Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999
Dremor@lemmy.world 5 days agoThe SM could end up having hardware as shitty as this one, you never know. Especially since they’ve shown with the first deck iteration they could release hardware that can cook itself.
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Have you seen the GN teardown? Every bit of volume that isn’t already occupied by something is dedicated to cooling. The heat sink runs essentially edge to edge, so no issues with airflow either.
87Six@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
This Dremor guy just hates everything that isn’t a PC.
It’s baffling to me how he’s commenting about it without knowing a sliver about the purpose of the product, or how it’s built.
And I’m a PC guy too. I’d never buy a steam machine, but compared to our usual consoles, the SM is a breath of consumer-friendly fresh air.
Also, releasing SteamOS is a fucking goated move by Valve. One that Sony or Microsoft would have never made with their consoles.
Dremor@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Not yet, but I’ll look at it tonight.
The Steam Machine is probably better integrated, andthus smaller, thank to it being custom made, I just posted this one because I found it interesting to see third parties trying to do their own.
Personally I think I’ll go with the Steam Machine, but I’d have liked for it to be available as a barebone version without memery and ssd, as I already have some compatible one laying around in my component stash.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, Valve gets high marks for engineering for sure.