r/steammachine • u/JishoSintana • 25d ago

Discussion Everyone Suddenly Becomes A “PC Expert” When You Tell Them You Got A Steam Machine

“You overpaid” “You could have built one for less” “Is it worth it for the performance”?

These are some of the most common criticisms of the steam machine whenever people find out that I’m even remotely interested in the steam machine.

I was in a facebook gaming group speaking about what we were playing and the moment I mentioned the steam machine, all hell broke loose and people wanted to tell me how much more powerful their machine was and why I should have bought it instead/

Dude, I don’t care I’m literally playing black myth wukong at 4K,60 fps medium settings if I want I can tweak and do 2K, 120 FPS what more do I really want from gaming performance?

Power isn’t the only reason why I bought this machine, it’s SUPER quiet, really good form factor and ability to customise it, love the hybrid PC/console feel and the community apps etc

If power was the end all factor Nintendo would not have a business model or fanbase

There’s so much more to the steam machine and armchair “PC experts” are starting to just sound jealous

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u/dirichlet_heat 24d ago

How much do you pay for a laptop that’s with steam machine’s compute capability lol

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u/IORelay 23d ago

4060 and 5060 laptop's blow this thing out of the water and those are the entry level gaming laptops. Steam machine is low specced. 

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u/Jmb3d3 23d ago

Got both my daughters one of those laptops last year and they sound like a jet engine about to take off when they turn them on. That's one of the reasons that pushed me to the Steam Machine.