Steam Machine Teardown

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Holy mother of God, what is that?
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A PC in a box...
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dandymcgee wrote:Holy mother of God, what is that?
Valve is trying to enter the console market without really having a console. It sounds like they're planning to have a variety of "consoles" called Steam Machines that come with Steam OS installed. If you want to, you can also just install Steam OS on a PC. It's just a fork of Debian.

It seems like Valve might be doing for consoles what Android did for phones.
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