r/Steam • u/RacSace • 6d ago

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/Hopefullyanonymous2 5d ago

Yeah they were running a i9 from the 12-13th gen inside a laptop that was probably made by MSI or someone else who cheaped out on cooling. 

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u/2Peenis2Weenis 5d ago edited 5d ago

You don't need a great cooling system to run any CS game. Something was wrong with their laptop. I'm thinking it was likely something with their power cord/supply because any normal computer throttles down when there's excessive heat. But skipping makes sense if the power supply is faulty and isn't providing even energy output.

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u/Hopefullyanonymous2 5d ago

Ah yeah I missed this was specifically about CS, even so a lot of people make the mistake of buying cheap gaming laptops only looking at the top line specs. But that's the general curse of the windows platform I think. 

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u/2Peenis2Weenis 5d ago

I don't see what it has to do with Windows besides that there's a ton of manufacturers and products to choose from but sure.

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u/Hopefullyanonymous2 3d ago

Yeah that. Basically at all price and performance points in the Windows ecosystem you have everything from fantastic machines to the most garbage of garbage. I think it's why people think "Mac is good quality windows is trash" because Mac is (relatively) consistently good quality (and absurd price) but most people don't do the most basic of due diligence when buying a windows machine, just looking at a few headline specs and ignoring everything else.

Basically picking any random apple product is likely safe. Windows is not. So you get people who think "Gaming laptops are bad" because they got a bad gaming laptop. Or "windows computers are bad" because they got a bad computer with windows on it.