Episode 580 - Gemini in the House

Well, we'll have to keep an eye on that, um, all that, all that cheap energy you guys are gonna have, um, uh, 'cause we'll, we'll need the money 'cause I guess the Valve Steam thing, TJ's all upset about this.

He was gonna buy a Steam, Steam Machine, and not, not to steam his clothes or anything.

It's, it's evidently a co- computer which you play games on.

[laughs]

All right, dad.

I don't know, TJ.

I, I keep f- [laughs] I keep forgetting this thing exists, like the whole Steam platform exists, and then I see this, I'm like, "Wow, that's really cool." And then I'm like, "Oh yeah, lots of people use this." [laughs]

Yeah, I mean, the, the Steam platform actually is very nice.

Uh, I have hundreds of games, and I would say three-fourths of them I've probably never touched, uh, because that's, that's the way Steam works unfortunately.

Um, but I've, I've, I've had a Steam Deck.

I'm not a, I'm not... wasn't a han- huge fan of the Steam Deck 'cause I, I just don't want to, to hold a giant console in my hands.

Like, it's hard enough for me to, like, hold my phone and play a video game long enough.

Like, I just don't wanna do that.

Um, so the, the Steam Machine sounded really interesting because I want to get a gaming computer for the living room, but I, I...

First of all, I don't wanna build one, uh, 'cause I just don't have the, I don't have the desire to do that, but I also don't want a really big computer in the living room.

So this is perfect 'cause it's like GameCube size.

You know, you just put it underneath the TV, you connect the controller to it, you're good to go.

But for $1,000 for 512 gigs, I don't think this one's for me right now.

Yeah, wow.

I was, I was hoping for the price to be like 500 to 750-

Mm

... for like the entry model, you know? And I think the, the other, the, like the Steam Decks for example, I think you can upgrade, like, your own solid state.

I don't think you can upgrade the memory 'cause, you know, it's a, it's a handheld.

Um, but you can, you can upgrade some stuff on that.

Um, so I don't see why you can't upgrade your own storage, but with the, the pricing on storage and especially solid states right now, uh, I don't think you're gonna get any good deals on anything like this.