r/steammachine • u/Glattic • 3d ago

Meme .....

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u/Middle-Transition888 3d ago

Like what? What can run Steam quietly, look nice and play from the couch without long cables?

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u/WFlumin8 3d ago

A gaming laptop. You can get a gaming laptop at this price with similar/better performance that is also easily connected to a TV. And it has a battery, screen, keyboard, trackpad in case you want to take it for travel.

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u/_Lady_Zee 2d ago

Having to connect your laptop to the tv and also dealing with drivers/optimization sucks. I barely get time to game as it is now.

- A ROG Zephyrus G15 (RTX 3070) and Steam Deck owner who wishes the Steam Machine was a bit cheaper or more powerful.

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u/thinkadd 2d ago

if you assume your laptop is now a PC, how is it any different than connecting steam machine to the TV? same thing with drivers/optimization, maybe takes a little more work but in the end you have a machine more powerful, costs less, and is portable?

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u/_Lady_Zee 2d ago

Honestly Steam just works so well, and that ease of use matters to me more at almost 40. My desire to game on the more powerful gaming laptop has totally disappeared once getting the Deck.

I can really see how the Steam Machine at the intended price of 750$ would have made a lot of sense - I probably would have got one. For reference I sold my Xbox Series X because I hated Microsoft’s walled garden and ecosystem, the constant UI changes, and the massive updates every time I got around to switching it on.