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		caslon on July 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve Steam Deck "laptop-grade" is mobile, in CPU terms. That's why Intel marks their laptop chips with an "M" at the end.

sudosysgen on July 15, 2021 [–]

Yes and no. There are desktop computers with laptop chips and laptop chips are much closer to desktop than to a phone for example

half-kh-hacker on July 16, 2021 | [–]

In this context, 'mobile' does not mean 'phone', it means 'portable'.

sudosysgen on July 16, 2021 | | [–]

Sure, and "portable" is a useless class of chips. It's too large to be useful.

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