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Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. (arstechnica.com)
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The title is a bit misleading, as the article lists diverging analysts' opinions, ranging from Valve willing to sell at a loss or low margins, to high prices due to RAM and SSD price volatility.

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[–] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

I'm not in the market for the GabeCube but if I were, I'd find a price point of $500-$600 attractive, given it's mostly just laptop tier hardware. I would prefer it over the current gen of consoles, although I don't know if there's gonna be the same level of optimisations for games on this as there is on consoles (most likely not really). It'll be a ripper emulation box, though.

Upgradability would've been nice, too. Soldered in RAM is ok for a hand-held device but for this? Nah mate....

Edit: The RAM isn't soldered, it uses standard SODIMMs.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    I think the RAM just uses laptop sticks, so it is upgradable edit: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/hands-on-with-steam-machine-valves-new-pcconsole-hybrid

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Oh that's cool, didn't see that. I have no idea why Valve didn't mention that in their reveal, that's a huge advantage over consoles.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (1 child)

    There's plenty of games today that use more than 16GB of system RAM on their highest settings and that's only gonna become more common in the future... Besides, with this being literally a Linux PC, there's more ways it could make use of the extra RAM than just games.

    I don't know what you're on about, mate.

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