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[cascara]

La compañía iBuyPower ofrece un vistazo a sus propias creaciones.

La compañía iBuyPower reveló las primeras imágenes de los prototipos de Steam Machines en los que han estado trabajando de acuerdo a las especificaciones dadas por Valve. Se trata de dos plataformas con los nombres clave “Gordon” y “Freeman” –en una clara referencia a Half-Life– que se espera estén listas para salir a la venta en algún momento del 2014.

Aunque no se revelaron las especificaciones técnicas de los prototipos, los responsables dicen que las versiones finales correrán juegos de Steam a 60fps con una resolución de 1080p. Por su parte, el sitio The Verge reporta que la arquitectura de dichas máquinas consta de un CPU AMD multinúcleo, una tarjeta gráfica AMD Radeon R9 270, disco duro de 500 GB y componentes bluetooth y Wi-Fi.

En cuanto a la apariencia física, ambas máquinas presentan un acabado blanco idéntico, y la única diferencia se encuentra en la barra de luz que rodea su chasis (una es más clara que la otra).

Cabe señalar que los prototipos trabajan mediante una versión previa del SteamOS, así que todo el paquete está completo.

http://www.niubie.com/2013/11/surge-...team-machines/

[Kergen]

De pinta está linda la bicha, no "wow", pero linda.

Ahora, no sé hasta dónde se podría considerar a las SM unas consolas. Si bien el concepto de consola está bastante desvirtuado, eso directamente es una PC normal, en case para el salón.

[dDaunloz]

Este viernes se shippean 300 Steam machines y se hace disponible para bajar el Steam OS

Fuente: maximunpc

[Jack O'Neill]

El OS se puede bajar?

Si es así habría que ver la parte estética que tan bueno esta y funcionalidad y si esta bueno uno se puede armar una pc a gusto y poner el so no?

Enviado desde mi bq Edison usando Tapatalk 2

[Reizor]

Según valve si, podes poner el SO en cualquier pc.
Para jugar los de windows dependes de una pc con windows en tu casa que haga el streaming del juego

[Ryuug4]

Everything you need to know to install SteamOS on your very own computer

The SteamOS installer showed up on Valve's servers (ZIP) at about 17:20 CST on 13 December, and downloading was a madhouse of slow speeds and rampant disconnects. Fortunately, Bittorrent came to the rescue, and after a while we were able to grab what we needed.

Downloading the SteamOS installer was a slow process at first, but after an hour or so a number of torrents popped up. They
worked admirably.

SteamOS is a customized Linux distro based not on Ubuntu, as was reported prior to its release, but rather on Debian Wheezy. Valve is maintaining their own SteamOS package repository (and is using these preinstalled packages). For now, the SteamOS beta is using version 3.10.11 of the Linux kernel. Other SteamOS customizations off of Debian include a heavily patched graphics compositor to link together SteamOS, Steam games, and the Steam in-game overlay. The operating system has been configured to pull its updates directly from Valve's repository. It's also got a standard Gnome desktop environment hiding out beneath the Steam-y bits, which we'll get to.

If you're one of the 300 actual Steam Machine beta testers, you can report bugs and issues directly to Valve (and, if you're one of the 300 actual Steam Machine beta testers, you already know this). For the rest of us, Valve is hosting a community issue tracker on Github, where users can post issues. Unfortunately, the tracker's README file contains the following dispiriting information about how much of a response those postings will receive:

This issue tracker is meant for community support and requests for improvements; it will not be closely monitored by Valve while the Hardware Beta Test is running.

The installation

There are two different ways to get SteamOS installed on your system, which Valve has helpfully outlined on the "build your own Steam Machine" page. The first is a fully automated method that restores the contents of a 2.7GB disk image onto your computer's hard disk drive. This method is simpler, but requires a much larger download; we skipped it in favor of the alternative.

That alternative, which Valve calls a "custom installation," involves using a UEFI-booting 960MB Debian-based installer to kick off a multi-step script based process. It requires a bit more work, but it's not terribly daunting. After installing all of the SteamOS packages, this method relies on the user to boot into the OS and trigger scripts to create a restore partition of the completed install; in fact, the 2.7GB fully automated install is so much larger because it already contains the restore partition.

It's worth noting that both methods require you to have a computer that can boot via UEFI. The basis for the requirement isn't exactly clear yet, and at least one enterprising redditor has figured out how to hack around it and make an installer that works with a standard BIOS—though the consequences of actually following those instructions are unknown.

