They lost me at that price point, sadly. And I was really looking forward to this thing launching.
Valve makes damn good products, I’m rocking a Steam Deck and a SC in my personal collection, and love them both.
But my next PC upgrade was looking to be just that… a power upgrade. That was the main focus.
The small form factor, the excellent presentation, and the Valve quality that we all know this is going to have… they would have been nice. But right now I’m looking for equal or better than SM performance regardless of form factor, and I have my sights set on several possible options to get that, all of which are at least a couple of hundred dollars cheaper. Sorry Gabe.
Additionally… no one currently knows specifically what’s going on with him, he’s been MIA for three weeks now.
His spokespeople keep saying that he’s recovering from a medical incident but no one knows which hospital or in general where he is.
I’ve seen some conspiracy theories that he’s actually dead and they’re hiding it to prevent Kentucky’s Democratic governor from sending a Democrat to Washington to replace him, but that doesn’t even make sense, as Kentucky is one of the few states where the governor doesn’t appoint remainder-of-term Congressional replacements… it’d be a special election instead.
The whole thing is super-weird.