Project lead says its "mostly for fun" but "my heart is poured in this thing."

While I think something like this makes sense, the pricing seems off. For $600 you can build a PC with a desktop GPU. If you want to make it easy to set up, you could just use an off the shelf mini-PC and preinstall everything so a non-technical user can get started without any hassle. I really hope we’ll see more Steam machine like devices in the future.

  • DiplomjodlerOPEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    The more expensive one uses a mobile GPU. Using a desktop GPU would make for a much more powerful machine. And as far as the cheaper model is concerned, you could get a much more powerful off the shelf device for that money. So you’re basically just paying for the snazzy case. Which is fine of course, but I think they could have done better.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•3 months ago

      So you’re basically just paying for the snazzy case. Which is fine of course, but I think they could have done better.

      Yeah.

      I want to buy this sort of thing to support the overall vibe and product line, but $600.00 goes a really long way on Etsy or EBay for custom cases.

      Edit: I am in the market for a desktop running something as close as possible to SteamOS, so I do love where this is heading. I’ll keep an eye on it!

    • @ampersandrewEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      Based on their web page, I think what you’re paying for is not having to learn how to configure this stuff.