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Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

It's harder to stuff the power of a steam deck into such a small package.

The new Steam Machine is very compact for a gaming PC of its caliber. That took some real engineering to find the right combination of component size, TDP, thermals and noise for such a small box. There's obviously no screen and battery but otherwise it's similar design work as on the Deck.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Makes sense, I haven't seen dimensions, but the space for pure compute has definitely increased greatly.

It is still very small, but the deck (in comparison) is quite thin which I assume made it much harder to engineer. I'm sure a lot of knowledge has transferred over though and i'm not gonna act like i'd know anyways lol

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

If you look at a teardown of the Machine, it's almost all heatsink inside. The remaining space isn't really a lot bigger than a Deck. But the components run much higher wattage (not constrained by battery) and put out a lot more heat, hence the need for the sink.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Oh wow, I didn't know they had teardowns yet, that's kinda funny hehe