Wow, I got waitlisted and thought because the price wasn’t so hot, that I’d get an opportunity to buy relatively soon. Maybe not. Good for steam, not so much for me :)
Good for the future of Steam hardware.
I got one and put windows 11 on it. 😈
I assume to play those games that do not run on Linux. Its sad, but the only way to play them is to install the malware Windows. If that was your plan all along, why did you even bothered to buy a Steam Machine?
Which makes me wonder if it has hardware support for secure boot/tpm which some games demand now. I assume so because it’s mostly standard hardware, but you never know…
I bought it to help host windows updates on the network. Set it and forget it.
So you don’t want to game on it and its just to distribute your Windows updates on your local network? Didn’t even know this was possible (if it is), sorry if I misunderstand that. Why is a Steam Machine the best option for this?
I feel like if there was an alignment chart for Steam Machine users, you’d fall under Chaotic Good.
I’m gonna triple boot mine when I get it, SteamOS (1TB), Arch Linux (512GB), and Windows 11 (512GB). I plan to game mostly on SteamOS but as a mini PC it will probably take the place of my travel setup and so I want access to Arch (my daily driver OS on my main PCs) and Windows (mainly for development testing of cross-platform apps but also maybe Fortnite, it’s the one game my friends play that doesn’t support Linux).
I gotta ask some questions:
- does everything work the way it would on SteamOS?
- what about drivers?
- did you test gaming performance?
Valve has released drivers, so should be fine
Note, they make an assumption which cannot be derived by data: 65% adoption of the base configuration, 35% adoption of the high-tier configuration. While it makes sense on paper, we don’t know how many units VALVE even produced and produces of both. I remember VALVE saying they were surprised how many of the high tier models of Steam Deck were sold back when it launched. Also the enthusiasts and early adopters probably would like to buy the higher model. I can see that VALVE started with a 50/50 distribution, and based on demand shifts AND availability of SSD towards one. All around its still a well made and educated guess of the numbers, based on the little data we have.
The adoption rate is pretty meaningless at the moment considering their queue system just put people into whatever queues they randomized into. I signed up for all 4 mainly wanting a 2TB unit but ended up in the 512GB queue instead. I’ve ordered a 2TB NVMe and an extra 16GB RAM stick so when I get it the first thing I’m doing is installing the upgrades.
I plan on buying one soon, love the small form factor.
I am not unless it comes in a barebones kit like my old Intel nuk when bf 3 or 4 was new.
It’s crazy what branding can do to sell useless cubes with less gaming ability than a thinkpad
I think my Intel nuk was 700 dollars after I bought all the parts for it l, it was primairly for battlefield 4, and minecraft, and it ran worse than it did on the ps3.
Maybe with inflation you can say its similar price to performance of steam machine. But there has definately always been idiots like me who like form factor.
I’m still not getting one unless its barebones for ~550 USD, but I’m the type of person who wants one.
