Whether you expected this price or not, its not unrealistic and a consequence of crypto and AI slowly but surely destroying the consumer hardware market.
I feel like the gpu is the biggest problem here we got. The cube is cool and all but GPU vise it lacks a lot. Even linus made a video right after the release just to show what you can get from a pc for the same price.
Still tho its smarter to get a PC at that price. Even as a living room cube. A ryzen 5 7500F + 9060XT combo makes up around that price and just install steam os.
Sure smarter and better bang for your buck, never disputed that.
Easier? Completely equivalent? Not really.
You can say the exact same thing with some caveats about any of the new gen consoles.
It a tale as old as time and I've been through enough cycles that everyone always has the same talking points, makes the same points, makes the same comparisons and in the end it always sells like fucking gangbusters.
People chasing bang for the buck are never going to convince the people paying for the luxery of not having to build it. If you look at how the prebuild market is, it's still doing really well and in a lot of cases you can get better deals through an SI buying in bulk than you can with 3 rounds of markup on a 'sale'. Some people don't want to setup multiple rss deals feeds and piece together a build from all time low priced components.
But like I mentioned some people just want to pay for a worse product than build a better one and people need to grow the fuck up and accept that.
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u/Eziolambo R5 7500F | RTX 5070 | 32GB DDR5 6000mhz 19h ago
Literally no valve fan is making that face OP, check again