Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

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• JustKeepStretching@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • survirtual@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Personally, I would be interested a different type of Steam Machine: A shrouded motherboard as a sort of LEGO base, into which you place modular blocks or cartridges that contain the PSU, CPU, USB, RAM, Wi-Fi, audio, drives, and graphics. Each block can have rails, to provide connections for power and signals, so that users don’t need to futz around with wires. Just plonk a brick down onto the rails below it, and you are good for that part.

  Would it actually work from an engineering perspective? No idea. All I know is that I would replace parts of my PC more often, if I didn’t have to worry about screwing up in some fashion.

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  • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look at the price of Xbox series X SSD expansion vs PS5 and see if that’s what you really want. $150 for 1TB with Xbox or 2TB for the same price or less for PS5? 1TB NVMe is well under $100 right now.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This. Components would be overpriced and proprietary. Nobody wants that.

      Building and upgrading a computer really isn’t that difficult. All the parts only fit in one spot. Getting compatible parts can be tricky if you don’t know what you’re looking for…but this problem could strike this idea, too, because there would certainly need to be different generation mainboards whenever CPU sockets or chipsets or memory speed or really anything else on the mainboard comes around.

      So such a solution would likely lead to less choice and more proprietary vendor-locked garbage. Just now solely on the hardware side.

      But wait…what games are compatible with this system? What games will run well?

      This is something Valve has done really well…they buily a benchmark system. This is the problem that’s been plagueing PC, imo. AAA games get built for bleeding edge tech, necessitating upgrades…while the steamdeck sets a bar that developers have to be playable on in order to tap that entire market.

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• richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For $1000 I prefer to buy a real PC with a x64 processor

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I get the sentiment, but the steam machine will have an x64 processor…

    The VR headset won’t, but the PC will…

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bought a fancy desktop PC recently so I’m not in the market. Otherwise I would consider it, but only if the desktop environment was usable for general computing. I believe it is, but I’m not sure if its version of Linux would be best for like software development.

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  • vin@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s got KDE

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  • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Best? Depending on what you do, probably not. That being said I have a friend with whom I code from time to time, and he uses the desktop mode for that. He uses nix packages to setup his development environments and seems happy with it.

    This is more work than I’d personally like (I am lazy) but it does not sound so bad.

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• jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would pay 700 for the 2TB bundled with the new controller.

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  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d pay that much as I need a non-windows PC for the grandkids to play when they are over.

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  • Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Get ready to pay $200-$300 more than that.

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That would just mean I’m not getting it then.

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• cdnwaffleiron@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean I have a pretty decent laptop i can plug that into my TV with out needing steam to provide gaming hardware…

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• ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not going to happen

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