Correct. They’re not even selling you a physical machine at that price. They’re just allegedly selling you their place in the preorder lottery for the opportunity to buy one.
I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly be that desperate.
I mean, sure. I have tons of rare knives, too. But a PC is a commodity item; it’s easily susbtituted with any other which is really the whole point of the architecture to begin with.
I think the Steam Machine is neat. I’m still not paying $3000 for one.
While Valve only officially supports 3 devices, it is possible to install its image on any PC (or just run Steam on Linux). But quite a few Steam users don’t realise that.
Also, Valve only officially supports Ubuntu LTS desktop (Gnome). And their own OS of course. Yes, despite having the Steam runtime. The only thing this means is that support agents will say “but did you try installing Ubuntu?”.
what??? I thought it’s not even for sale yet?
Correct. They’re not even selling you a physical machine at that price. They’re just allegedly selling you their place in the preorder lottery for the opportunity to buy one.
I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly be that desperate.
I should be shocked, but I’m not… Some people go to great lengths to get pokemon cards.
I mean, sure. I have tons of rare knives, too. But a PC is a commodity item; it’s easily susbtituted with any other which is really the whole point of the architecture to begin with.
I think the Steam Machine is neat. I’m still not paying $3000 for one.
Neither would I, but if there is money to be scalped.
While Valve only officially supports 3 devices, it is possible to install its image on any PC (or just run Steam on Linux). But quite a few Steam users don’t realise that.
Also, Valve only officially supports Ubuntu LTS desktop (Gnome). And their own OS of course. Yes, despite having the Steam runtime. The only thing this means is that support agents will say “but did you try installing Ubuntu?”.
I guess that means steam support doesn’t end up being general Linux support.
pokemon refuses to do anything about scalping they are just halfassing it. the best is to increase the pull rate of rares, preventing them to sell it.