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JustKeepStretching@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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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survirtual@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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- cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  This Steam Machine is going to be a blowout success.
  
  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.
  
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  - survirtual@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
    
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    cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Who couldn’t access PC gaming before? Best Buy has always had a few “gamer PCs” on the shelf, with a lot of LED lighting and flashy parts for people who don’t know any better. My brother in law is a car guy, does gaming on an Xbox. Got a little extra cash, so he bought one of these. Wondered why he wasn’t getting good performance. He had his HDMI cord plugged into the motherboard — he wasn’t using the 5060 it came with at all! I moved the cable down and his performance shot up. He said he’s since replaced it with a 5080. He gets 120FPS in Cyberpunk at 1440p with high settings and ray tracing on high.
    
    He reached out to a friend of mine who does custom PC building and my friend helped him upgrade a few things. He’s got 64GB of RAM, which he definitely doesn’t need, but it’s nice he’s future proofing. I think his CPU is a 9800XD or XP or something like that. It’s AMD. Nothing at all wrong with his setup. I’m just saying, a gearhead can get into PC gaming pretty easily with a prebuilt rig. Valve isn’t inventing shit with the Steam cube thing. They might be making PC gaming a little more accessible to console gamers, but I think the limitations, the tweaking, will put people off.
    
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  - far_university1990@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    People into PC gaming will build something better.
    
    By that logic all prebuild company will die. Are they?
    
    being able to run Steam games won’t save it.
    
    Not steam, any. Can create link to random exe in steam hub.
    
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    cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No because most prebuilt computers are sold by companies like Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Their bread and butter is corporate machines. They sell just enough enthusiast PCs to justify doing so, and they’re typically either sold for more than they’d cost to build, or right about the same, subsidized by cheaper, mass produced parts that “may or may not” be as good as the parts you buy a la carte from Amazon (e.g. Corsair et al).
    
    And of course it can run GOG and pirated games, but Valve doesn’t make any money from GOG sales (or your pirated games) so they aren’t going to care about that.
    
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