Steam Machine ➹

As someone who’s been living quite happily for with a Ryzen machine running Bazzite streaming games to our Apple TV, iPads and a Logitech handheld for over a year now, I found this quite interesting.

It doesn’t seem like their custom APU is that much better than the Ryzen Stryx Halo series, though (the 8060S iGPU seems substantially beefier), so it will be interesting to compare pricing (and availability) with mainstream mini-PCs.

I do love that they seem to be devoting nearly three quarters of the volume to a heat sink, though–that means they’re focused on making it as quiet as possible, which has been the main challenge for us (that Steam PC lives in our closet, plugged into our 2.5GbE LAN, because fan noise was just too distracting).

P.S.: I am not that excited about their VR headset, though. Foveated rendering is par for the course these days, and yes, it is quite interesting that they’ve merged Intel emulation into the ARM version of Proton, but the hardware proposition seems a tad off given that VR gaming has not exactly taken off in the mainstream.