HP typically makes garbage nowadays, so I dunno how many people are clamoring for them to make a handheld.
I work with HP (Poly) on a daily basis and I will never own one of their products. They’re a pain to work with and their products are outclassed by less expensive options.
Fuck HP. Trash company.
I too have the bad fortune to remove HP crapware from computers. When they ask me for a reason why I don’t want their McAfee or Wolf security or to send all my data through their servers, I take the time to write something like “I hate your shitty company and your products”
I’m on the AV side of things and am currently dealing with their cameras not working with the 3rd party extenders that HP recommended. And why do they need these extenders at all? Because they’re USB in 2025 and Poly refuses to make their own.
We have 20 different installs going on with the exact same setup and HP is just like “huh that’s weird!”
Bonus rant: before HP bought them, Poly had normal SKUs. Like you knew what the product was based on the SKU. You knew if it was hardware or a service line. Now, the Poly E70 (shit camera btw) for example has the SKU “67J25AA#ABA.” The E60 is "9W1A6AA#AC3.
I asked our rep directly what the fuck was going on with this garbage and he told me HP stuck all the products on a spreadsheet and basically assigned the SKUs randomly. There is no rhyme or reason.
I’d never buy anything HP again. They earned 1st place on my do-nerver-ever-even-consider list with bravado some 25 years ago already.
Look, same, but just for the fun of it I like to imagine there is some magic point here where HP decides to make a steam deck os handheld, but doesn’t give a shit enough to focus on loading it up with shovelware, they just sort of say ok lets make a handheld that can run steamos and just focus on the hardware, leave em to the wolves I mean steam support.
They can make decent hardware, at least on their business laptops, it can be wildly inconsistent, kind of reminds me of like an audi car (at least in the US) some of them are actually pretty decent and reliable but some of them are fucking horror stories that never end for the owner lol…
But it would still be an HP so… gross.
I know HP printers are generally considered the worst printers you can get, but I don’t really know how good their other product lines are.
It’s different departments, so possibly they could make a decent handheld? Mainly it’s just good to hear hardware companies are aware of how bad windows is for gaming devices.
I had an omen laptop with a 2060 and it was alright. I wanted better performance on a 1440p monitor so I sold it for a desktop build.
When I was younger I had an HP and a Campaq laptop. Both were garbage.
Technically if you store the ram into the hard drive and resume, such as the Hibernation Mode included in most Windows versions (idk anything about 11) then it would resume exactly where you left off.
But its moot because there is no future for Windows.
A lot of games do weird things on windows after sleep or crash outright, I’m assuming hibernation would also mess things up.
There are enough different versions that this might not be universal, but it would have to do so on battery power because hibernate turns off the power supply. Sleep certainly isn’t the same as Hibernate, but some versions of windows replace the option for hibernate with the option for sleep, but they do not function the same.
Yeah, I’m just guessing that sleep is less disruptive than hibernate, because the ram never even has to be unloaded and reloaded.
Edit: seems like I’m wrong, doing some searches shows that people with the ROG Ally are disabling sleep and forcing the Ally to hibernate mid game. Doesn’t work for all games, but does for more games than sleep. People also report that the Ally was frequently waking up on it’s own from sleep and overheating in their bags, and that wifi would stop working after sleep, so definitely sounds like hibernate is the way to go on windows devices.
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