Xi3 Piston
Approx. US$1000 | xi3.com
Is this Valve’s Steam Box? Is this, at last, the fabled console from the world’s most influential game developer? No. No, it isn’t. But… is it? After all, it’s a tiny gaming PC, barely larger than a coffee mug but packing a quad-core 3.2GHz CPU, 8GB RAM, an SSD and 384-core graphics that will handle 4K resolution gaming, all from a dinky 40W power supply. It is a really impressive piece of computer engineering. But it is not the Steam Box. OK? Now, let’s fire up Steam on this thing!