How fast does this thing boot up? Do you have to type in a password? An “instant on” machine certainly has DAW appeal. There may be other appeals besides price to performance ratios though. It looks like a really fun gadget, and I’m attracted to it- but I just don’t need a portable form factor like that right now.Ĭurious to see why people want it, how they envision themselves using it, and how they actually use it once its in their hands for a few months. There’s a lot of people who just don’t need the portability at the end of the day. However, a big emphasis is on the portable aspect. It doesn’t seem like there’s a similar offer out there right now. It might not strike us as an obvious slam dunk because its not top of the line pro level gear, but for what its offering it does seem to be a unique deal.Ī portable 16gb ram x86 machine going for $400 is pretty good.

Yeah, I think this is at least part of the appeal. At $400 for the base model, but with a serious GPU and CPU and 16GB of RAM, the price doesn’t “make sense” in the current PC marketplace - Valve is almost surely selling the base model at a loss to get plenty of people talking and adopting it and selling more Steam games

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