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To be honest, I expected RAM prices would push back the release date. But AMD would know more about than I would.

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[โ€“] horse@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

People keep saying this, but Valve could easily prevent companies buying up Steam Machines simply by limiting purchases to a X amount per account. If they are worried about people creating burner accounts just to purchase Steam hardware, they could require the accounts to be a certain age or a minimum amount spent on Steam. Not saying they will or should do this, but they could.

That's a really interesting idea to give preference to existing steam users with a legitimate history.