You're right, but personally there are no situations where I would travel with a Steamdeck and not a laptop. Maybe if I was going on vacation but I don't think I'd bring a Steamdeck then anyway.
It's a bit more work to just pull out and play - I need to turn on the laptop too, such effort!
I forgot to mention in the original post - I thought I was going to only be able to use this in places with really fast wifi. But it turns out I can just turn on a 5g hotspot on my laptop and connect the tablet to that. As long as I'm in the same room, it's fast enough for the max quality settings in Moonlight and I get around 10ms latency.
So it's not as portable as a Steamdeck. But it is "fits in a backpack" portable.
It's a bit more work to just pull out and play - I need to turn on the laptop too, such effort!
I forgot to mention in the original post - I thought I was going to only be able to use this in places with really fast wifi. But it turns out I can just turn on a 5g hotspot on my laptop and connect the tablet to that. As long as I'm in the same room, it's fast enough for the max quality settings in Moonlight and I get around 10ms latency.
So it's not as portable as a Steamdeck. But it is "fits in a backpack" portable.