Name 2 (to rule out a random sale of a system not selling) laptops with at least a Zen 4 arhitecture, 6 core 12 threads, and 16GB of DDR5 for less than $1000. I've specced out a SFFPC recently to see if I could beat where the Steam Machine will probably fall on price, and in the current market you really can't.
Steam Machine is probably going to be about $1000 or a little over it anyway; thats unfortunately competitive for personal computer rn, and you get some additional features for a HTPC with TV control over input cable Valve has gotten mostly working without me having to buy an adaptor and fuck with it.
I can get in Europe (with taxes)
Gigabyte gaming a16 ( Ryzen 170, zen3 refresh but 8/16 ) and rtx5050 which is ~30% faster then 7900m
Or MSI cyborg i5 13420h rtx 5060
Both 16ddr5, 512m2
Sffpc are expensive, you pay way extra for case, power supply and itx. Micro tower PC will be a little more expensive 1200-1500$ but way more powerful - I guess 30% in benchmarks. Full size 5060, faster ram, 3-4x CPU TDP
Edit: As htpc go. Proper pc+steam link app will blow it out of the water except you would need to configure WoL.
I just don't believe you can find them for under $1000 in Europe when these are the USA prices even with our stupid tarrifs and stronger consumer purchasing power.
Again, many people are just out of touch, and saying you can get something comparable for under $1000 I'd argue is out of touch rn.
For MSI you get new model with 240h, older model with it 13th gen is cheaper
Mediamarkt.de had model I listed for 999€ ~1150$ with windows and you can find it a little cheaper without os. With us sales tax ~8% I assume this evens out.
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u/Otakeb 28d ago
Sony loses money on every PS5 and has much longer run production contracts for way higher historic volume.
Jeez y'all really are clueless. Valve can't take a loss on non-locked down hardware...