u/bigbangdangler — bigbangdangler

Tbh I'm not surprised at the cost. I'm more surprised that it isn't even more expensive given the state of things.

Will I get one? Idk. Maybe. It's a decent chunk of change, but I've still not dived into VR. I had been waiting for this one because I'm sure it plays nicely with Linux, without having to do some hacky shit, and I like it better than the Index.

I figure the 256GB model will be entirely fine, especially with the SD card expansion slot. Pity that you can't upgrade the storage like the Deck, but oh well.

For the life of me I cannot imagine that anything running locally on the Frame would need enough bandwidth from storage to not be able to run it off of SD anyway. For anything using the emulation layer, it's sure to be slow enough where one won't notice. For anything running ARM native, it's sure to be simple enough that one won't notice.

I bought my first one for whatever full price was.

When they went on deep discount ($5), I was lucky enough to snag 2 more as replacements. But to date, the first one has held up.

Yeah for sure. Technically a PC does count as an obstacle, but in practice it's not a large enough one to matter. If it were a room or two over, then maybe.

I remember reading this thing has poor obstacle penetration but I’m assuming that’s talking about walls and furniture, not a pc, but will that be a problem?

My understanding is it ships with a WiFi dongle. So yes, anything about "poor penetration" is talking about walls / concrete / similar. A port on the back of your PC should not be an issue.

For the rest, idk.

STOP TEASING