less VRAM than the fucking switch 2
It’s 9 GB reserved for games, shared between CPU and GPU. That’s not more than 8GB dedicated video memory.
And gaming laptops suck so hard, one of the advertised features of the Machine is that it’s almost silent.
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JustKeepStretching@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Oh come on. If they sell an 8gb of ram machine that is gimped for playing like a 3rd of games because of Linux for $1000 they are out of their fucking minds.
You can get a refurbished 4070 laptop for that amount of money, which would be a drastically more practical purchase.
For a little more you could get a 4070 desktop with 12gb of vram
dukemirage@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
survirtual@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
A third of games? What are you smoking?
Over 95% of games in my experience work on Linux, and perform better than windows.
What kind of people are still using Windows, anyway? That supports one of the most terrible companies on the planet, invades your privacy, worms into your brain, and takes over your hardware…all for your 1 or 2 games you want to play?
This Steam Machine is going to be a blowout success. Linux gaming is superior in nearly every way. It’s cheaper, it’s more ethical, and it gives you back control.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Haha. No it’s not. At $500 it might do alright. North of that it will fall flat. People into PC gaming will build something better. This is an attempt to get into console gaming. If it costs more than a PS5 or XSX, being able to run Steam games won’t save it.
I suspect it will be moderately successful but less so than the Steam Deck.
survirtual@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It will open PC gaming to people who couldn’t access it before. It isn’t for people who know how to build their own PCs, although even people who are tech experts would still want this sort of device.
This makes it easy for tech and tech adjacent people to recommend PC gaming to people with no tech ability.
That’s why it will be a blowout success. The Steam ecosystem is superior to every console gaming platform. Now we will have hardware that competes and exceeds current gen consoles with no maintenance or tech-nerd complications.
The steam deck was great but its specs made it a difficult sell when recommending it to people. You have to tweak a lot of settings and mess with stuff that most people don’t want to do.
This will change all of that.
Remind yourself in two years, and let’s see where it goes. I should still be here. Let’s touch base in 2 years.
far_university1990@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
By that logic all prebuild company will die. Are they?
Not steam, any. Can create link to random exe in steam hub.