Why?

Just take any Gaming capable Laptop and put lateat 64bit Linux build on it. Distro such as Ubuntu or Mint perhaps

引用自 StudiodeKadent：

Any chance that Valve will make a laptop in the style of the GabeCube? Because honestly I'm tempted to defect to the SteamOS ecosystem in the future.

Maybe.
Gabe Cube is already based on mobile parts.
I think there is interest on the market for such product. Or even third party (Asus. Lenovo) laptops with pre-installed SteamOS.

They don't need to make a.Laptop, they just need to release a proper SteamOS Desktop Edition.

But again just install Linux and then Steam and enable Proton and BigPictureMode if you want the Steam TV interface

It's not the hardware that's any special about the Steam hardware, it's the operating system, but even that isn't extremely unique, it's just a custom variant of Arch Linux

CachyOS and Bazzite are good substitutes that you can get right now rather than sit and wait

引用自 r.linder：

CachyOS and Bazzite are good substitutes that you can get right now rather than sit and wait

I don't need anything immediate. I'm planning for what I'm going to do when I next refresh my gaming and computing hardware, which is scheduled for early 2027. I'm sorely tempted to divest from the Microsoft ecosystem even further, at least for gaming-and-day-to-day-computing (I have a specialist PC I use for audio work and that requires either Windows or Mac, so SteamOS isn't an option there).

And if Sony's games keep going multiplatform and coming to Steam, well, I can just centralize everything on Steam and drop PlayStation as well. Less devices, less bloat, more efficiency.

Literally just use any well maintained Linux distribution. Mint, CachyOS, and Bazzite are all popular choices for people new to Linux. Mint probably being the easier of the three to use.

Stream OS won’t be any better than those. Arguably, it might even be worse.

引用自 StudiodeKadent：

引用自 r.linder：

CachyOS and Bazzite are good substitutes that you can get right now rather than sit and wait

I don't need anything immediate. I'm planning for what I'm going to do when I next refresh my gaming and computing hardware, which is scheduled for early 2027. I'm sorely tempted to divest from the Microsoft ecosystem even further, at least for gaming-and-day-to-day-computing (I have a specialist PC I use for audio work and that requires either Windows or Mac, so SteamOS isn't an option there).

And if Sony's games keep going multiplatform and coming to Steam, well, I can just centralize everything on Steam and drop PlayStation as well. Less devices, less bloat, more efficiency.

WinBoat is a new project that aims to provide a more seamless and higher performance virtual machine for running Windows apps, worth looking into

引用自 Chaosolous：

Literally just use any well maintained Linux distribution. Mint, CachyOS, and Bazzite are all popular choices for people new to Linux. Mint probably being the easier of the three to use.

Stream OS won’t be any better than those. Arguably, it might even be worse.

They're working directly with Arch devs so it's not going to be worse

But what it contributes to the pipeline is what's valuable, not the distro itself

引用自 C1REX：

引用自 StudiodeKadent：

Any chance that Valve will make a laptop in the style of the GabeCube? Because honestly I'm tempted to defect to the SteamOS ecosystem in the future.

Maybe.
Gabe Cube is already based on mobile parts.
I think there is interest on the market for such product. Or even third party (Asus. Lenovo) laptops with pre-installed SteamOS.

Its not based on mobile parts. In what world does a 30w desktop CPU and a 110w desktop card mean mobile parts?

引用自 The_Abortionator：

引用自 C1REX：

Maybe.
Gabe Cube is already based on mobile parts.
I think there is interest on the market for such product. Or even third party (Asus. Lenovo) laptops with pre-installed SteamOS.

Its not based on mobile parts. In what world does a 30w desktop CPU and a 110w desktop card mean mobile parts?

Wasn't the first time AMD has done something like that, the 6500-XT was originally just a mobile GPU that was originally only going to be for laptops with Ryzen 6000 processors by their own admission, but decided to frankenstein it into a desktop GPU

The GPU in the Steam Machine might literally be a 7600M. A mobile GPU.

引用自 The_Abortionator：

引用自 C1REX：

Maybe.
Gabe Cube is already based on mobile parts.
I think there is interest on the market for such product. Or even third party (Asus. Lenovo) laptops with pre-installed SteamOS.

Its not based on mobile parts. In what world does a 30w desktop CPU and a 110w desktop card mean mobile parts?

They are semi custom mobile parts with custom, higher TDP, soldered to a mobile like motherboard with mobile type BIOS. Also with laptop RAM.
The GPU itself is close to identical to laptop Radeon 7600m

Basically mobile parts customised for a miniPC where battery life is not an issue.

引用自 C1REX：

引用自 The_Abortionator：

Its not based on mobile parts. In what world does a 30w desktop CPU and a 110w desktop card mean mobile parts?

They are semi custom mobile parts with custom, higher TDP, soldered to a mobile like motherboard with mobile type BIOS. Also with laptop RAM.
The GPU itself is close to identical to laptop Radeon 7600m

Basically mobile parts customised for a miniPC where battery life is not an issue.

A mini PC where cpu's gpu's are soldered (not discrete components) it's more smart phone than PC. Hell a lap top is more (or equally) modifiable.

EDIT there is also the little problem that most developers design and/or optimize tittles around console capabilities (and HWare) due to both existing agreements and adoption rate. The gabe cube is unlikely to have either, which means it will likely age faster than a console. I wouldn't make any bets it will be able to run many (if any) tittles by the end of the next gen.

This thing is basically ewaste in three years. Its Outdated mobile hardware that can barely compete with todays console hardware. As a wise man said its all about htre prise there are no bad products. So it better competes with price and performance with the consoles and pc competing this thing.

The majority might be better of with building a small form factor pcs themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iimfDdRBtGo
https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMeet%20X600%20Series/index.de.asp

引用自 Takeshi_Kovatsch：

The majority might be better of with building a small form factor pcs themselves.

I wouldn't say the majority. The Steam Machine is already about the same or better than what 70% of Steam users have.

Now enthusiasts will probably be better off building their own Steam machine, as long as budget allows. They can make it as powerful as they want, with a price to match of course.

引用自 Haruspex：

引用自 Takeshi_Kovatsch：

The majority might be better of with building a small form factor pcs themselves.

I wouldn't say the majority. The Steam Machine is already about the same or better than what 70% of Steam users have.

Now enthusiasts will probably be better off building their own Steam machine, as long as budget allows. They can make it as powerful as they want, with a price to match of course.

Depends on the use. I am curently using my steamdeck docked as a tv client for streaming my main pc. I am expecting the cube to go the same path as being a thing to stream to.

This is because it is not upgradeble. Its ewaste in three years. Remember me.

Majority of users is better feeded with a upgradeble pc, where you can change Cpu, Gpu, Ram and NVME. On the steam cube Gabecube you cant change CPU and GPU its Ewaste in three years remember me...