Viewing topic To wait or not to wait

Title: To wait or not to wait

Expalphalog 5 hours ago

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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.

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mr-victory 3 hours ago

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Quoting: ExpalphalogI 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.

iirc that will not be the case, the steam machine will be sold around cost.
I wish I had a slightly better laptop, I have a strong desktop (see specs) but my laptop gets way more use, if it had a slightly better iGPU i'd be playing more on it, not the same games as desktop ofc. Current laptops are not looking bad price / perf wise.
I have MacBook Air from 2015

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GustyGhost 2 hours ago

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Option C) continue with current arrangement and make a move on something when an opportunity arises.

The hardware release waiting game is a game which can go on forever. It's all too easy to look just beyond the launch window of some exciting part only to find that a slightly better part is only N months away.

I dodge falling into this grind by aligning my hardware builds and/or upgrades to Debian stable releases, a two year cadence.

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