Steam Machine reviews may be underway as two new Geekbench listings surface
1d 1h ago by lemmy.today/u/sanitation in pcmasterrace from www.notebookcheck.net
The Steam Machine won’t be super well received specifically because of how expensive RAM and other components have gotten
It will quickly sell out despite being like $1500.
I dream of an alternate timeline where the Steam Machine is $600 and sells close to PS5 units, people flock to it, companies are forced to release every game on Linux, anti-cheat is user-space only, and gaming & streaming hardware gets 1st class support. Then content creators want creative software, people donate to GIMP, Krista, Inkscape, etc. Canva releases official support, and it keeps on Rollin' n' Rollin'.
Gods that's a beautiful tech dream :)
Let's ban closed source firmware and drivers while we're at it.
And we were so close, until AI happened
And that branch only forked a couple years ago 🙃
It's not all bad. I just compiled ocarina of time on my Linux pc and ran it natively at 144fps using keyboard controls.
Well yeah, it will probably sell out fast, but I meant its price will probably be the main issue
I would like to see a barebones option for like 500-600 but I doubt that will happen.
It’s called the steam deck + dock and it costs $800 at least.
I've had a deck since the beginning and absolutely love it. Though I gave up docking it a long time ago. I find it struggles to run a lot of stuff at 1080p that it plays fine at 800p. 2D and older 3D games play fine docked but I just got out of the habit of even trying to push it past native resolution.
What would barebones be exactly?
barebones means youre on your own to procure ram and storage (though theyd pay for gpu ram) it gives value to people who already have the ram/atorage in hand and price the devices minus the ram/storage cost as if it were before memory prices skyrocketed (minus gpu ram) as the cost of the rest of the components wouldnt have had the same price hike
Just no ram and no storage.
No GPU, storage or RAM.
I don't think that would work, it has a custom GPU. I would take a no or low storage version to save some money, I some extra SSDs laying around. But RAM prices are insane right now and I bet Valve can get a better deal than I can.
Maybe they'll add in a sku with no ram or ssd to draw the line in the sand on what they actually wanted to sell for. That'd also allow customers to potentially recycle older parts like laptop dimms and older m.2 drives
Not sure what a sku is but I think I understand the rest of it and yeah that sounds like it’d be really good. If they just had ram ports as well so you can modify it n stuff. Maybe even scrap a gaming laptop for ram to add to the steam machine.
I’m confident they won’t pull a Nintendo and software lock the hardware meaning you can probably upgrade it if you have the means and knowhow
Not sure what you expect them to do?
They don't seem to expect them to do anything (besides release a device to mediocre reception). They're just stating their predictions.
Yep
Not much in the article
There were previous windows based benchmarks for the supposed steam machine, now the same benchmarks are using SteamOS (and are the same)