Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 month agoIt’s underpowered. That’s not debatable. It’s also a full generation (or 2 depending on release date) behind in GPU architecture with it being only RDNA3. That has big implications, one being it is stuck on FSR3, which is crazy considering it will heavily rely on on FSR due to being so weak.
Having a programmable light strip doesn’t make it “thoughtfully designed” lol. Well cooled means nothing when it’s so under-specced.
It’s a low spec SFF PC. That’s cool, but let’s not pretend it’s amazing hardware. The best thing about it is its size tbh.
theherk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And how would you feel if it were $4?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 month ago
$4?
theherk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, I meant precisely what I wrote. The point being that if it were $4, “underpowered” would be an absurd way to describe it, because value is a function of cost versus benefit, where benefit is subjective.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 month ago
Not really. This is made to play current games, and it’s underpowered for that no matter what the price is. It could still be great value while being underpowered.