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Steam Machine reviews may be underway as two new Geekbench listings surface
(www.notebookcheck.net)
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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)