Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame
cloudwolf@lemmy.world 3 days agoUnless the price is ridiculously low, corporations are not buying thousands of anything without a support contract. Next day repairs/exchnages and priority support are a must when dealing with hardware at scale, and Valve is not going to offer that.
Dell/Lenovo/HP are already more expensive than consumer-grade hardware from Best Buy unless you are a very large customer. Companies pay for reliability, warranty and support.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
It happened to the Playstation, though not for use as workstations usually.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
Grimpen@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Those PlayStation supercomputers were wild. I don’t think it’s analogous to the various bits of Steam hardware coming out though, since Valve sells directly through Steam. You can’t order anything by the pallet.
The other thing to consider is that the PS3 was used for clustered computing primarily because of the Cell processor. I have no recollection of why the cell processor performed better on certain types of problems. PS3 wasn’t being used for Excel spreadsheets, it was used for niche academic use and that one Air Force supercomputer. The Steam hardware though uses pretty standard hardware, AMD processor and Radeon graphics card.
Considering the added friction of buying through Steam, i doubt it will have same draw.