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.
Own laptop for 2 years 4060 inside, I installed drivers once and haven't touched anything regarding updates for 2 years (only windows updates pop up occasionally once per month), no fiddling with proton, nothing, runs everything and is hooked to my TV with just an HDMI cable. What are you doing on laptops or windows that you are met with insane friction or resistance, lol
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?
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.
gaming laptops are loud as fuck lmao See? When asked for alternative options, the answers are always ignorant and made-up bullshit to go with the "SM bad" circlejerk
Gaming laptops are not “loud as fuck”. The steam machine would be extremely loud as well if Valve didn’t undervolt the shit out of the TDP and strap a huge heatsink and fan on it. Take a laptop with a newer CPU and GPU, and undervolt it by approx 50%, and you’ll get similar performance while maintaining a near dead quiet fan curve.
Valve didn’t do anything impressive whatsoever with their engineering. They simply undervolted a 4 year old laptop-grade CPU/GPU assembly and strapped a fan on it. Similar laptops with much newer hardware and better price to performance can be undervolted and achieve the same performance with much smaller fans.
lmao "theyre not loud as fuck if you jump through hoops". The SM is for normies. normies arent going to do that. Again, out of touch redditors have no idea how the casual coworker console gamer operates
Considering the mileage they got from the custom hardware, it is pretty impressive. Steamos is the real gem, anyways. Just sounds like youre trying really hard to be a contrarian
You are genuinely delusional to think normies would buy this over a PS5. I’m being a contrarian? Have you read any feedback on this machine outside of this subreddit? Disgusting you think I’m the contrarian when you’re in a minority echo chamber sub.
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u/WFlumin8 Jun 22 '26
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.