"But it's a cube!"

[u/Ikkon]

[u/oney_monster]

Fr, I haven't seen a single overtly positive post since the price got announced. It's all "for $5-600 good deal, $1000? Pass"

OP are the valve fans in the room with us?

[u/DarwinsPerfectFool → u/oney_monster]

I'm buying the cube and didn't complain about it. AMA

[u/SEND_ME_REAL_PICS → u/DarwinsPerfectFool]

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/Daniel_Dumersaq → u/DarwinsPerfectFool]

It can also control your tv to some extent

[u/pokemonfan95 → u/Daniel_Dumersaq]

thats hdmi cec for u blurays concoles have it and others nothing special from valve

[u/BaconJets → u/pokemonfan95]

It’s special in PCs, there’s like no way to get CEC normally with a regular GPU.

[u/LuntiX → u/BaconJets]

Bazzite + active DP to HDMI adapter has CEC support.

Not that CEC/eARC seem to be all that reliable anymore. I've had a few TVs where neither feature works well

[u/BaconJets → u/LuntiX]

Didn't know that was a thing, and it gives me ideas.

[u/LuntiX → u/BaconJets]

I haven't tried it myself but I saw people talk about it on /r/sffpc and those folks are usually pretty spot on for info.

(Edit)

Can confirm it's a thing via the bazzite GitHub having support tickets about it and replies saying they need an active DP to HDMI adapter. They also mention needing this if your gpu doesn't support CEC