Been a bit since I've seen anyone with dual 5:4's.

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

THANKS OBAMA

I'm so mad that the library I work at didn't close.

They did it with Portal 2 on PC and PS3. Cross platform is always possible, and has always been possible. It's entirely up to the game development team and the platform itself to decide to provide it.

And that's why they have steam machines, for average user. If neither a steam machine nor steamOS has any appeal to an average user, they just won't get it.

If you have no interest in the beautiful tech experiment, you can wait until the end of the timed exclusive. Otherwise, give Steam-ix a whirl, maybe you'll love it.

Right, because every other HL game released at the same time on every platform...oh wait...

While I can't see them launching it as a SteamOS exclusive forever, I think it'd be a great idea to release it a month or few earlier on SteamOS to encourage adoption. Worst case scenario, you just dual boot your computer. It's the easiest thing in the world on some of the more recent linux distros. Insert boot cd >…

Linux has a file system structure just the same way that Windows does. The beauty of AdventureOS is that it will be different for every computer. I don't know if they're doing a linux port, but if not you probably won't be able to play it natively on the machine. You could always stream it from a Windows computer, but…

Well, like I said the 400 series was just a heat nightmare. The 500's were better. 600 and 700 have been incredible though.

I don't know if you suggesting Nvidia has heat problems or AMD. What I do know, is that I had two gtx470's in SLI and those suckers ran at 93C at load. I love Nvidia cards, but those suckers just ran too hot. Sold them and bought a 4GB 670 superclocked for about the same performance. It runs way cooler and uses less…

I've had both in single-gpu and multi-gpu setups. I've had far less problems with nvidia cards overall. In the end, nvidia cards seem to cost more in terms of performance per dollar. It's a sacrifice I'm completely OK with. I'm an IT tech, and the last thing I want to worry about after fixing a bunch of computers at…

Probably not, but they won't be able to scale their systems any further. Thus making it so they have to switch their system entirely to upgrade at all.

Many companies bought ps3's for distributed computing. Including the Unites States Air Force: http://www.destructoid.com/us-air-force-s…

It was just a really powerful (for the price) computer at the time.

People have gotten it working simultaneously with android through chroot. But Ouya has infamously been very quiet about their bootloader and accessing it. Which is ironic and sad, because it was pitched as being uber-hackable. And to be honest, I bought mine with a $100 linux box in mind.

That's because Mac's use custom hardware, some of which is specifically required to run OSX. Which will not be the case with steam machines.

And when you get that steam machine, you'll open it and see a motherboard, cpu, gpu, ram etc etc. And if you so wish, you'll be able to install other operating systems on it. Smells like a computer with SteamOS to me.

RTA

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A steam machine is a PC running SteamOS.

Steamboxes are just going to be small form factor PC's. Potentially proprietary form factors. Regardless, a PC with SteamOS and a steam machine will have the same exact functionality.

Mad was a poorly chosen word, I meant rather did you think OEMs were also fishy.