If you've been putting off pre-ordering Valve's upcoming Steam Link or Steam Controller hardware since the devices first went on pre-sale earlier this month, we have some bad news. Valve has announced that it has sold out of units for the initial "get it early" offer (with its expected delivery on October 16). Any orders placed from now on will instead be delivered weeks later on November 10.
You may have also missed your chance to get early delivery of the first commercial "Steam Machines" pre-loaded with SteamOS. Any orders for the Alienware Steam Machines placed through GameStop since last Thursday will now be shipped November 10 rather than October 16. Syber now lists a ship date "on or after 10/15/2015" for its first wave of Steam Machines.
Anyone in Soylent-Land got their hands on a pre-release console?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday July 03 2015, @06:38AM
Steam machines are PCs whose hardware is, let's be pessimists, *potentially* linux compatible.
Which is exactly the only PC hardware that is worth owning.
Unless you like to pay monthly for your pro level applications and windows subscriptions, which will happen in the other camp eventually.
So while it's early adopting, it's early adopting a rope when you're pushed towards a cliff.
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