Hijack away, these threads get no traffic anyhow.
Personally I doubt I get a steam machine. I got 2 pc's, one for work in the den and one on the tv for gaming. I prrfer to be able to upgrade my pc than to be locked into a box that isn't upgradeable.
Steam machines can be upgraded.
Just gotta e careful about which one and what you do to upgrade it with.
Most of the ones I've seen are too small for serious upgrades to fit. Besides building a rig from scratch with tons of upgrade space is more appealing to me. I upgraded a commercial pc last year and enjoyed it so much I want to build one from scratch.
What would be the draw anyway? Truth be told, I dont see any reason to buy a machine centered around steam anyway when the PC gaming industry is MUCH larger than that single outlet. It is essentially (if I am not mistaken) a box with their OS on it something that is simply going to be limited until you get another OS.
Really, I cant think of a single advantage that it would have over just getting a normal computer