
What's your take on the prices and specs of these things? They'll be running on Steam OS and are geared more towards gaming although I have no idea what a person would do with 6TB worth of storage. I'm also concerned about heating issues with some these machines. They are built as compact gaming rigs to emulate consoles so that doesn't give them much option when it comes to cooling and airflow. Components seem to be overpriced and the mobo used are probably unable to support GPU SLI. Digital Storm's Bolt II has similar specs to my PC (i7 4770k, GTX780, 16GB RAM, 120SSD, 1TB HDD) but the price is higher by about $1,000 than my build..which supports SLI capability, better airflow, and all the other advantages of a real PC.
Next-gen consoles (PS4,XB1) are priced much lower to cater to the mainstream community so they can have a market for $60 game titles. I don't see any advantage on purchasing these pre-made Steam Machines over the options we currently have: buy a $400 console or build a PC.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/valv ... nes-specs/