First 'Steam Box (Third Party)' will be $1,000 this holliday

There are tangible benefits to both Nintendo and Apple products and neither are as astronomically overpriced as this thing. Nintendo products aren't usually overpriced at all, and Apple products are nowhere near as bad as they used to be in terms of price.

Seriously? In terms of specs, Apple laptops are grossly overpriced. I should know, I just bought one.

I didn't say they weren't.

@probablytuna: I guess they want to keep up with the current Dell / HP / etc habits.

Gamer PC? Lets marginally increase the video performance and triple the price! Building your own PC is fun (and you can take care to pick more reliable components), but popularity comes from the drastic price efficiency.

Like everyone else in the thread is saying; it would be so much easier just to build a pricey computer than can run everything.
I can only imagine the specs on this bad boy to justify the $1000 price tag.