Thats about what i’ve been saying… 200 dollars more, and you get a vastly superior product over the steam machine…Which seeing as the steam machine is a luxury good, and not a budget concious/performance per dollar build… I’m perfectly okay with suggestion spending an extra 200 dollars for something markedly superior.
It feels so needlessly aggressive. Valve openly stated that there are alternatives to the Steam Machine, and they aren’t trying to own the market. Calling your prebuilt the “Steamroller” is kind of a dickhead move. That’s like Del Taco coming out with a deep friend taco shell and calling it “Fuck your Chalupa, bitch.”
ITT: People who have no idea how marketing and advertising work.
That’s not really how I read it. Clearly they are leveraging vale products, (steam os) so include steam in the name. They probably want this name to evoke strength and power, so what’s something with steam in the name that is powerful? A steamroller.
I don’t think it is meant to roll steam!
They specifically advertise it as an “upgradable alternative to the Steam Machine”; with that in mind, assuming the name isn’t intended to evoke comparisons to Steam Machine is kind of ridiculous, no?
I’m getting some white knighty wiffs from this outrage over someone daring to compete with valve.
I’m not sure I’d be able to order a “fuck your chalupa, bitch” with a straight face, but I’ll try.
They like it more when you giggle and order two
Eh, I see your point, but it feels pretty tongue-in-cheek to me. Steamroller is just a cool name that implies the thing is a workhorse.
Or, theres only so many ways you can make a punny name on Steam OS.
But of course that doesnt allow for righteous indignity.
Remember literally any PC can run steam and Linux. Steam machine is still just hardware.
The Steam Machine also still has the advantage of HDMI CEC. Since none of the GPU manufacturers seem to want to bother with even on cards with HDMI ports.
And unlike Nintendo switch, you can play games you bought 15 years ago… and use other stores or emulation
1300 and only 16gb of ram and a GPU on par with a RTX 3060 / RX 6650 . Brutal.
Meanwhile you can walk into microcenter and pick up a 7500x3d with a 5060 for $999
5060 aint fast either, but it’s way faster than a 7600. $300 will let you upgrade easily to 32GB of ram, or you could sell the 5060 (they seem to be about 300-320 for completed fleabay listings) and take the saved $300 and buy a 9070xt or something which are $630 at MC. 4k gaming for $1300. PSU is 650W and should work fine.
Im probably going to have to die with my 3060ti
I’m babying my 3090 like its the last GPU on earth. Undervolted, TDP way down, clockspeed capped, fans RUNNING.
It will never see 420W again.
9070xt will run circles around it for $630 or so.
There’s certainly CPU options out there for high fps gaming on ddr4 rigs, I just feel bad for the guys still on ddr3 who can’t eat the extra ~400 needed for a proper rig nowadays.
Yeah. X3D 5000-series will outrun many DDR5 CPUs in games.
Not that it’s a bad thing, but did anyone ever offer something like Bazzite before?
OEMs were waiting for SteamOS because it shifts the OS support to Valve instead of DIY, but I wonder if anyone tried before SteamOS was ready.
Funny how people are like “look at what steam does for Linux” and not “look at what Linux did for steam”. Steam is not good. Sure they provide a nice game launcher and storefront, but it’s a dirty capitalist business with shitty practices and kid gambling schemes
Two things cam be true.
yeah, check out of great linux support was for videogames aside from quake mods before proton
Bruz this is the real history that the steam machine release let loose.
Respect valve for it.
Yknow, other than the 16GB RAM (reasonable given the situation), this aint that bad, for similar specs (Ryzen 5 7600, RX 6750 XT), I paid 1100€ at most two years ago
Of course, the rest of the components also matter, as well as the VRAM difference, but could be worse anyhow
7500x3d, 5060, similar specs other wise for 1k here at MC. I don’t think 1300 is a good deal.
Kinda weird that it has such similar specs, I would’ve expected they’d want to do something more differentiated
Don’t give Zucky your buckies
Wrong META theses are completely diffrent people
Not owned by Meta. This company actually had a legal dispute with Meta when they rebranded from Facebook: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/3983498/facebook-meta-name-trademark-battle/
It’s counterproductive to keep the name. How many consumers (like me) are going to see Meta and know anything about it? A very small number.
If I had a business called Trump Motorcycles, I would rename regardless of the history.
Why should I change my name? He’s the one who sucks.
I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people!?!
You vant sleek small deevice for xhome livink room yuz? Van vid lots of kustom kvalitee ov layf featurz? Ve have Giant Generic Komputer! It even kome vid SAME operatink sistem!
Kome down to META PEESEE! Ve are not affillyated vid Meester Suckerberk.
You might be having a stroke. I know that I am now.
Do you want a sleek small device for home living room use? One with lots of custom quality of life features? We have a Giant Generic Computer! It even comes with the SAME operating system!
Come on down to META PC! We are not affiliated with Mr Zuckerberg
ER visit avoided
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