FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 5 hours ago:
Hardware wise, the Series X beats this with ease. It’s not even close.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 5 hours ago:
The streaming codec matters because it (265) is incredibly better and more efficient, which is what you want for streaming.
- Comment on Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop 7 hours ago:
As long as you use AMD, as Intel and Nvidia are not supported yet.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 9 hours ago:
Those are probably the 3 least important factors in a gaming PC lol. There’s also nothing special about its thermals, as if that even matters. Any gaming pc worth anything will be water cooled with multiple fans and good airflow anyway.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 17 hours ago:
You’d be much better off just using moonlight from your pc to any other device, but seems like you want to buy it no matter the pointlessness haha. I’ve been there, but not at this price.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 18 hours ago:
It’s not a cheap office machine though lol. At this price it’s a very expensive office machine with terrible specs.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
And at the price that the 2TB model is, you’d be an idiot to buy it.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
The performance is pretty bad when compared to the PS5 Pro, which is much cheaper.
The performance is terrible compared to the PS5 Pro. The performance is pretty bad when compared to the base PS5, which is half the price.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
It can absolutely be upgraded
Not in any way that matters. It has a non-upgradeable SoC. You can’t just take out the CPU or GPU and replace them.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
I just want a streaming box that I can play light games on.
If that’s what you want, get an apple tv or shield tv lol.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
If I don’t game on it, I might swap the Linux version and use it for work.
But…why? There are much better small form factor PCs for significantly cheaper than this.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
I like gaming on my PC, but I much prefer playing certain games on the big screen in the living room
These things aren’t mutually exclusive. My PC is hooked up to my 75" tv in the games room.
With the specs of this steam machine, the last thing you would want to do is play it on a big screen lol. It will look atrocious. To even hit barely playable framerates you have to run at basically ultra low settings at 720p and use FSR3 (vomits) to get it back up to 1440p.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
But I know multiple people who already have a high end computer who would also like this for their living room.
Why? High end computers can also go in the living room. You can also simply stream your high end computer to other devices if you don’t want to do that, or put HDMI cables in the walls.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
This is for people who don’t have a nice and powerful desktop.
You can build a significantly more powerful desktop that is also upgradable for less than this. This price renders it absolutely useless and no one should buy it.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
$750 is still about $250 too expensive for what it is and the performance it has.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
I tried telling people it will be over $1000 on all the forums and discussion sites I’m on, and no-one would believe me lol.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 19 hours ago:
I’m surprised people think $1,100 is expensive for a gaming PC, even outside the crazy memory market now.
$1100 isn’t expensive for a gaming PC. It is, however, expensive for this gaming PC because it’s so incredibly underpowered and non upgradeable that it may as well not even be called a gaming PC. This thing struggles hard to hit playable framerates in current gen games. Even at 720p they’re struggling to hit 30fps. For “next gen” games it’s basically going to just be left in the dark, won’t even be able to play them. The memory bandwidth is terrible, the 8GB VRAM is terrible, the CPU is terrible, and the GPU is literally scraping the bottom of the barrel.
At this exorbitant price it’s DOA. It’ll no doubt sell out because of the steam fangirls buying anything valve throws at them, but they’ll be producing so few of this thing that selling out will mean nothing. They should have cancelled this as soon as they couldn’t launch it for $500.
- Comment on Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping "this summer", Valve now rolling out verification systems 2 weeks ago:
Hard to say how it will go
It really isn’t. This thing needed to be cheap if it was going to gain any traction. It needed to undercut everything comparable on the market, significantly. Valve needed to aggressively subsidize it since they make money hand over fist from every game that it can play. Instead it’s going to be even worse than the last time they released steam machines, only this time it will be much more damaging to them since they’re making it themselves.
- Comment on Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping "this summer", Valve now rolling out verification systems 2 weeks ago:
Sure the PC Master Race types won’t want this, but I think that’s a very small group of people.
The number of people that want a low powered, non-upgradeable, outdated by about 10 years gaming PC that will struggle to play anything other than 2D indies at 4K60, and also can’t play any of the big AAA games like GTA6, COD, Apex, Battlefield, etc at all is infinitely smaller than the PC Master Race types lol.
- Comment on Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping "this summer", Valve now rolling out verification systems 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what your point is. I’m saying that even if it was $400, like many people are/were expecting it to be, it’s still severely underpowered. At the actual realistic price point of well over $1000, it’s DOA because it’s less powerful than even a PS5, which is closer to $400 than $1000.
Speculative/rumored prices are similar to what you could get for a similar spec mini PC.
The difference being that those mini-PCs will be able to play games like GTA6, Fortnite, PUBG, COD, Apex, etc, while the Steam Machine cannot, and you can also upgrade those mini PCs, unlike the Steam Machine. The SOC in it dooms it.
- Comment on Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping "this summer", Valve now rolling out verification systems 2 weeks ago:
Handhelds and consoles are different though. Consoles/PCs don’t have screens or controllers built in, or a battery. Most of the cost of handhelds is in making them handheld.
- Comment on Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping "this summer", Valve now rolling out verification systems 2 weeks ago:
No, talking about the steam machine. There are still people that think it’s going to release at like $400-$500 lol. It’s going to be over $1k for PS4 level power.
- Comment on Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping "this summer", Valve now rolling out verification systems 2 weeks ago:
The Steam Machine is DOA. It’s severely underpowered even at like a USD$399 price, so when it’s > USD$1000 it’s an absolute joke.
- Comment on Apple Faces £3 Billion UK Trial Over iCloud Lock-In Claims 5 weeks ago:
You can only install an app approved by Apple as they control who are allowed into the ecosystem in the first place.
And all the cloud backup providers have apps on the App Store already. I personally have backups going to 3 separate ones - and I don’t use Apple’s first party service lol.
- Comment on Apple Faces £3 Billion UK Trial Over iCloud Lock-In Claims 1 month ago:
Are you dumb? I’m telling you that you can already easily back up your phone data to other services.
- Comment on Apple Faces £3 Billion UK Trial Over iCloud Lock-In Claims 1 month ago:
This lawsuit is going nowhere. You can literally sign up to any cloud backup provider and install their app on your iPhone.
- Comment on EU Is Rolling Out an Online Age Verification App That Could Become the Global Blueprint 2 months ago:
Isn’t this the same one that has been found to be about as secure as a wet paper bag within hours of release? You can simply edit a text file in the apps data to remove the pin and face unlock lol
- Comment on Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore 2 months ago:
If your point of buying it was to install non Amazon apps, you’re why Amazon are making this change.
Fire sticks are primarily for Amazon services.
- Comment on Amazon is ending support for older Kindles and Kindle Fires 2 months ago:
You might want to have a quick think about what you just said because it’s definitely wrong lol. Books, like all physical media, have an end of life. Books especially are easily destroyed or lost.
- Comment on EFF is Leaving Twitter 2 months ago:
It costs nothing to post on X, and Musk has done more for user rights than Twitter ever did - in fact Twitter actively suppressed user rights at a massive scale, and was basically a government propaganda tool. The EFFs statement reads like the usual anti-musk far left virtue signalling. There’s literally zero reason to stop posting on X if their goals are what they say they are.