this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025
129 points (90.1% liked)

Technology

76820 readers
1728 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
129
Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
74 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The title is a bit misleading, as the article lists diverging analysts' opinions, ranging from Valve willing to sell at a loss or low margins, to high prices due to RAM and SSD price volatility.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] melfie@lemy.lol 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Here’s a gaming laptop for $700 that I think is similarly powered, except it also has a screen, keyboard, a trackpad and a Windows 11 license that probably represent like $200 of that. I’ll probably pick up a SM if it’s around $500 for the base model, but otherwise, I’ll probably build something instead.

https://www.newegg.com/msi-thin-a15-15-6-geforce-rtx-4060-laptop-gpu-amd-ryzen-5-7535hs-16gb-memory-512-gb-nvme-ssd/p/N82E16834156873

[–] gsx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

FYI The Windows License is more like $20-$40. The OEM Version costs $40 retail and MSI has probably a better deal. That's how Microsoft got Windows on nearly every prebuilt PC since the mid 90ies.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I guess they are including the screen, the keyboard and the trackpad with the Windows license in those $200 estimates.

[–] gsx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh, yeah that would make sense. Thx