• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      26 days ago

      I don’t see that being the case, it’s relatively low end silicon, with meh levels of RAM and very poor levels of VRAM.

      Seems to me like they’re targeting a lower price point, which I think is a good idea if they want to take market share from Microsoft.

      • adr1an@programming.devEnglish
        41·
        25 days ago

        Yeah, I was very surprised to see the only upgrade is a generous storage from 512 GiB to 2 TiB… I would rather build my own PC, spend a little extra, cover other needs I have (zfs pool for videos), and get a good GPU that I can always replace for a newer one in a few years… But of course, that’s just me. That new GPU could easily cost as much as the Steam Machine itself, hehe. Of course, it would be way more powerful…

          • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            25 days ago

            I stopped building my own PCs over a decade ago because I was barely getting the parts at the same rate they would’ve come in a pre-built, ram was always hard to get, good deals “sold out” so quickly, and if a part goes bad it’s easier to take it to a warranty repair than it is for me to fight with the vendors myself.

            My main machines recently have been low power laptops, my steam deck, and my phone, using GeForce now has allowed me to play most of my games on shit hardware, and my 10 year old games run just fine (mostly) on my 5 year old laptop.

      • kurcatovium@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        25 days ago

        Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for lower end system, something I could by for my kids. But given the price of other consoles, I’m a bit nervous about the final price, hence I mentally prepare myself for 1k USD so I can be (hopefully) pleasantly surprised.