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Steam Machine reviews may be underway as two new Geekbench listings surface
(www.notebookcheck.net)
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Maybe they'll add in a sku with no ram or ssd to draw the line in the sand on what they actually wanted to sell for. That'd also allow customers to potentially recycle older parts like laptop dimms and older m.2 drives
Not sure what a sku is but I think I understand the rest of it and yeah that sounds like it’d be really good. If they just had ram ports as well so you can modify it n stuff. Maybe even scrap a gaming laptop for ram to add to the steam machine.
I’m confident they won’t pull a Nintendo and software lock the hardware meaning you can probably upgrade it if you have the means and knowhow
And sku (read: skew) are variants of a product with slight variations. There's already 4 sku's announced for the Steam Machine: 2 different storage capacities with and without a packaged steam controller.
The Steam Machine is already supposed to use the same SODIMMs you'd find in a laptop to keep it upgradeable for the user
SKU is stock keeping unit. So not really about variant pf a product but every unique sellable items should have it's own SKU so you don't accidentally sell 5 of things with one color while only have 3 in stock.
That....sounds like a variant?
Yes it is a variant but also it's more general than that. If you sold the same item with a different number of pcs in a pack (even if just a plastic packing), it also gets SKU. In general you can't break SKU into smaller units without making a different SKU.
So if you sell socks in 1, 3, and 5 pairs, all get their own SKU even if every pair of socks in the bundle are the same kind. That means if someone wants to order 1 pcs but you only have SKU for 3 in your system, they can't. Even if the item is there physically. Not unless you remove the SKU of the 3 bundle and add 3 of the 1 (which requires the buyer to communicate it and the seller to jump a bunch of hoops on their system)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_keeping_unit
Mhhh. Aight.
From my viewpoint I already denomintaed it out as a single unit under the awareness of every other change becoming a new SKU.
But others might not know. So at least they'll know now (thumbs up)