{"id":107498,"date":"2026-06-22T13:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=b2db08353df9424bb3364b2146e9dc81"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:09:51","slug":"steam-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=107498","title":{"rendered":"Steam Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/hardware\/steammachine\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Of course people are whining about the price.  A year ago that $1050 price would be bad, right now adding up a Ryzen 7 7600 + RX 7600 8GB + 16GB of DDR5 + 512GB of SSD + any AM5 motherboard comes up over $900, and that ignores case and PSU and such.  \n\nProbably fairer to compare to some of the MiniPCs from Minisforum and Beelink and whatnot with a broadly-comparable APU, but the approximately-a-RX7600 is like 3x the GPU of the Radeon 890M out of the best of those, and by the time you have comparable RAM and SSD a Ryzen AI 9 APU Mini PC will also be over $1k. \n\nI certainly don't need one, but it's not an un-compelling offering, especially considering the apparent\/likely build quality and support.  I'm certainly optimistic about the directions it will continue to distort the ecosystem in.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=48632884\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=107498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}