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[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think the biggest thing would be getting a PC with decent specs for $500. Why would anybody buy a Dell desktop or the like ever again? Like even if you don't game and need to do office work it'd probably be the best option.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can almost build something like that for this price. Or you can do it if you buy some second hand stuff. But for an OEM building a few million units it would definitely be doable.

[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I was thinking more parents buying a console for their kids. Like oh little Jimmy can do his homework on this thing too, great I didn't have to buy him another computer. Or imagine if Microsoft put windows on Xboxes, every office building would be full of them lol.

[–] Sprawlie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

And it would be great and would break Microsoft's hold on the "desktop" for the average user.

These sorts of computers do already exist though. They're called NUC's. Valve could basically just take one fo those, use a custom APU from AMD again, and have their own full fledged console. Heck, the XBOX and PS5 is exactly that. A Custom AMD APU in a small box.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Especially if they’re going to make their profit in increased game sales.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

MiniPCs are surprisingly good at this price point; good enough that I would say for most people’s average use case they would be satisfied.

I’d like to see them get more popular.