Lots of people estimated ~$800 based on the specs and Valve’s statement that it will be priced similar to a comparable PC. But that was several months ago, so probably $900-1000 by now.

“Alleged”? Haven’t we known this for months?

Same reason people still use Facebook and Xitter.

Not to my knowledge, no.

Google spent a lot of time developing sandboxed environments and now they want to tear it all down…

I mean, they’re going to accelerate the pace, obviously…

I dunno, can they?

Even my friend with a tesla had issues.

Not going to discount their experience but I feel like mine should be equally valid. I take 3-4 road trips/year with nary an issue other than 1 or 2 stalls being down or a short wait during the holiday season at a packed charging station, over the last 4+ years.

having to wait 20 minutes for the car to charge when you have kids or whatever is obnoxious.

After 4+ hours of driving, I am more than ready for a short break. I will typically stay stopped for longer than it even takes to charge while I get something to eat.

That’s very cool. Excuse my ignorance but couldn’t Dell and Lenovo just…write their own firmware?

my friends have told me horror stories of getting to to charging stations and finding them broken, getting stranded.

Its an unfortunate reality. My first BEV was a Chevy Bolt. The unreliability of charging infrastructure caused me a lot of pain when traveling. Got a Tesla in 2021 and that pain evaporated. Charging stations are abundant and work perfectly 99% of the time. The other 1% you just move to a different stall.

Fortunately they are slowly opening this charging network to other OEMs and I think the reliability in general has improved considerably. But it does still require some research when traveling.

If you have a multi-vehicle family it makes a lot of sense to have 1 BEV and 1 PHEV.

I have 3 counter-arguments for this “dirty coal” nonsense:

1. Plugging into a 100% coal-powered connection still produces far fewer greenhouse gases per mile than ICE (and especially diesel).
2. The emissions are created at the power plant, and not pumped into the air directly outside your home where your children might be playing.
3. Electricity can come from pretty much infinite sources from coal to gas, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. etc. but oil only ever comes from 1 place.

Right. The point is they’re not even pretending.

I mean it’s in most CEO’s best interest to pretend to care about the general public.

True that, but the problem is that would have been a fairly normal recession but now we’re careening towards a straight up depression.

I’ve never heard of this guy before but fuck him. He doesn’t even consider the global fucking impact of (another) recession that they’re intentionally causing on normal people.

Depends on where you build it but yes, most of the value is typically in the land itself.

I live in an area where a lot of 3D-printed houses are going up. They tout the low cost of construction but guess what? All those savings go directly into the pockets of the builders. They still charge market prices for the houses. Because why wouldn’t they?

Tariffs don’t even impact video games, and yet they raised the prices by 33%

Exactly. It’ll probably run Balatro at 4k/120 just fine but Cyberpunk is going to struggle at anything above 720p30/low

They can if those entities are doing business in California.