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The Steam Machine won’t be super well received specifically because of how expensive RAM and other components have gotten
It will quickly sell out despite being like $1500.
I would like to see a barebones option for like 500-600 but I doubt that will happen.
What would barebones be exactly?
barebones means youre on your own to procure ram and storage (though theyd pay for gpu ram) it gives value to people who already have the ram/atorage in hand and price the devices minus the ram/storage cost as if it were before memory prices skyrocketed (minus gpu ram) as the cost of the rest of the components wouldnt have had the same price hike
No GPU, storage or RAM.
I don't think that would work, it has a custom GPU. I would take a no or low storage version to save some money, I some extra SSDs laying around. But RAM prices are insane right now and I bet Valve can get a better deal than I can.
Not sure what you expect them to do?
Not much in the article
There were previous windows based benchmarks for the supposed steam machine, now the same benchmarks are using SteamOS (and are the same)