Had a complete boot drive meltdown last night. Stayed up until 3AM (had to leave for work at 6AM) trying everything imaginable to recover it but to no avail. Had to make my secondary drive the new main, do a fresh install of Mint, and lost about a month's worth of data. Thanks to Steam cloud and Google Suite, it wasn't nearly as catastrophic as it could have been though.

Either way, it's time to finally upgrade my 11-ish year old rig. With prices the way they are, I'm thinking I might go prebuilt this time. Now here is the question: Do I wait for the Steam Machines to be priced/released or do I just pull the trigger on a new system now?

On one hand, it seems obvious to wait and see what Valve has in store for us. I wouldn't be surprised if they follow the console makers and eat some of the cost on the hardware making it cheaper than it ought to be. On the other hand, I'm not convinced that component prices aren't going to keep rising so it makes sense to buy now instead of waiting for more tariffs or another war or whatever the hell is in store for us.