

I think you may be looking at it wrong. Its less of a “pc” in the traditional sense and more of a console that you can tinker with/repair. Thats more what demographic its trying to appeal to.
I dont disagree that its overpriced, but that’s all computer parts or PC’s right now. Its certainly not perfect, but I don’t think its a step backwards at all. I think having more options for gamers to game on their couch is a good thing.












Thats true of most products that companies make I think, but they made it to serve a certain segment of the market and I think given how excited people were to see something like this, doesnt seem like it was a bad idea.
And after watching the teardown, I don’t really see what you mean about reparability being bad. The video is even titled “Excellent Reparability: Steam Machine tear-down and Accessing RAM & SSD”. Seems to come apart just fine. You can replace a part if it breaks and put it back together.
I will say that proprietary parts aren’t great, I’d rather have a cpu, ram, and motherboard I can take out and replace individually but for what this is designed to be, that being, a “console”, I’d say its much better than a PlayStation or Xbox in terms of reparability. Definitely more akin to a laptop than a PC in my opinion. And certainly not perfect, but I’m glad that Valve gave it a try and gave more options for people to game on. Not only that, might even get more people on Linux if they’re shown a good experience.