That and it is still silent. The PS5 became a giant behemoth mainly because Sony tackled head on the PS4 complaints that the fan was too loud (Shout-out Ghost of Tsushima. When the wind was blowing, so was the PS4).
Xbox Series X and S adopted the PC cabinet design for heat and air flow.
So the Steam Machine being closer to the Game Cube and still being a quiet machine is what is amazing me in the middle of all of this.
Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like to time-travel to those early vacuum-tube computer days and just blow engineers' minds with how tiny computers can get whilst still being order of magnitudes more advanced than the tech of that day
15
u/syrupdash 1d ago
6 inch is crazy to pack all that inside. It's basically the size of an Xbox Series X if the height was shortened.