I can’t see the size listed anywhere, this is just a mini itx junk box.
On the bottom of the page it says preorder: 1300 dollars
i didnt know that Meta started selling Linux PCS /j
I have to ask, are META PCs affiliated in any way with Zuckerberg?
No. This company actually had a legal dispute with Meta when they rebranded from Facebook: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/3983498/facebook-meta-name-trademark-battle/
Yeah, unfortunate naming if you ask me. “Meta” is just tainted by the zuck now.
I’m on the reservation list for a Steam Machine and personally have no regrets, but I’m so happy these exist. I don’t think it has to be a big competition, but between not appealing to a mass audience and have limited stock, the Steam Machine may have inadvertently ushered in a prebuilt Linux PC revolution, and that’s a wonderful thing.
Can we finally say it? Is the year of the Linux desktop finally upon us??
nah, it’s more like the year of the linux game console, if anything.
Nor the Steam Machine nor this Steamroller are consoles tho
The Steam Machine ain’t a typical PC either, at least that’s not the intention on how it is to be used. It’s kinda a PC-console hybrid.
*Neither
Funny how people are like “look at what steam does for Linux” and not “look at what Linux did for steam”. Steam is not good. Sure they provide a nice game launcher and storefront, but it’s a dirty capitalist business with shitty practices and kid gambling schemes
look at what steam does for Linux" and not "look at what Linux did for steam
Both are true lowk
kid gambling schemes
looks at the age tag yeah…i don’t think so. You are no better tha parents that say “GTA IS VIOLENT!! SHUT IT DOWN, MY KIDS MAY GET HURT!!”
Two things cam be true.
yeah, check out of great linux support was for videogames aside from quake mods before proton
Thats about what i’ve been saying… 200 dollars more, and you get a vastly superior product over the steam machine…Which seeing as the steam machine is a luxury good, and not a budget concious/performance per dollar build… I’m perfectly okay with suggestion spending an extra 200 dollars for something markedly superior.
Most of us can get a vastly superior product than the Steam Machine for the cost of a Steam Machine.
Pretty sure Valve thinks the same. They’d rather their ‘consoles’ establish a performance floor than a ceiling. They don’t want to make hardware - they don’t want to make an OS, it’s just what’s required to compete with Microsoft (who’s actively threatening them since they announced the Windows Store for Windows 8 and Xbox game pass at the time)
and that performance floor is heavily reliant on FSR.
Which is bad for everyone. We’re already seeing games that need FSR even at 1080p because of shit optimization. We don’t need this normalized and set as a standard.
It’s still more powerful than 70% of computers running Steam, so what’s your point?
People really need to learn to read more than the first sentence
We’re already seeing games that need FSR even at 1080p because of shit optimization. We don’t need this normalized and set as a standard.
Not that it’s a bad thing, but did anyone ever offer something like Bazzite before?
OEMs were waiting for SteamOS because it shifts the OS support to Valve instead of DIY, but I wonder if anyone tried before SteamOS was ready.
Bazzite itself has an OS image specifically for handled PCs, and even desktop Bazzite has an option to boot into game mode basically “Big Picture mode”
They’ve had this for a while
I think he means if OEMs actually sold hardware with Bazzite on it.
Kinda weird that it has such similar specs, I would’ve expected they’d want to do something more differentiated
The size lets them use the specs to their full potential which differentiates it in terms of performance
Yknow, other than the 16GB RAM (reasonable given the situation), this aint that bad, for similar specs (Ryzen 5 7600, RX 6750 XT), I paid 1100€ at most two years ago
Of course, the rest of the components also matter, as well as the VRAM difference, but could be worse anyhow
I think 16gb of ram is fine, especially on linux
7500x3d, 5060, similar specs other wise for 1k here at MC. I don’t think 1300 is a good deal.
1300 and only 16gb of ram and a GPU on par with a RTX 3060 / RX 6650 . Brutal.
