This Dremor guy just hates everything that isn’t a PC.

It’s baffling to me how he’s commenting about it without knowing a sliver about the purpose of the product, or how it’s built.

And I’m a PC guy too. I’d never buy a steam machine, but compared to our usual consoles, the SM is a breath of consumer-friendly fresh air.

Also, releasing SteamOS is a fucking goated move by Valve. One that Sony or Microsoft would have never made with their consoles.

fun fact there’s a standard bumper height that all cars have to respect exactly for this reason, AND such that cars always collide bumper to bumper, not bumper to hood, or bumper to windshield

GUESS WHAT FUCKING VEHICLE CLASS IS EXEMPT FROM THAT FUCKING GUESS

also guess what EVEN FUCKING SEMITRUCKS ARENT EXEMPT FROM THAT IN EUROPE. SEMI TRUCKS HAVE TO HAVE A CERTAIN HEIGHT ON THEIR BUMPER TO MATCH CARS, WHILE AMERICAN SUV’S DON’T

I’m sorry but this is fucking infuriating to me. I gotta log off now bye

I can’t do my nails while driving my manual I’ll tell you what

Especially now that I’ve broken my shifter linkage and now I only have 3rd and 4th lol

350 isn’t nearly enough.

Yea you get a single spike in power draw and that PC crashes. No way that shitty PSU can handle peak power draw if both CPU and GPU kick in at once

It’s really fucking sad that in making this thing repairable, and relatively modifiable, people now expect everything else a PC has and compare it to a PC unjustly.

Precisely what I described…except instead of my 2 examples, it’s the versatily of it that knocks it up a weight bracket where it can’t compete.

what they said doesn’t change what the thing is

Them comparing it to a PC is an endorsement and a marketing tactic to promote the usual good aspects of a PC of their new hardware

You can’t tell me you actually believe that thing to be more a PC than a console when it comes to the use case…

You are seeing it as a PC. It’s not. You have to see it for what it actually is: a console. You compare this to other consoles, not to a PC.

It’s really fucking sad that in making this thing repairable, and relatively modifiable, people now expect everything else a PC has and compare it to a PC unjustly.

It’s not a prebuilt either. If it were, it would have a sticker on the CPU IHS, the power cable wouldn’t be plugged in internally, and the PSU would catch on fire on the 69th boot.

But let’s see anyway:

• repairability
• freedom of modification
• “lifetime” support in the form of security updates, if I remember right; that older steam console still receives updates like 9 years later
• shared library of games, as opposed to a locked down ecosystem like the PS5 or Xbox S
• when it dies you’ve got yourself a linux server because again, it’s not locked down
• all parts are replaceable, clearly labeled
• you can easily upgrade RAM and storage, and they aren’t that weird rare form factor some prebuilts use, it’s just an LPDDR stick I think
• it’s pretty damn quiet
• it’s tiny as hell; in a living room this really matters
• Valve support is known to be top notch
• no online pay subscription
• an open source arch-based OS that you can know for a fact is not spying on you?

But what exactly are the points in buying a PS5, for example?

• having to pay to play online?
• having a dead box after it becomes unsupported?
• getting a shit controller that breaks if your little brother breaths on it wrong and that you can’t fix because it’s a POS?
• being locked into an ecosystem forever?
• have 0 privacy and need to agree to 10 billion TOS’s every time you do anything? That POS definitely records ALL the data it can about you. I think Steam does too but I think the level of scumminess is not the same.

All just so your games run a little better?

If you don’t like it don’t buy it.

If you have a PC you’re not the target audience in the first place.

Investors really are dumber demographic than MAGA.

Hey don’t slander my investor bros. We put our money in a passive index fund just so we don’t lose to inflation. We dgaf as long as inflation doesn’t beat our savings.

It’s the stock trader morons that you really want.

Looks inside…

• dogshit PSU
• dogshit mobo
• dogshit case with airflow as bad as a cardboard box, light years away from the SM
• it’s the 9060 XT 8GB version, same vram as the steam machine

If I bothered to look at other specs like pcie lanes, usb versions, repairability, noise, I bet my arse I’d be disappointed.

Lazyness? You’re not avoiding 11 because you’re lazy, you’re avoiding it because you know what’s best for you

I feel like we’re not the market though.

Compared to a console, this thing, in my eyes, is amazing, and I think it will do really well with people that usually would buy a console.

The price ain’t great, but at least no consoles released right at the same time as it, I guess?

I think it will still sell well.

Edit: that is if they care about the repairability and shared library of steam games and no pay to play online (do consoles still do that shit?). I guess it’s also just a PC in the end so it probably has even more uses compared to a PS5 or Xbox S.

Lol this thing will never die

Gmail - > tuta mail

Also you use way too much proton. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

thanks it’s a bit weird to install but I’ll get it done, I always wanted one that works after 5ftladder stopped working

Ohh that’s neat!

Damn the verge now just quotes GN? They may as well just link their video without writing anything, lol. They added nothing to this article.

Not that I can read much of it because of the paywall.

No, no damn way

Very different = not even close

Maybe i need to rethink my grasp on the concept of money

Yes

Yea dawg we have known for the last decade :-))