potustheplant comments on Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its "religious" refusal to "build a more closed system"

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[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I say "upgrade" but it's actually a repairability issue as well. If something breaks, getting a replacement part is not as easy as going to any pc store/amazon/newegg and getting what you need. You'll have to go through steam/ifixit and it will most likely be more expensive than the equivalent pc part. You also can't replace just the cpu, gpu or motherboard. If any of those breaks, you have to replace the whole thing.

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[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

We are not "normal" in this sense, I no longer build my own pc I go to my favourite local computer store and buy the parts and have them put it together, but I will never buy one that I did not choose the parts. Since I won't be buying one I didn't look at the warranty but would hope that it is at least 2 - 3 yrs (should be 5 but, yeah). Most people will simply send it off to steam and pay whatever the cost is. I was beating the hell out of my 3800 for 5 years (some VR games sent that cpu to the red line and stayed there for hours) and it is still a viable machine, owners just need to hope they don't get a dud cause I don't think these are off the shelf parts (cpu/gpu/mobo) so replacement will be difficult either way.

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[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 point 4 months ago

It doesn't matter if you build it yourself or not, it matters that whoever repairs it can swap only the part that failed. The steam machine has a lot of stuff on a single board (kinda like a laptop) and that sucks, from a repairability standpoint.

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