One very important caveat: Both of the official install methods will erase your hard drive. At least for now, there is no way to dual-boot SteamOS or install it on a second hard drive. The installer is a Debian custom unattended install, which includes automatic partitioning of the computer's primary disk and then an automated OS install onto the new partitions. The larger, image-based method partitions the disk and then installs pre-created disk images onto those partitions. At least for now, the only way to get SteamOS onto a computer is to sacrifice that computer to Valve.

The custom install

We decided to try the smaller custom installer first, simply because it was faster to download. Unzipping the custom installer's zip file reveals the Debian installer files. We copied the whole mess onto a fresh FAT32-formatted USB stick and then booted up our test system.

The boot manager presented us with a few options. The instructions recommended picking the "Automated Install" option and so, because this was our first time and we wanted to try to do it right before we started screwing with it, we followed the instructions. We also went back in later and ran through "Expert install" mode; unfortunately, although they give you some more flexibility in what packages are installed, they don't allow you customize the partition layout (which is what everyone seems to want).

After picking "Automated Install," the installer ran on its merry way and did a bunch of Debian-like things, partitioning our disk and installing its packages without any input from us. Total time for this first portion of the install was just over 19 minutes.

The gotcha

Here is where we made our one and only big mistake. The Debian logon window includes a session chooser, where you specify which local desktop instance to connect to, and the SteamOS instructions clearly specify to pick the "Gnome" session:

7. After installation is complete, log onto the resulting system (using the Gnome session) with the predefined "steam" account.

Unfortunately, the logon window on my TV was rendered with illegibly small text. I assumed that the correct session would be selected by default, but it wasn't—the session chooser (perhaps unsurprisingly) defaults to, "Default X Session." While attached to the wrong session, I couldn't start Steam. Proceeding with the installation directions past that led to a whole lot of problems and culminated in a system that wouldn't boot at all. Rather than take time to troubleshoot, I ended up reinstalling SteamOS.

This is what I saw the first time I logged on. Not the most legible of greetings. It's impossible to tell what session you're
selecting.

Choosing the right session

Back at the logon screen, we had to hunt around a bit and found the option to make the text larger (it's in the upper-right corner), and we ended up connecting a DVI monitor just so we could see what exactly was going on—this helped immensely. After picking "Gnome" and logging on with the Steam account, we hit the "Steam" shortcut on the desktop, which downloaded the Steam client.

What the dialog box is supposed to look like.

After that, we rode out the rest of the directions, logging on as the unprivileged "desktop" user, kicking off the post_logon.sh script, and letting SteamOS automatically create a restore partition from its post-install state.

First real log-on

The computer then rebooted again and a deep bass rumbling started up. It quickly increased in volume and my Christmas tree shed ornaments and my wife stuck her head in to see what the hell was happening—it was SteamOS, coming to life! The computer was connected to my receiver (and thence to the TV) over HDMI, and SteamOS starts up for the first time with a brief welcome animation with accompanying impressive rumbly sounds. Apparently I'd left the receiver's volume turned up pretty high, and the welcome animation and its audio was... startling.

However, this was good news: audio out over HDMI worked immediately, without me having to do any tweaking at all!

SteamOS asked me to choose my language, agree to an EULA, and then select a time zone. Then it asked for my username and password, which I entered, and it hit me with a Steam Guard prompt, which also worked like normal, and then we were into SteamOS. That was it.

[Ryuug4]

Some specifics

The operating system is all cool blues and soft silvers. While navigating around, a nondescript low music plays—it's half ominous and half soothing. If anything, there's a little too much motion going on—most areas of the operating system have a raindrop/speckling animation playing behind them, and several screens are overlaid on top of shifting mosaics made up of game title screens, or your buddies' avatars. It's not quite overdone, but it's close.

The first thing we tried to do once logged in was connect a controller, and we were pleasantly surprised to see that the wired Xbox 360 controller was immediately identified as an "Xinput compatible controller." After connecting it, the SteamOS menu prompts changed from mouse-clickable "OK" and "Cancel" buttons to "A - Select" and "B - Done" buttons.

More, the operating system shifts slickly back and forth between mouse and controller input. If you wiggle a controller's stick or press a button, the controller-specific prompts fade in. Grab the mouse, and the mouse-clickable buttons fade back. It's a thoughtful and well-designed touch.

