Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders
4am@lemmy.zip 2 days agoWhy would anyone who’s in the market for a by-itself motherboard ever want something you can get as a modular piece as a built-in to another expensive piece?
Besides, if you want everything soldered on you can just buy a laptop motherboard.
Or a Mac
For the same reason there’s other options. Having options alone is more than enough reason.
A motherboard with a built-in GPU has obvious price, cooling design and size advantages.
The only things I suggest to be soldered are the GPU and the VRAM since GPUs are extremely sensitive to their memory setup. CPUs can use off-the-shelf stuff without issue.
The niche is already filled by NUC sized PCs from China.
Where would one be able to see their stock? All I seem to find are $1500 PCs.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
For the same reason that people are interested in the steam machine. It’s nice to be able to just throw some money at people and get a complete product. I can see businesses getting these things if they need a moderately powerful GPU for business reasons. In less valve go utterly mad on the pricing here it’s going to be much better value for money than a Mac mini, and it’ll have better compatibility with existing software as well.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
“I’m not interested in that product. It is impossible for someone to be interested in that product.”