The Playnix Console is a €1,179 Linux-powered gaming machine with an RX 9060 XT inside.
  • network_switch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    53 minutes

    I wish them success so that they can scale up and provide good customer service

  • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgEnglish
    24 minutes

    I think I’m kind of fucked. I Am forever lost in the depths of Linux. I just read the headline and thought to myself “Who the fuck pays for a Linux terminal and what does it have to do with emulators?”

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.comEnglish
    8 hours

    Awesome, glad they’re doing it.

    The problem is the price and the timeframe. The next batch is available next May?

    For that price, more than a year from now, you’ll likely be able to assemble or purchase a small form factor PC and build it out with similar or better components for significantly cheaper.

  • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
    11 hours

    Man its gotta be a tough time to launch a console that can be cost competitive.

    • ogeist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 hours

      I gotta say, business wise they are handling it well IMO, although who knows if it will work on yhe long run.

      Due to high demand, Playnix Console will be sold in monthly batches and to offer you the best possible price, we adjust the cost of each batch based on the actual price of components (especially RAM) at the time of manufacturing. This means the price may vary from one batch to the next.

      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2 hours

        At this point selling PCs without ram & storage is starting to sound like a reasonable thing. Especially as they claim it’s “upgradeable” as one of their major selling points and it uses standard DDR4 ram and NVME SSDs, so many people interested have spares from old builds collecting dust.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9 hours

        So far they’ve sold out the first three batches already, so either they’re lowballing their production runs or demand is strong.

  • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    8 hours

    Bad time to be doing this, the specs are lower than my tablet I dropped $800 on a few years ago.

    Before anyone drops a console they need to wait for the RAM to stop being $500+ and a decent sized SSD costing more.

    I even looked at sd cards to slap in the slot and move my media off the drive and those had also doubled in price over the time period they’d normally have halved the cost of a larger one.

        • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6 hours

          I mean that is true, but still nowhere near the same thing as 16GB ram and 16GB dedicated vram. This thing has a 9070xt and a 600W PSU, so the other commenters claim that they have a higher specced tablet is just kind of absurd, especially since I don’t believe there’s a tablet in existence with discrete graphics. And even if it did, beating a recent gen card like a 9070 would be a really tall order.

          • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comEnglish
            4 hours

            yeah for sure it’s not comparable compute power but you asked 🤷‍♀️

            • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2 hours

              Gotcha, I meant it more as a rhetorical question meant to point out that no tablet has 16GB of vram, so it kinda misses my point to talk about ones with 16GB combined ram.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      6 hours

      I’ll disagree on the ssd part. I got a refurbished deck and have no issues with load times from the micro sd. But big yeah on the ram.