Thoughts on the #SteamMachine … 1. It is too expensive; it could not be sold for less given today's component shortages … 2. … and the proven voracious appetites of "resellers" – if Valve chose to either lower the price or raise the spec-level, chances are: regular consumers would only be more likely to be scalped because Valve couldn't buy the parts in quantity to match higher demand! 3. That's 8GB of true-blooded GDDR6: not some low-powered "unified" nonsense. 4. Why are there four different models? Surely it would be more fair to just make *one* model, without a controller, pool all the prospective buyers together and let those who want more persistent storage or a Steam Controller source that elsewhere? 5. Why aren't Valve waving a big flag and pointing at the industry and owning the shortcomings, calling this Steam Machine a beta model, a terrible compromise, forced onto the market because the design is ready and there's really no reason not to release it for those who want it, but not representative of their vision or what's possible? Valve are dealing in insinuation and hints between the lines. Sure, those are blatant enough to know why this product is being released as-is, but I'd really like to see them stand up and own it and, importantly, to take the opportunity and be a voice, telling the world that the whole component crunch and RAM shortage is entirely a fabricated problem for the profit of some of the worst people on the planet. Valve: please call them out. Call out nVIDIA! Call out Microsoft. Even call out AMD because they're complicit, too. Call out every single developer using generative models to spew out slop. Just say it: this Steam Machine isn't what it should have been because the manufacturing of those chips that are training models and running inference for the purposes of spewing out slop simply proved more lucrative than manufacturing proper RAM and GPUs ("fp4 tensor ops" are useless nearly everywhere beyond "AI" workflows)