My partner and I both signed up for a Steam Machine, and I for a Steam Frame. We got waitlisted for all 3, and in the last 24 hours we got into the queue for all of them. Time to decide which machine (2TB vs 512) to get, and if we actually want a Frame!
I had a TB NVMe lying around so I bought the 512 Machine. The swap is easy. I would have done the same if I had a 1 TB microSD.
Point is, I would weigh the cost of adding your own storage, at todays prices the 2TB might actually be somewhat resonable.
I also happen to have 32 GB of RAM lying around and want to swap it out for the 16. But that is not as easy. Shame, I wish valve had designed it better for the ram swap.
Edit: I wanted to add that I have been in my remote office for the past several months and this device is awesome. Traveling with it was easy (international flights), and It is on my desk running silently 8 hours a day as my primary work device. At night I get some games in and it performs like a champ for that too.
Yeah, originally the idea was to insta upgrade it but I don’t have any RAM or SSD lying around. The costs of a good SSD or a good microSD aren’t that much lower than upgrading from valve, so I’ll definitely consider that.
That’s so exciting to hear! It’s gonna be a do everything machine for my partner so glad it is quiet and can game
Absolutely silent. My desktop at home makes more noise.
There are a few small quirks to having a immutable distro and only using flatpak. Your home is preserved though, so no issues there.
Most people probably wont even notice.
BUT: if you do find something that is not in flatpak, or doesn’t play nice, it is really easy to use KDE Kontainer and add a distro of your choice in a container. Anything you put here is never touched by SteamOS updates, interacts fully with your own user, and icons can simply be added to the menu to launch without having to touch or manually launch the container again. There are several guides and it is fairly painless.
Again, you may never need to. I just am adding that info here if anyone finds it useful.