Windows charges different license fees depending on how powerful a device is. Gaming hardware will have a more expensive license fee than a lower power device.
Honestly when you have devices like the steam deck targeting $400 starting price, paying up to $100 for a windows key is pretty significant.
Well it looks like the price difference also comes with a bigger hard drive, so that helps soften that blow a bit. But TIL, I wasn’t aware of variable pricing based on device performance.
That can’t be the case, can it? $100 for windows, which realistically might actually run many games worse is wild lol.
That sounds pretty in line with licensing costs for windows
$499.99 SteamOS version with 16GB / 512GB, a $599.99 Windows version with 16GB / 1TB
Looks like you get an extra 500gb with the base windows version for some reason. IDK what the deal is with that?
Need more storage for the Windows bloat.
Need more storage because of Windows BLOAT!
Need more storage for windows bloat…
I’m thinking it’s for the Windows bloat… Gotta have more storage for it.
Windows doesn’t cost $100 for OEMs, it’s basically negligible in high volumes like Lenovo.
Windows charges different license fees depending on how powerful a device is. Gaming hardware will have a more expensive license fee than a lower power device.
Honestly when you have devices like the steam deck targeting $400 starting price, paying up to $100 for a windows key is pretty significant.
Well it looks like the price difference also comes with a bigger hard drive, so that helps soften that blow a bit. But TIL, I wasn’t aware of variable pricing based on device performance.