Meanwhile you can walk into microcenter and pick up a 7500x3d with a 5060 for $999
5060 aint fast either, but it’s way faster than a 7600. $300 will let you upgrade easily to 32GB of ram, or you could sell the 5060 (they seem to be about 300-320 for completed fleabay listings) and take the saved $300 and buy a 9070xt or something which are $630 at MC. 4k gaming for $1300. PSU is 650W and should work fine.
Im probably going to have to die with my 3060ti
9070xt will run circles around it for $630 or so.
There’s certainly CPU options out there for high fps gaming on ddr4 rigs, I just feel bad for the guys still on ddr3 who can’t eat the extra ~400 needed for a proper rig nowadays.
Yeah. X3D 5000-series will outrun many DDR5 CPUs in games.
I’m babying my 3090 like its the last GPU on earth. Undervolted, TDP way down, clockspeed capped, fans RUNNING.
Bruz this is the real history that the steam machine release let loose.
Respect valve for it.
It feels so needlessly aggressive. Valve openly stated that there are alternatives to the Steam Machine, and they aren’t trying to own the market. Calling your prebuilt the “Steamroller” is kind of a dickhead move. That’s like Del Taco coming out with a deep friend taco shell and calling it “Fuck your Chalupa, bitch.”
That’s like Del Taco coming out with a deep friend taco shell and calling it “Fuck your Chalupa, bitch.”
I would go to Del Taco right this moment if this were real.
What about making a spherical system and calling it the Steamcube?
I think it would get massive amounts of free advertising. Not sure if it would sell because I wouldn’t want it.
Or, theres only so many ways you can make a punny name on Steam OS.
But of course that doesnt allow for righteous indignity.
Remember literally any PC can run steam and Linux. Steam machine is still just hardware.
The Steam Machine also still has the advantage of HDMI CEC. Since none of the GPU manufacturers seem to want to bother with even on cards with HDMI ports.
Eh, I see your point, but it feels pretty tongue-in-cheek to me. Steamroller is just a cool name that implies the thing is a workhorse.
I’m not sure I’d be able to order a “fuck your chalupa, bitch” with a straight face, but I’ll try.
They like it more when you giggle and order two
That’s not really how I read it. Clearly they are leveraging vale products, (steam is) so include steam in the name. They probably want this name to evoke strength and power, so what’s something with steam in the name that is powerful? A steamroller.
I don’t think it is meant to roll steam!
They specifically advertise it as an “upgradable alternative to the Steam Machine”; with that in mind, assuming the name isn’t intended to evoke comparisons to Steam Machine is kind of ridiculous, no?
I’m getting some white knighty wiffs from this outrage over someone daring to compete with valve.
Outrage? We’re just discussing it, mate…
And unlike Nintendo switch, you can play games you bought 15 years ago… and use other stores or emulation
Don’t worry, I’m waiting to pay $40 of an old game Nintendo will release on the NSO. That k you Nintendo for making me pay for emulated old game again.
Don’t give Zucky your buckies
Not owned by Meta. This company actually had a legal dispute with Meta when they rebranded from Facebook: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/3983498/facebook-meta-name-trademark-battle/
A legal dispute that is evidenced by the confusion between the two already in this thread. Certainly worth fighting.
It’s counterproductive to keep the name. How many consumers (like me) are going to see Meta and know anything about it? A very small number.
If I had a business called Trump Motorcycles, I would rename regardless of the history.
Why should I change my name? He’s the one who sucks.
I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people!?!
Wrong META theses are completely diffrent people
You vant sleek small deevice for xhome livink room yuz? Van vid lots of kustom kvalitee ov layf featurz? Ve have Giant Generic Komputer! It even kome vid SAME operatink sistem!
Kome down to META PEESEE! Ve are not affillyated vid Meester Suckerberk.
You might be having a stroke. I know that I am now.
o7
Do you want a sleek small device for home living room use? One with lots of custom quality of life features? We have a Giant Generic Computer! It even comes with the SAME operating system!
Come on down to META PC! We are not affiliated with Mr Zuckerberg
It is not eMachine, it is METAPC, a generic machine which is STEAM MACHINE. But no, not generic because we called it STEAMROLLER.
ROAR!
ER visit avoided
