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This $1,299 gaming PC wants to be a Steam Machine without waiting for Valve [STEAMOS, AMD Ryzen 5 9600X, Radeon RX 7600, 16GB of DDR5-5600, 1TB NVMe SSD] (www.digitaltrends.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Author couldn't even be bothered to post a link to the product.

https://www.metapcs.com/products/steamroller

It's not officially licensed so expect it to disappear.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (7 children)

    I’ve seen 4-5 different articles mentioning that this is the steam killer and posting this same brand. This obviously an advertisement.

    It’s quite predatory and makes me genuinely avoid this brand because of their marketing practices.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Uhhhh I mean if it was an advertisement they probably would have included a link. Its genuinely an interesting product.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That’s a tactic - saying this from experience working with SEO people. Introducing traffic through Google searches rather than including a link is much more valuable. It’s considered organic traffic. Google values more if users search on their engine and find the product rather than following a link. Also it’s been proven like decades ago; users tend to check (and buy) more in detail if they find the product by themselves. Links have high drop off rate. It’s kinda same idea someone finding a treasure.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Introducing traffic through Google searches rather than including a link is much more valuable

    I mean sure. But then you're counting on them to actually perform those searches.

    users tend to check (and buy) more in detail if they find the product by themselves

    Yeah no shit. Because the act of searching indicates they're already interested in purchasing the product. You're working the logic backwards. It does nothing if they just can't be bothered to search for it and never find it. You're just adding friction for no reason.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Its genuinely an interesting product.

    Why do you think that? All i see is a regular pc inside a 60 dollar jonsbo case. How is this exciting?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    You may have glossed over the part where it comes with SteamOS.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    One can install that themselves right? So its basically the same thing as laptops shipping with the latest windows

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    You greatly overestimate the technical prowess and willingness of the average consumer. Consumers want something they can just plug in and play. It's why they are entire business built on Linux hardware sales.

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