t’s certainly been a journey for Valve. A week prior to the Steam Frame’s launch, we spoke with two engineers at Valve about the project: Joy Lyons, hardware engineer, and Jeremy Selan, software engineer. The memory crisis and the price were a big part of that conversation. From that chat, we can confirm that Valve had aimed for a lower price point than the one it’s launching the Frame for today.
Here’s Lyons on the memory crisis:
“We set out to design this hardware with one particular price in mind, but we’ve made choices to make sure that we’re making a product that is choiceful, that people can purchase, they can upgrade with different features later. But we wanted to make sure we had a base product with really great performance. Then that price target shifted due to the ongoing RAM crisis around the world.”
Lyons also said that forecasting for the cost of certain components used in the Steam Frame is an ongoing challenge.
Not exactly boding well of the Steam Deck 2.
Honey, you can even run Asahi Linux (fully FOSS) on Apple Silicon. WTF are you taking about?
Not for a lack of Apple trying to lock it down.
Asahi Linux does not work on the latest macs, and most of the features on M1/M2 do not work.
You dont have these issues with x86, because it is more open source than ARM. AMD and Intel treat Linux as a first-class citizen and upload code for their computers directly to Mainline Linux.
Literally, none of these things is true.
If you spent as much time on research, as you apparently do one making shit up, you would know that.
Da fuck you are talking about? Asahi was a community effort to reverse engineer tons of proprietary closed source stuf. It’s literally an argument against arm being open source friendly.
First of all, ARM is not owned by Apple, and if it weren’t so open, so open source friendly, Apple would not have been able to create Apple Silicon chips in the first place.
Secondly, lol, Asahi Linux proved that, not only could apple’s apple silicon chips be reversed engineered, but that it was both a worthwhile enterprise and that Apple wouldn’t come after them. Because Apple officially stated that they just do not care. Apple intentionally designed the chips to be capable of booting and running alternate operating systems. They, themselves, created a very clear and open development pathway.
Oh, not to mention that it is definitely Linux.
So… That’s what the fuck I’m talking about. Again, what the fuck are you talking about?
I see the issue. You narrowed your vision to just ARM as standard, ignoring rest of the stuff that comes with it. And you continue to fail in seeing obvios issues with it, saying that Asahi proves me wrong somehow. Again, Asahi is a miracle of revers-engineering . If ARM was indeed so open (like for example, linux) you wouldn’t fucking need revers-engineering to run custom OS. Yes, standard opened, cool. Go run linux on Qualcom chips. Oh, you can’t cause they don’t provide drivers? Maybe then you can run it on new M5? Oh, you also can’t even tho you already have all that jazz to load custom OS on mac? Damn. It’s almost like ARM is not key to platform being opened or not.
Upd. I get here nothing but pointless downvotes and hate, I’m not continue this stupid discussion with someone who have no connection to development of those platforms in the first place.