Alienware continues betting on steam machines

Many months have passed since Valve announced the Steam Machines and their support for Linux as a platform for video games, but the former have not achieved the expected support and to this day almost no one continues to believe in them.

Allienware continues to believe in the potential of Steam machines and Linux as a video game platform

The idea of ​​Steam Machines is not bad but video games are not exactly the strong point of Linux and it is not something that will change in the short term, when everyone seems to have accepted the failure of Steam Machines and Steam OS Allienware continues betting on them with the arrival of a new unit with a price of $ 749 and with very respectable specifications and worthy of the gamer teams.

Allieware's new Steam Machine will include an advanced Skylake generation Intel Core i5 processor, high-performance graphics signed by the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 chipset, 8 GB of RAM, 500 GB of hard drive and Wi-Fi 802.11 ac connectivity. A variant with Core i7 processor along with a larger capacity hard drive will be available for a steep price of $ 899.

Allienware continues to believe that the new Vulkan API will significantly change the landscape of video games on Linux and that more and more AAA titles are available, one of the most important shortcomings of the penguin operating system is precisely the lack of weight games among its ranks. A greater presence of AAA games on Linux could attract players to this platform and boost the sale of Steam Machines, although one thing does not necessarily imply the other since any Linux distribution is compatible with Steam, of course Ubuntu.

Source: arstechnica