Disappointing article, ars is using desktop-vlass hardware to calculate the pricing, butthe steam machine is using laptop parts (CPU, GPU, and RAM).
This is an entry-level level PC, 700 is way too much, other entry-level miniPCs, which are between 500 and 600.
The linked reddit post (why couldn’t he just link yo the original video content? ) does a much better job reasoning about the bill of materials and comparing it against other products
Vates demoed on kubecon an ARM workstation running XCP-ng, a xen-based virtualization platform.
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/11/13/xcp-ng-on-arm-with-ampere/
It’s still early days, but I’m hoping it can reach homelabs, the big question being hardware enablement, which is difficult on ARM baseboards due to lack of standardization.
Disclaimer: I work with Vates, and prepared some component to compile under ARM to prepare the demo.
I give them less than a year to turn sour and start “pivoting to a new strategy”
To be exact, they are empowering Microsoft future. This is because of the absolute insane amount of money they are pumping into LLMs while still not finding a business case for them.
I know, yes. But I’m talking about virtualization, not containerizarion
Personally, I want to properly isolate the services with virtualization. The main reason is I expose some of the services online, and I don’t t want to only rely on keeping all software up-to-date at all times. This allows me to limit the damage if one of the services is compromised.
I wouldn’t use MacOS as the virtualization platform, and instead use something else, like BSD, Linux, or xen-based for my servers
It is with plugins, however. I’ve used neovim for years at work and it has LSP capabilities and grammar-based syntax parsing. So it provides lots of IDE-like features on top of its excellent text-editing features. Nevwrmind that it integrates with the terminal much better than IDEs.
So I couldn’t disagree more with your statement