CES : Valve Announce 13 Steam Machine Partners

CyberPowerPC

Only a few companies have previously announced Steam Machines, but Valve’s CES announcement brings a number of well-known vendors to the platform, including Alienware and Gigabyte, and several companies outside the US – bound to please those who felt left out by Valve’s US-only Steam Machine beta. The 13 companies are (with prices if available):

• Alienware
• Alternate ($1,339)
• CyberPowerPC ($499)
• Digital Storm ($2,584)
• Gigabyte
• Falcon Northwest ($1,799 – $6,000)
• iBuyPower ($499)
• Materiel.net ($1,098)
• Next
• Origin PC
• Scan Computers ($1,090)
• Webhallen ($1,499)
• Zotac ($599)

A number of vendors – like iBuyPower and Digital Storm – have already outlined a number of SteamOS devices available to purchase soon. Valve have not announced any release dates at this time, deferring to manufacturers. Gabe Newell has also stated that manufacturers will be able to make their own Steam Controllers, helping to diversify the Steam hardware ecosystem. 

CyberPowerPC have announced their own $499 Steam Machine with an AMD processor, Radeon graphics, 8GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, and the Steam Controller. A $699 configuration comes with an Intel processor and Nvidia graphics instead. Unlike the dual-boot Bolt II, CyberPowerPC’s pricing is far more competitive with the latest-gen consoles – $499 for the Xbox One and $399.99 for the PS4.

On the high end of the scale are the Steam Machines on offer by Falcon Northwest, which will range from $1,799 to $6,000 with Nvidia GTX Titan graphics, 8–16GB of RAM, and up to 6TB of storage.

Maingear have also announced their Steam Machine “Spark” featuring an AMD A8 5575M processor, Radeon R9 mobile graphics, 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Sadly, no word on price at this time.

Source : OMG Ubuntu