Reposting here because the original comment at at https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/steam_hardware/eventcomments/688615158419884766?ctp=5#c686364528843166490 may not get noticed.

Whichever way you go with the new Steam Machine, pricing is going to be an issue. Here's a unique opportunity for you, Valve, to increase the value of this system, and hence make the price more palatable.

A wireless remote-access KVM dock.

Hear me out. People will want to put the Steam Machine underneath their TV in the living room. It's a PC. Offer them a dock to connect to their monitor, keyboard and mouse in the other room. Then you get two PCs for the price of one: one for TV gaming, and one for desktop work.

The new Steam Machine has the requisite radio hardware to power low-latency input (for the Steam Controller) and video out (for the Steam Frame). You can power on the Steam Machine from a Steam Controller. You have Steam Link hardware expertise. Regular desktop PCs can have these features, but it's a headache to set it up in a seamless, integrated way.

A dock can make use of the same setup, and make it seamless by default. When pressing the power button on the wirelessly-connected dock, the paired Steam Machine boots up in the other room, the locally connected monitor shows Desktop Mode and provides everything you need to get work done (or mindless doomscrolling, depending on user preference). Shutdown affects both the remote Steam Machine and the local dock.

Perhaps show a notification on both sides if more than one session is currently active, to avoid surprises in gaming performance when one person plays on the TV while the other one edits a video or builds some code through the dock setup in the other room.

In a few years, when you perhaps upgrade your Steam Machine again, you only have to get one new machine. Monitor plus wireless dock had no actual computer directly connected in the first place. Upgrade one system and get the second upgrade for free.

Now *that* is value.