French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 - VideoCardz.com
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French retailer mocks Steam Mcahine by annoucing "Stim Machine" with Radeon RX 9060 XT at €999 Source: LDLC

It is a bigger, don’t have the Steam Controller dongle integrated, and you need to manually install SteamOS on it.

But you get a machine that can be upgraded way more easily than the Steam Machine, and a better GPU from the start.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    20 hours ago

    Cool, that looks like a beefy system for that price, glad to see options, but:

    • It doesn’t list sizes, mini ITX is usually significantly larger than the Steam Machine.
    • Are they shipping it with SteamOS and will they support it? The page seems to imply it’s coming bare and pointing you to a tutorial on how to install it yourself and marking that as a positive.
    • Will it have CEC? I see no mention of it anywhere.
    • Will it support low power standby and fast resume? Especially during games? I know that’s mostly a software thing, but are they making sure it’s supported here?
    • Can it be woken from that state with a controller?
    • Does it have an internal steam controller antenna?
    • Or a wifi one?
    • Or a Bluetooth one?

    Looks like a good build considering current pricing, but realistically it’s missing a bunch of the core features of the Steam Machine that seems to fly over people’s heads

    • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      16 hours ago

      Tech people love to forget the average level of tech literacy in the world.

      Every time Nintendo and Switch comes up on Lemmy you see the flood of haters who cant wrap their heads around the idea that parents will pay extra for their kids shit to “just work” and overpay for AAA Nintendo titles that are complete and have no microtransactions.

      The steam machine is for people who remember pc gaming fondly but cant be bothered building a rig or dealing with specs on prebuilts.