Insane this has taken them so long. Also surprisingly small storage. The base model *might* be able to hold two GTA 6s.
bb22k on
Seems like a somewhat week machine. Looks something like a Rx 7600 GPU?
If the price is good, it may sell some units
Mammoth-Key9162 on
The price is really going to be the sticking point for this thing, the specs are kinda mid.
But if they price it well, I can see it appealing to the ‘I want it to just work’ demographic.
greenshark911 on
I’m curious if cod or other online shooters will work with this. I miss playing those and the steam deck doesn’t have the anti cheat
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ExCap2 on
Edit: N305 seems to be Intel’s strongest N series chip. There’s quite a few mini-PCs on Amazon that have it for around $200-$300. It’d probably have no issue playing a lot of games on low settings with maxed out memory. 720p/1080p of course.
This is pretty much the way console is going too. Xbox will be a mini-PC that has can play both PC and console games. PlayStation and Nintendo will follow suit unless they stick to Cross buy where if you buy on Console or PC; you own the game on the other.
If you go on Amazon, there are a lot of nice little Mini-PCs. The ones with N150/N250 are pretty great. I can play WoW on graphics settings 1 on a HP 14 with the N150 purchased from Walmart for $179.00, I think it’s cheaper on Best Buy atm. You need secondary NVME usb storage since SSD is small, but it works. You can upgrade the memory on the HP 14 to 16GB max. The Intel N Series are pretty powerful for something so small.
All you’re going to need eventually is just a little mini-PC cube and a cellphone. Everything else is just accessories. Technology today is wild.
Getafix69 on
Looks like my Fire cube but yeah I imagine a lot more fun.
Lo_jak on
I see a lot of people talking down the specs of this but Valve have more data on PC gaming than anyone in the industry at this point. There’s no way they didnt use these specs without knowing what a vast majority of people use already and the type of games that they play.
ssongshu on
RX 7600 GPU and 8gb of ram is not promising at all unless the price is good. You’re going to be gaming at 4k with ultra performance FSR.
dudebro5000 on
This needs to be $500 or less, anything higher and it won’t be appealing to very many people.
21Shells on
Sounds like a great new computer for anyone dealing with the EoL of Windows 10, who dont want to keep giving Microsoft more money.
Whatever801 on
If it’s sub $700 it’s pretty compelling I think. What PC masterracers are missing I think is the living room plug-and-play convenience factor. I sit at my computer desk fixing broken shit on computers all day long, last thing I wanna do after work is sit at my computer desk fixing broken shit on a computer. Sure you can plug a PC into a tv but there’s that extra friction of needing mouse and keyboard to launch things and do updates and whatnot. That’s the main draw of consoles right? Just plug it in, veg on the couch, and it works. Hopefully here we’re getting the best of all worlds. Steam library, hardware target for devs, and hardware sold at a loss.
w3stwing on
I hope there is a version that will look like a companion cube
desolatecontrol on
Huh, steam dropping into the console wars when Xbox has practically given up was not on my bingo card.
Geldan on
I’d rather just get an Nvidia shield and stream my games.
Hanzo_the_sword on
Also known for underselling their products. Could be better than advertised.
TheValorous on
I’ve never been part of the bleeding edge tech crowd, so even if the machine is not able to run the most graphical crowd games at 4k 120fps yada yada, I’ll be content with 1080p at 60.
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But i just bought a steam deck ; ;
Insane this has taken them so long. Also surprisingly small storage. The base model *might* be able to hold two GTA 6s.
Seems like a somewhat week machine. Looks something like a Rx 7600 GPU?
If the price is good, it may sell some units
The price is really going to be the sticking point for this thing, the specs are kinda mid.
But if they price it well, I can see it appealing to the ‘I want it to just work’ demographic.
I’m curious if cod or other online shooters will work with this. I miss playing those and the steam deck doesn’t have the anti cheat
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Edit: N305 seems to be Intel’s strongest N series chip. There’s quite a few mini-PCs on Amazon that have it for around $200-$300. It’d probably have no issue playing a lot of games on low settings with maxed out memory. 720p/1080p of course.
This is pretty much the way console is going too. Xbox will be a mini-PC that has can play both PC and console games. PlayStation and Nintendo will follow suit unless they stick to Cross buy where if you buy on Console or PC; you own the game on the other.
If you go on Amazon, there are a lot of nice little Mini-PCs. The ones with N150/N250 are pretty great. I can play WoW on graphics settings 1 on a HP 14 with the N150 purchased from Walmart for $179.00, I think it’s cheaper on Best Buy atm. You need secondary NVME usb storage since SSD is small, but it works. You can upgrade the memory on the HP 14 to 16GB max. The Intel N Series are pretty powerful for something so small.
All you’re going to need eventually is just a little mini-PC cube and a cellphone. Everything else is just accessories. Technology today is wild.
Looks like my Fire cube but yeah I imagine a lot more fun.
I see a lot of people talking down the specs of this but Valve have more data on PC gaming than anyone in the industry at this point. There’s no way they didnt use these specs without knowing what a vast majority of people use already and the type of games that they play.
RX 7600 GPU and 8gb of ram is not promising at all unless the price is good. You’re going to be gaming at 4k with ultra performance FSR.
This needs to be $500 or less, anything higher and it won’t be appealing to very many people.
Sounds like a great new computer for anyone dealing with the EoL of Windows 10, who dont want to keep giving Microsoft more money.
If it’s sub $700 it’s pretty compelling I think. What PC masterracers are missing I think is the living room plug-and-play convenience factor. I sit at my computer desk fixing broken shit on computers all day long, last thing I wanna do after work is sit at my computer desk fixing broken shit on a computer. Sure you can plug a PC into a tv but there’s that extra friction of needing mouse and keyboard to launch things and do updates and whatnot. That’s the main draw of consoles right? Just plug it in, veg on the couch, and it works. Hopefully here we’re getting the best of all worlds. Steam library, hardware target for devs, and hardware sold at a loss.
I hope there is a version that will look like a companion cube
Huh, steam dropping into the console wars when Xbox has practically given up was not on my bingo card.
I’d rather just get an Nvidia shield and stream my games.
Also known for underselling their products. Could be better than advertised.
I’ve never been part of the bleeding edge tech crowd, so even if the machine is not able to run the most graphical crowd games at 4k 120fps yada yada, I’ll be content with 1080p at 60.