alienware steam machine

[Renob]

Got to play around with one today they have a few set up in the lunch room at work, the machine is small and the controller funky but I will give it some time to see if it grows on me.

I liked the menu system and the games all looked and ran great think I will need to be getting me one for the living room seeing I have about 80 steam games.

 

[CPA]

I've been thinking about getting a machine, but I'm thinking the Steam Link and controller should suffice for playing games on the TV.

 

[mundane]

I've been thinking about getting a machine, but I'm thinking the Steam Link and controller should suffice for playing games on the TV.

I'm hoping for the same. I have an NUC i5 currently serving as a streamer, and would like to decommission to use for something else.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I just have a PC with an i5 and a radeon hooked directly up to my projector, I used it a heck of a lot more than my dedicated gaming i5 box (this one has one 6870, the dedicated box has r290)

 

[quikah]

Got to play around with one today they have a few set up in the lunch room at work, the machine is small and the controller funky but I will give it some time to see if it grows on me.

I liked the menu system and the games all looked and ran great think I will need to be getting me one for the living room seeing I have about 80 steam games.

It is $50 more for the Windows based Alienware alpha. Not seeing the appeal of this...

 

[cbrunny]

It is $50 more for the Windows based Alienware alpha. Not seeing the appeal of this...

Well you either understand and appreciate what steam is trying to do with SteamOS or you don't I guess. I tend to agree with you - not totally clear on the advantages. Relative to the obvious disadvantages of using SteamOS - that is you don't get Windows or a real PC, SteamOS seems kind of odd. Unless the drivers are great and Linux does prove worthy of gaming. That'd be about the only advantage I can think of.

But then again I guess they're marketing this at console users so what do I know.

 

[sweenish]

You get a real PC.

But for $50 more, you can get the same machine with Windows and open your possibilities up a bit more.

All your other gaming clients, for one.

Do DXInput games still fully support Xbox controllers in SteamOS?

There are literally no advantages to SteamOS.