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Valve's Steam Machines Will Officially Launch In November
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The Steam Machine does look like a nice console. It is too bad that the controllers still cost $50 like other controllers, and are not a more affordable price like $30-40.
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most likely anything you want, but they should all come with Steam OS.alakazam said:
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I think the Steam Machine is just based off of a regular gaming PC, so it most likely can run Windows, Linux, UNIX, and the bundled Steam OS.alakazam said:
It is also possible to build a Steam OS by building a Gaming PC, and installing Steam OS onto the PC's hard drive.
I most likely build my own Steam OS machine if I plan to get one because building your own Gaming PC is cheaper, and I won't get ripped off by the PC brands like Dell, HP, etc which sometimes use low quality power supplies, motherboards, hard drives and RAM in their computers to save money...
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Well manufactuers do make different PCs, both low end (Cheap parts) and high end (quailty parts).alakazam said:
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Manufacturers sometimes make poor choices by picking cheaper parts to save money, but not knowing that the cheaper parts maybe lower quality than more expensive alternative, or they got tricked into buying lower quality parts thinking they are getting high quality parts for a low price.alakazam said:
The reason some people buy Apple computers is because Apple uses higher quality more expensive parts compared to a generic PC maker like Dell, but Apple computer cost more which some people are more willing to pay for to get a higher quality computer which may last longer.
Back in the past, Dells, eMachines, and HP came with 200 Watt power supplies made by power supply companies like Bestec instead of higher quality more expensive power supply brands like a 400 Watt Cooler Master power supply. The Bestec power supply were more likely to fail compared to better power supply brands like Cooler Master because the Bestec power supply were made of poorer quality components like capacitors, and circuit board, and did not have as good cooling as a good power supply brand like Cooler Master.
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I can contest that the emachines PC had poor cooling.
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I can contest that HP had pretty bad cooling. A family owned a laptop which had to have the motherboard replace because of heat damage from poor running cooling fans. I also have a HP desktop where the PC case fan stop spinning, and needed to be fixed. The power supply fan, and CPU fan was also not very good at cooling the CPU, and power supply.
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At least with emachines my PC shut down before any heat damage could happen.froggyboy604 said:
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I think desktop computers are generally less likely to have heat damage because the desktop computer has more space for air to move around compared to laptops.Demon_Skeith said:
Laptops also have the fan spin slower to save battery power, and make it less noisy.
I think the reason for heat damage in laptops is because the shut down temperature is set too high, so overtime the laptop begins to fail because of too much heat damage, and not shutting down until the laptop gets super hot.