( unless i have missed an article on this... )
I wonder why Michael hasn't bothered to cover the H/W aspect of what Valve appears to be using for 'Steambox'??
it was covered all over CES 2013, tons of Youtube videos about it. Xi3 (OEM) and Valve were both displaying 'Piston' ~ developmental H/W, that will likely be Steam box. Xi3's hardware is x86_64 based and is completely modular and definitely cool and has been fully-tested for running Steam/games in 'big picture mode'...
interestingly, the H/W does NOT use Nvidia, but instead AMD APU. (i mention this, since people keep talking about Valve using Nvidia ~ which would make sense, but i haven't seen any evidence for that... The only arrangement that i have heard of between Valve and nVidia is the hand-held console (called SHIELD) that can stream your steam games from your PC onto your T.V.
Coverage on both (but mostly the Xi3 stuff)
and a couple news articles from Xi3, who say their products/prototypes will be the Steam Box:
...if michael/phoronix hasn't covered this stuff - i think that is just hilarious...
it also appears that Steam box will not be locked down in any way ~ so you can run whatever OS you like, but will likely ship Linux + Steam by default.
cheerz
I wonder why Michael hasn't bothered to cover the H/W aspect of what Valve appears to be using for 'Steambox'??
it was covered all over CES 2013, tons of Youtube videos about it. Xi3 (OEM) and Valve were both displaying 'Piston' ~ developmental H/W, that will likely be Steam box. Xi3's hardware is x86_64 based and is completely modular and definitely cool and has been fully-tested for running Steam/games in 'big picture mode'...
interestingly, the H/W does NOT use Nvidia, but instead AMD APU. (i mention this, since people keep talking about Valve using Nvidia ~ which would make sense, but i haven't seen any evidence for that... The only arrangement that i have heard of between Valve and nVidia is the hand-held console (called SHIELD) that can stream your steam games from your PC onto your T.V.
Coverage on both (but mostly the Xi3 stuff)
and a couple news articles from Xi3, who say their products/prototypes will be the Steam Box:
Originally posted by Xi3 news article
it also appears that Steam box will not be locked down in any way ~ so you can run whatever OS you like, but will likely ship Linux + Steam by default.
cheerz
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