Definitely not less than half the price. The build I see linked in this thread comes in around $950 with as close to equivalent specs as possible. The machines people on YouTube were building when the specs were announced, before the RAM and SSD prices spiked, were coming in a little under $700 at the time.
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DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just like the Deck (after price increase) and the Controller. Great, but absurd at that price. Not necessarily blaming Valve, but the fact remains.
That much money for essentially a small PC with a Ryzen 5 5600 and a mini RTX 3060. Who would buy that? You can just build that yourself, for less than half the price.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I just checked my local marketplaces, and it is easily less than half the price. Of course, the parts are second hand, because they’re not even sold new anymore.
Alternatively, you can also build a PC smaller than the Steam Machine, running a Ryzen 7 8700G. It’ll be even cheaper, but also considerably weaker on the GPU side.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
“If you hunt stuff down, buy used, and get good deals, you can do it for cheaper.”
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think you’re making an honest comparison if you’re doing it with used parts. You can get lots of things cheaper used.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a fair point, but how else am I supposed to buy parts that are out of official distribution? It’s not my fault the Steam Machine is using ancient hardware.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Half the price? Nah, not with new parts. Not even close. GN did a spec equivalent comparison with atx parts and it was like 9xx. Not 1050, but definitely not half the price.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 day ago
True. I was counting used parts, because brand new ones aren’t even available, so their hypothetical prices are meaningless.