Project lead says its “mostly for fun” but “my heart is poured in this thing.”…

While I think something like this makes sense, the pricing seems off. For $600 you can build a PC with a desktop GPU. If you want to make it easy to set up, you could just use an off the shelf mini-PC and preinstall everything so a non-technical user can get started without any hassle. I really hope we’ll see more Steam machine like devices in the future.

  • Mesophar@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    That kind of seems like that is exactly what these are. The specs are still sort of terrible, though, but pricing isn’t too far off for what is advertised in them.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      61·
      4 months ago

      The more expensive one uses a mobile GPU. Using a desktop GPU would make for a much more powerful machine. And as far as the cheaper model is concerned, you could get a much more powerful off the shelf device for that money. So you’re basically just paying for the snazzy case. Which is fine of course, but I think they could have done better.