They said it’s easily provable. That means they can easily provide proof 🤡

They’re saying it happens every time because of their digital fingerprint.

Cool, should be simple to get that proof then :)

Proof please :)

Strange when there are entire sites set up for people to post Amazon deals, and not once in the 10+ years they’ve all been going has this ever happened when people followed the deal through.

Definitely doesn’t. Easily testable and provable.

This is not true in general. Some sites could charge you more based on your fingerprinting, but very few do as it’s easily proven and would cause massive backlash.

Cool and all, but I’d prefer they worked on games and consoles that don’t already work amazingly well via emulation.

You won’t want more power than the PS5 in 5 years time either?

Your PS5 is more powerful than the steam machine. Don’t waste your money.

Buy any other prebuilt pc for around the same price and it will be better, and most importantly upgradable. A pc you can’t upgrade is just a console, and as a console the steam machine is about 5 years outdated already while charging an arm and a leg.

@MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone Im guessing you went back and looked at the reviews you thought proved your point and saw you were mistaken? 🤣

The steam machine does not run cyberpunk over 60fps at ultra settings lol.

Linux isn’t for people like that.

It’s got less performance than it should though. Why they chose to limit its power draw I have no idea.

You didn’t need to build your own pc to install Linux on a prebuilt pc either 🤣

And less performance.

You’ve been able to make a low powered Linux machine whenever you wanted to. The Steam machine didn’t change anything.

Is needing less power a plus when talking about a gaming pc? The steam machine uses less power than the competition because they’ve kneecapped the SoC with power draw limits, limiting performance.

In a bit confused by this comment. This computer is a better option than the steam machine.

Do you think that the Meta, as in Facebook meta, make this?

The funny thing is, I don’t believe it actually does lol

It doesn’t really matter how much profit they’re making on it, it’s a bad deal because every other comparable low end pc is upgradable whereas the steam machine isn’t.

There’s just no reason for a locked-hardware low-end device like the steam machine to exist. Why would anyone want a non-upgradable PC, when the reason people play on PC is for the upgradability?

The hardware is bad. It’s a power throttled bottom of the barrel GPU and CPU. It’s a 1080p30fps machine for anything other than indies, and for most AAA gaming it will need the atrocious FSR to even get to that.

It’s not upgradable either, so it’s not like you can just swap out the GPU or CPU for a better one later.

For a machine that’s targeting the living room, where most people who might consider buying this would be wanting to use it on a big 4K TV, they’ve made the worst possible performing machine for that use case.

I’m not sure how much of a console gamer you are, or how much you keep an eye on game prices, but almost every sale on steam for games that are on consoles happens on Xbox and PlayStation too. I know because I often have to choose between buying on Xbox or Steam when there’s a sale, and the Xbox version with play anywhere is the same price as the steam one so I usually buy the Xbox one.

The steam machine from valve is just a small form factor junk box.