Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve
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spronk
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i got an invite to order the 512gb earlier today so the invites are going out, i have 3 days
obviously no way i'm gonna buy it for myself, i have a 4070ti PC and a backup 3080 so it would be pointless. i could resell it i guess but its like 50/50 i'd get scammed on ebay and be out 1500 (common for people to "return" the item and send back a brick and ebay gives zero fucks)
obviously no way i'm gonna buy it for myself, i have a 4070ti PC and a backup 3080 so it would be pointless. i could resell it i guess but its like 50/50 i'd get scammed on ebay and be out 1500 (common for people to "return" the item and send back a brick and ebay gives zero fucks)
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I did go ahead and try to install Bazzite tonight on my gaming PC to dual boot and give it a shot. Took about 10 minutes total between downloading the ISO, writing it with Fedora Disk Writer, Installing, and logging into Steam. Even came with Steam pre-loaded. Haven’t run anything yet, but it was shockingly easy compared to a decade plus ago.
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spronk
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the system is healing i think, i'm seeing sold ebay listings for steam machines (512gb, controller) for $1500-1600. Valve wants to charge me $1128+taxes for it, which comes out to about $1200. $1500 ebay sale eats up $200-250 in fees plus shipping, so I'd be "risking" $1200 to make like... $50.
So yeah, people who are reselling these things are gonna be fucked since so many things go wrong, especially nowadays UPS/FedEx drivers just stealing shit that is obviously valuable, happens all the time with iphones and steam decks.
There are also 161 listings and only 36 sold listings so demand contrasted with people who "bought" with intent of just reselling is very lopsided.
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Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if there's very limited demand for these. It offers absolutely nothing except that retarded shit someone mentioned earlier about CEC or some other retarded dumb shit
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I'll just say I bought a bulk amount of 5000 series cards when they launched so I could hand them over to friends and family and then they just pay me back what I paid. I ended up with two extra 5080s that I'm still sitting on. The resale market hasn't really been hot for anything thats not a 5090. I really just want my money back, and even thats been difficult.
spronk
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if you had bought $5000 of NVDA stock at the end of jan 2025 it would have been worth $8200 now. my wife is insanely lucky, she bought a lot of nvidia way back in 2018 because some cnbc dude said its a fundamental tech stock and its gone up like 5000% in her IRA (it split twice too)
i know it'll crash at some point but im not gonna be the asshole who tells her to sell before it goes up another 5000%. she did sell enough to cover the initial buy so its all riding gravy now
i know it'll crash at some point but im not gonna be the asshole who tells her to sell before it goes up another 5000%. she did sell enough to cover the initial buy so its all riding gravy now
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