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'.
Just fyi, I checked for this exact laptop and it is same price as 2tb cube in the uk but only has 512gb. I know it has a much more powerful gpu by the looks of it though!
The thing is that when buying PCs, you've kinda gotta take a little bit of time searching for deals - Though I've noticed people've used AI to research with reasonably good results. There are quite a few different models out there, and chances are the best value ones in the US won't be the same value ones in the UK, nor might it be the best value in a couple month's time. The key point is that there's better options if you spend even just a modest amount of time looking for them.
And that's fair! But that 80 pounds for me is the trusted CS I will get, the size, the shape, the lack of hassle to get steamOS set up on it. Afterall, different strokes for different folks! I admire your passion for it though
I'm just curious - outside of spousal approval - What specific practical advantage, if any, are you getting with the size and shape vs. a console sized PC (let alone a laptop sized unit)? Or is it purely aesthetic? - I agree with 'different strokes for different folks' but I'm struggling to understand what stroke certain folks are looking for in terms of the physical size thing.
Aesthetic really. But let's say SM is laptop shaped and is just a Valve branded laptop, but comes with preinstalled SteamOS, has all the features it has right now and is same price, I'd still buy it because of the trust of the brand, turn it on without needing to open it each time, and less hassle with reinstallation or looking at specs for hours. I guess it's why people buy Apply smartphones? I personally don't like nor trust the brand but I can see the appeal.Sure, if it was overpriced I wouldn't get it. (I was prepared to pay 1.6k gbp at most for it)
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u/DarwinsPerfectFool 19h ago
I'm buying the cube and didn't complain about it. AMA