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by smcg 4 hours ago
The Steam Machine was $250 less before all of the price increases from hardware buyouts. Go complain to Big Tech.

You can install Steam on almost any Linux device. The Steam Machine is great for those who want a portable console-like device. Have you ever tried to build and maintain a shuttle PC yourself? It's obnoxious. This makes the goal of high quality portable gaming much easier.
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retired 4 hours ago
> Have you ever tried to build and maintain a shuttle PC yourself? It's obnoxious.

The benefit of a SFF PC you made yourself it that it doesn’t use proprietary hardware like the Steam Machine, is easily repaired and easily upgraded.

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drdexebtjl 30 minutes ago
This is very true. I had a Ryzen Mini PC up until a couple of months ago, when it broke. Low quality VRMs, needed board repair.

Support says I need custom molds to reapply the liquid metal thermal compound, or it would 100% leak. Regular thermal compound just isn’t good enough. It was true. I could send it to China and they would fix it for free, but it would take 60 days and I would have to pay tariffs.

I just cut my losses and harvested the RAM and SSD for something more dependable.

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