I was thinking more like $1500
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bunnyBoy@pawb.social 6 hours ago
Honestly surprised that they hit that price point with the way things are going. Still don’t need one so I won’t buy one, but about 1000 was what I was expecting
dan1101@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Good(?) news! You can spend almost that much for the 2TB with a controller.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Same for me. I was expecting like $1200 for the base model which nobody should pay that much for such middling specs.
But still $1k is way more than I’d pay for an HTPC. I’d much rather the steam link approach and use streaming to my already nice and powerful desktop. I guess this is a nice thing to point newbies who want a box that should “just work” and don’t already have something and don’t want to build.
Rooster326@programming.dev 5 hours ago
This is for people who don’t have a nice and powerful desktop.
They didn’t stop development of the link explicitly for people like you?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Obviously, no shit. I never meant to imply that this was targeted at me. But I know multiple people who already have a high end computer who would also like this for their living room.
If it was $600 like I’d originally hoped I’d be interested. I wasn’t going to get one day 1, but I’d have picked one up once they’re consistently in stock. But $1000 for mid specs is rough for anyone. Just like the steam controller, Valve has made another hyper niche device.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 hours ago
The price for everything went up. That “mix spec” PC you were going to build? That went up by the same amount, if not more by the time this is all over