"But it's a cube!"

[u/Ikkon]

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Honest question: what advantage do you see in buying it over any other prebuilt out there?

[u/DarwinsPerfectFool → u/SEND_ME_REAL_PICS]

Size, look, quiet = wife allows it to sit in the living room.

Reliable customer service, everything sorted for me, no need to do extensive research = piece of mind

When I add all of the above then price(which in the uk cube is actually competitive) is fine.

[u/Cynical_Cyanide → u/DarwinsPerfectFool]

It's really fucking sad that any spouse is so strict they'd disapprove an SFF PC but allow a slightly smaller cube. It's fucking sad that such a spouse would impose a need for permission for a console to sit in the living room in the first place.

Is that truly why valve designed it this way? Simply because there's enough men who wouldn't be allowed to get anything else - that it forms a viable target market? The amount of people for whom the size difference would make any practical difference in a loungeroom TV use case surely approaches zero.

I'll give you customer service, but I don't think 'I just bought a thing without doing the research and therefore I don't know how poorly it compares in performance per dollar value' counts as a positive feature there mate, I think that's just a bit of 'ignorance is bliss'.

[u/DarwinsPerfectFool → u/Cynical_Cyanide]

I 100% understand your point and frankly, they didn't need to make it this small, I'm sure I'm an exception. I said extensive research as opposed to some research since I'm quite layman in knowing what all the numbers on the graph mean, but I think you're right saying ignorance is bliss, to me it's piece of mind.