CreepingFear
Member
Makes me wonder if there will be a whole new market for designing steam computer cases, not counting your standard mAtx and mini ITX cases that are already out there.
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Steam Machine unboxing
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It looks better than the Xbox One to me :/
I wonder how noisy it is though, the Xbox One is king there, the PS4, not so much.
I think it has already started.
Lé Blade Runner
Member
That crate is amazing. The box... Looks allright. Can't wait to see the controller more up and close, though.
opticalmace
Member
Yes
Sure
Kocolino67
Member
Nah, I have my mind right here and all good. Free hardware means that the 300 lucky beta testers receive a well chosen package of SteamOS fitting costly hardware. Nothing else.
There is no NDA, everyone is allowed to blog, film, and discuss the good and the bad things during the beta. It's part of Valve's open approach. Which is not only a kind move. It's also a part of their overall concept to push their present and future products. I call that smart.
Now I am even more jealous I didn't get in. Whoever got the titan in their machine is probably stoked.
Cannon Goose
Member
The speed holes on the top of the case.
Maybe. They probably want some or all of the machines back to get data and feedback. This is a test after all.
Felix Lighter
Member
That is such a nice tidy case. It's basically the length of a video card. Assuming it works well, it's amazing the power packed in the little thing and it remains modular for upgrading.
The PS4 is almost silent.
I'm imagining an incentive will be offered in order to get the Steam Machines back for evaluation.
ashecitism
Member
booting up and playing Don't Starve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khC927-1fRY
Red Chocobo
Banned
Boy these things are going to be expensive.
ashecitism
Member
these prototypes aren't for sale
Dreams-Visions
Member
I love it.
Red Chocobo
Banned
I mean the finished product.
Which one?
They send that data back over the internet.
MutonCommander
Banned
Looks great, very fast and very smooth UI.
ashecitism
Member
Valve won't sell these machines. These are for testing only. There won't be a Valve Steam Machine. There's going to be different machines from different OEMs. Some competitive to consoles, some expensive etc
You can't have all the data on the hd sent over the internet. Well, you could but it's not very practical. Also people can do modifications to these systems.
Multiple machines from multiple partners, from $499 to $ridiculous (announced so far). There should be streaming boxes that Gabe says will be $99 but eventually free and boxes at $299 with dedicated graphics cards. You can also build your own.
The machines are as cheap or expensive as you want them to be
Looks like it uses GRUB.
Why would they need all the data on the HDD back? That wouldn't be useful or efficient.
Maybe people have changed the partitioning, modified the os or even replaced parts of it. They want to see what's done?
Red Chocobo
Banned
Any of them.
They already said the beta testers get to keep their machines
Well, It goes from potentially free to multi thousand dollar hypermachines.
ashecitism
Member
These machines have telemetry built into them
and there's a bug tracker for the testers.
ok, nice.
ashecitism
Member
not yet, but wouldn't matter much anyway, SteamOS is in very early beta (1.0 basically)
Kocolino67
Member
Damn, I have to go to Google+ to comment on youtube!? I forgot about that. Corey should film more controller action.
Play some games, don't just use the dashboard. Preferably something intense like Killzone, then get back to me.
ashecitism
Member
btw browsing reddit, look like this other guy is going to make lots of vids, already got some list planned
http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1spt8y/steam_box_youtube_videos_for_the_community/
surely others to come too
http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1spt8y/steam_box_youtube_videos_for_the_community/
surely others to come too
That can all be sent via the internet and is a small amount of information.
Besides, I can't see how people modifying the OS would be useful to Valve as something to collect. They're interested in things like stability, usability, compatibility, probably thermals and power usage - all of which is a small amount of information and can be tracked and sent via the internet like pretty much every modern piece of software does now.
I suppose they could look at how the hardware has held up in terms of any heat damage, but they're all standard PC parts, and that sort of stress testing can be done more effectively in a lab.