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I’m not in the market for the GabeCube but if I were, I’d find a price point of $500-$600 attractive, given it’s mostly just laptop tier hardware. I would prefer it over the current gen of consoles, although I don’t know if there’s gonna be the same level of optimisations for games on this as there is on consoles.

Upgradability would’ve been nice, too.

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kmacmartin@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Speaking of upgradability, I wonder if an egpu could be connected to that usbc port.

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forks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think the RAM just uses laptop sticks, so it is upgradable

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- FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oh that’s cool, didn’t see that. I have no idea why Valve didn’t mention that in their reveal, that’s a huge advantage over consoles.
  
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  - FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    RAM being upgradeable is basically irrelevant for a fixed-GPU device.
    
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    FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    More RAM doesn’t just benefit the GPU, there’s plenty of games today that use more than 16GB of system RAM on their highest settings and that’s only gonna become more common in the future… Besides, with this being literally a Linux PC, there’s more ways it could make use of the extra RAM than just games.
    
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