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

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I have a desktop, but would buy it for the bespoke compact hardware to fit in the TV console. The dedicated antennas are a clear sell as well.

Right now I Steam Link via Shield, but I need wired or a better router to do any low latency play.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I really would like to upgrade to a steam cube as my current PC is about 15 years old just with upgraded RAM, storage, and graphics but i also only play games that came out over a decade ago too

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days 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.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] cdnwaffleiron@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

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

[+] richardwallass@sh.itjust.works -7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 days ago

Not going to happen

[+] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world -21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They got fucked over the past few years while developing it and rising costs. But this thing is shittier then a 5 year old console.

They should have just accepted it and sold a decent box at $800.

And advertising it as 4k60? Straight up deceitful. Might as well call it 4k240 cause it runs cs1.6.

AND IT COMES OUT NEXT YEAR 🤣

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[+] JustKeepStretching@lemmy.world -26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

Oh come on. If they sell an 8gb of ram machine that is gimped from 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

If this thing isn't cheaper than a PS5, then I don't understand who the hell it's for.

The more I read about this, the more blatantly clear it is that it's going to face plant.

I just cannot believe steam, the PC game company, is releasing a non portable console that has less VRAM than the fucking switch 2

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