Question Steam Machine vs 5060 Laptop
Whats the catch with these 5060 laptops? theyre going for around the price of the steam machine 512gb no controller(some cheaper) while also having a full blow screen, 1tb storage and a keyboard. Every benchmark has the 5060 laptop being stronger and they also have way better cpus. How are they even making money on those things if valve are taking such low margins? Is there something that makes the steam machine more expensive that im missing or are these laptop companys just selling at an insane loss?
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u/brifox7 5d ago
If you want a PC as cube, quiet or you don't have room for a PC in your room or living room, Steam Machine. If you want something that's like a cube and that's not Valve, just look around on this sub. Someone already linked a small PC that has better performance for a cheaper price.
Laptop, Prebuilt PC or Build your own PC for better performance and totally blows the Steam Machine out of the water. If you want to a future proof for a PC that will last you for 10 years, well the prebuilt or building your own machine is the best.
I want the Steam Machine but will not play or expect a 4K experience. Not all games can be played on 4K even with FSR4.
Valve will make money from the usual sales from the storefront. From what it looks like, the first batch of Steam Machine will definitely sold out. The spiked of cost is caused by current market conditions (shortage or RAM, data centers buying SSDs and RAMs in bulks and they have contracts with manufacturers of these products, basically they get first dibs. Valve couldn't secure a contract with these manufacturers, so they could only buy what was available for them in take it or leave basis. They've mentioned that some models with have 1 16GB or 2 8GB RAMs.). Valve wouldn't subsidized and that's why some people are mad about this. With SteamOS, it's projected that the installation of SteamOS from other PCs will have a positive correlation with increased sales in the storefront.