Text entry via the controller is also done in an extremely intuitive fashion. When you've selected a text field, an eight-pointed star appears, with each point in the star containing four characters. To enter text, you move the left stick in one of eight directions, highlighting on of the star's points, and then press the controller button corresponding to the letter you want to select. It only took a few seconds to get comfortable with it. I wouldn't want to write a long e-mail with it, but for quick text entry it was perfectly fine.

Text entry via controller is nicely handled.

Breaking free

And, of course, Debian is lurking just below the surface. There's a configuration option labeled "Enable access to the Linux desktop," and if you tick that, SteamOS gains an "Exit" button that kicks you out to the Gnome desktop.

The thing we were most curious about was how much space was taken up by Steam post install. A quick peek revealed the following:

The partitions lurking beneath.

Even though the SteamOS requirements list a 500GB drive as the minimum, there's plenty of space free. Our 500GB drive has been chopped up into five partitions; the largest is /home, with 2.6GB used and 406GB free and ready to be used for Steam content.

We didn't have a smaller SSD handy to test with, but unless the installer specifically checks, a disk smaller than 500GB will host SteamOS without any problems.

Fuente y mas info: ArsTechnica.com

[the_mac]

[dDaunloz]

Digital Storm fue la primer compania en revelar sus steam machines. Hoy anuncian que la Digital Storm Bolt II saldra a final de mes por $1,899.

La Bolt II va a tener dual-boot, Windows y SteamOS, y water cooling por default, con un Intel Core i5-4670K OCeado a 4.2GHz, 1TB hdd y 120GB ssd.

Menciona una 780 ti como opcion a upgrade, pero se olvidaron de decir con cual viene por defecto.. Tambien habla de un 4770k como up.

Fuente: theverge

[dDaunloz]

CyberPowerPC tambien anuncia Steam Machine con configuraciones arrancando en $499, pero recien estaran disponibles a mitad de año.

Las configuraciones van desde la "Steam Machine A" con un AMD A6 6400K, 8GB DDR3-1600, R9 270, 500GB SATA 6Gbps hdd, 802.11n Wi-Fi en una mITX ($499).
Hasta la "Steam Machine I" con un Intel Core i3 4330 y una GTX 760 ($699).

Ambas conf bastante menos agresivas que la de Digital Storm que mencione antes, pero aseguran poder jugar tranqui en 1080p. Ambas traen el control de steam incluido

Fuente: maximumPC

[Ryuug4]

está linda la primera, la segunda no me gustó tanto estéticamente..

igual la steam machine es una PC con el so pre-instalado nomas :P

[Juancho]

igual la steam machine es una PC con el so pre-instalado nomas :P

Como la PS4, Xbox One y Xbox 360

Digital Storm es conocida por hacer maquinas super saladas pero ademas, por los gabinetes exclusivos que NO VENDEN SUELTOS, son unos artistas del cooling aparentemente esta gente

[dDaunloz]

sep, yo los sigo en fb, y tan tremendas las maquinas que se arman.. los gabinetes son todos similares (los exclusivos), pero re prolijos.. xq despues hacen maquinas con otros gabos y le ponen su logo

usan mucho corsair
el VIRTUE es un 350D
el MARAUDER es un Vengeance C70
el VANQUISH es un 300R
el HAILSTORM II es un 910D


tambien tenes el enix que es un SilverStones FT03

despues tenes el Bolt y el Aventum II que si son de ellos creo, y son los que estan tremendos

[Juancho]

Con el aventum 2 fue que los de PC Gamer hicieron la maquina mas cochina del mundo (4 vgas titan y la mar en coche)

[xHomer]

Y como es la movida con estas steam machines, Corren todos los juegos que tienen en steam? Dado que es un linux "valveado" xd no se como sera eso y como funcionaran los games. Es lo unico que no creo hasta verlo.
(no leí todo los mensajes del hilo, aviso).

[dDaunloz]

todos los que digan steamplay, que no son todos todos

[dDaunloz]

A diferencia de otras empresas como Sony and Microsoft, Gabe Newell co-founder de Valve dijo en reddit:

"We're trying to make it [SteamOS] as open as possible," and "If EA wants to put Origin on it, that would be fine, etc... "

Fuente: OverClock3D


Igual... se lleva el premio a captain obvious... si es una pc.. ahora la unica forma de correr origin seria teniendo windows, si bien SteamOS es open, no creo que EA de soporte para sus juegos en linux, y menos se ponga a desarrollar Origin

[solid snake]

mmm...no le tengo fe pero tendria que esperar a ver que sale de eso...