You can pre-order the first official Steam Machines starting today

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Look, there's literally no shortage of things you can slot into your home theater system for a spot of streaming media or some melt-into-your-couch gaming. If you want to be able to recline in your living room and comfortably sneer at people who play games on consoles, though, you can pre-order an official Steam Machine -- and the accoutrements to make it shine -- starting today.

In case you haven't been closely following the Steam Machine saga, Valve first unveiled its vision of living room domination -- high-powered PCs running a special Steam-flavored version of Linux -- in September 2013. Anyone can shove a PC into a sleek box and proclaim its chops as a seriously console competitor (and we've seen a few already), but really, it's about time these things emerged from the vapor. Up for pre-release grabs right now are rigs from Alienware and CyberPower, which start at $449 and $499 respectively. That base model Alienware Steam Machine will pack a dual-core Intel Core i3-4130 chips, along with 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive and a (mostly unspecified) NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics card with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. Meanwhile, you'll spot one of Intel's Core i3-4160 chips and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 lurking away in CyberPower's poorly named Syber box, not to mention the same (relatively paltry) 4GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive.

Normally you'd have to wait until November 10 to pick all these goodies up, but some immediate pre-order action might mean you'll get your Steam Machine a full month ahead of everyone else.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/04/steam-machine-orders-start-today/

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Mickers
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Ethics im probably not going to purchase this until i know they are a rock solid product.

Just sit back and wait for the reviews to come in.


Of course they're a solid product. It's basically a mini-computer.


Not nearly as powerful as most custom built PC's though.


Indeed. No where near. Probably quite ahead compared to consoles, though.

ModerzFMPosted:

Zensei Does anyone know if you can put in your own components? I'd like to keep upgrading mine over the years.


You can't. Confirmed by Valve.

MickersPosted:

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Ethics im probably not going to purchase this until i know they are a rock solid product.

Just sit back and wait for the reviews to come in.


Of course they're a solid product. It's basically a mini-computer.


Not nearly as powerful as most custom built PC's though.

AdamuPosted:

I didn't even know these were coming out but they do look pretty cool so I might invest in one and hopefully the price will drop a little after a while it has been out.

THQPosted:

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Ethics im probably not going to purchase this until i know they are a rock solid product.

Just sit back and wait for the reviews to come in.


Of course they're a solid product. It's basically a mini-computer.
but it's also a shitty prebuilt one. All it is, is flashy and overpriced. I highly doubt this could run games at highest settings. But I don't understand the whole idea. But I figured it being steam it would be worth getting. After seeing specs, no. I just decided to build my own computer

NotePosted:

Ethics im probably not going to purchase this until i know they are a rock solid product.

Just sit back and wait for the reviews to come in.


Of course they're a solid product. It's basically a mini-computer.

HumanPosted:

So how do these work? Do they use controllers, like an xbox then? And you buy games from steam on them and play with controller?

GeekwadPosted:

Does anyone know if you can put in your own components? I'd like to keep upgrading mine over the years.

MarkzehhPosted:

Sounds pretty decent for people to break into pc gaming, however i see most people wanting to get a proper custom build after using this for decent amount of time

DeluxeHazardPosted:

Pool This does look pretty cool i might buy this... if i dont like xbone


The one thing that is definitely better than it compared to the Xbox One is the controller. That thing looks so cool.


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