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Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. (arstechnica.com)
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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.

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[โ€“] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Who couldn't access PC gaming before? Best Buy has always had a few "gamer PCs" on the shelf, with a lot of LED lighting and flashy parts for people who don't know any better. My brother in law is a car guy, does gaming on an Xbox. Got a little extra cash, so he bought one of these. Wondered why he wasn't getting good performance. He had his HDMI cord plugged into the motherboard โ€” he wasn't using the 5060 it came with at all! I moved the cable down and his performance shot up. He said he's since replaced it with a 5080. He gets 120FPS in Cyberpunk at 1440p with high settings and ray tracing on high.

He reached out to a friend of mine who does custom PC building and my friend helped him upgrade a few things. He's got 64GB of RAM, which he definitely doesn't need, but it's nice he's future proofing. I think his CPU is a 9800XD or XP or something like that. It's AMD. Nothing at all wrong with his setup. I'm just saying, a gearhead can get into PC gaming pretty easily with a prebuilt rig. Valve isn't inventing shit with the Steam cube thing. They might be making PC gaming a little more accessible to console gamers, but I think the limitations, the tweaking, will put people off.