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Building a better PC than the Steam Machine for cheaper: is it possible?

Valve's Steam Machine is overpriced and underpowered due to soaring component costs driven by AI investments, making it a bad deal. A better PC can be built for cheaper, challenging the value of Valve's console.

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I'm truly, genuinely sorry to everyone who was looking forward to helping Gabe Newell buy a hundredth yacht, but it's just an unavoidable truth: the Steam Machine is kind of a bad deal, guys. Valve's overpriced, underpowered little cube is just the latest victim of soaring component prices driven by investment in AI, because who cares if you can't afford a computer as long as the most racist person you know can make his virtual girlfriend say a slur. — Read the rest

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