You can pre-order the first official Steam Machines starting today
In case you haven't been closely following the Steam Machine saga, Valve first unveiled its vision of living room domination -- high-powered PCs running a special Steam-flavored version of Linux -- in September 2013. Anyone can shove a PC into a sleek box and proclaim its chops as a seriously console competitor (and we've seen a few already), but really, it's about time these things emerged from the vapor. Up for pre-release grabs right now are rigs from Alienware and CyberPower, which start at $449 and $499 respectively. That base model Alienware Steam Machine will pack a dual-core Intel Core i3-4130 chips, along with 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive and a (mostly unspecified) NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics card with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. Meanwhile, you'll spot one of Intel's Core i3-4160 chips and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 lurking away in CyberPower's poorly named Syber box, not to mention the same (relatively paltry) 4GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive.
Normally you'd have to wait until November 10 to pick all these goodies up, but some immediate pre-order action might mean you'll get your Steam Machine a full month ahead of everyone else.
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SakiPosted:
Headlong Why not just buy and build a regular PC? I don't like the ideas of these systems. People will think they're just knock off consoles.
I'm assuming this is for the console guys who want to get into PC gaming but aren't inclined enough to learn the basics and make their own build (or are too scared to). It's a lot easier to just go to Walmart or Best Buy and pick one of these up off a shelf vs looking up parts online that go together and get the best bang for your buck when you don't know anything about PCs. It'd be like me not knowing anything about how cars work and saying "I really like cars, I'm gonna go online and buy parts to make it go fast!", it's not gonna happen. You need to realize most people don't have extensive PC knowledge.
SkittlePosted:
Want to see how many of these will be pre-ordered in the first week, probably gonna be ridiculously high!
-Dylan1Posted:
I won't be buying one of these but wonder if it will be any good, looking forward to see how it will be like.
KentsfieldPosted:
Why not just buy and build a regular PC? I don't like the ideas of these systems. People will think they're just knock off consoles.
KurumuPosted:
Anyone who buys one of these things is an idiot plain and simple. Please do not support the cause of idiocy.
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