got the keyboard/mouse pair linked below … there are definitely higher end products, but they work great for me and are easy to stow in a backpack when I travel.
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You definitely can, I just haven’t bothered yet lol. Thanks for the link tho I’ll check them out!
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I’m looking for some advice from anyone familiar with Apple computers. While I’m still able to work with hardware, my computer knowledge has been left far behind when it comes to software, and I know nothing at all about Apple computers other than the fact that 20 years ago I never would have considered one because they didn’t play my games easily.
My kids have been seeing commercials for the MacBook Neo and, surprise surprise, want one. Thanks, pretty colors and fancy marketing….anyways, Im trying to figure out if they are appropriate, especially for my son’s interests.
We are pretty well entrenched in the Apple infrastructure in my house. We all have watches, iPhones, and iPads, though the kids stuff is hand me down. We have HomePods in a number of rooms and Siri controls my lights, outtlets, garage door, coffee, etc.
My daughter isn’t an issue. She will use it for journaling and writing and things like that. My son, on the other hand, wants to learn to code. He’s been learning Python but looks at other languages sonetimes. I’ve also bought him an arduino to work on smaller engineering problems. Is this kind of stuff possible on Macs?
And what about gaming? We are console gamers here but he does like StarCraft 2 and wants more RTS games. Can those run in Macs these days?
Thanks for any advice and input.
My 2021 Macbook Pro can game pretty decently - it can certainly handle Starcraft 2, Civ 7, and the likes of those. I haven’t tried more intense stuff like Arc Raiders or something of that ilk on it, but I think it’d be ok, at least not running super intense graphic settings. I think one of the biggest issues with gaming on a Mac is finding games that support it, even on Steam.
I’m assuming you could code on the Neo - I haven’t coded a thing since my Basic days - but I’d be very surprised if it gamed decently. From what I’ve heard it’s an A18 chip, which is the same thing in an iPhone 16.
Games are not a high priority and SC2 might be at the top end of the graphical requirements.
Did a little reading and I think that, while the Neo can handle small programming projects, it’s not going to do great with them. Seems like more of a tablet replacement than a laptop replacement, akin to the Microsoft Surface. I had a Surface for teaching (computer engineering classes), and even the introductory programming examples I ran could be a struggle on it. Doesn’t matter how simple the programs themselves are; the development environment (IDE) is most likely going to consume enough resources that everything’s going to slow down/drain battery like a champ.
In general, programming on Macs works well. I like Apple’s Xcode IDE for general programming. Arduino certainly supports MacOS, and I would suspect (though I haven’t looked in a while) most other microcontroller platforms do as well.
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You might do better getting him a MacBook Air. That’s intermediate power-wise between the Neo and the Pro line. It’s unlikely you need to splurge for a Pro.
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