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Valve's 'steambox' name and details released at CES
By: Cade
Finally, the long awaited details of the glorious 'steambox' have been revealed by Xi3 and Steam at the Consumer Electronics Show. The small linux box has been named 'Piston' and will be modeled after Xi3's X7A mini-computer.

CMO of Xi3, David Politis, says the new Piston will offer 1 TB of internal storage and the parts inside, such as the CPU and RAM are upgradable.

Xi3 kept its mouth shut about the prices of the Piston, but it should be based off of it's X7A mini-computer which comes in at about $1000.

The demo unit of the Piston at CES was packed with an IO board with one ethernet port, 1/8" audio in/out, SPDIF optical audio, four USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports (with one dedicated to keyboard input), four eSATAp ports, two Mini Display Port ports and one DisplayPort/HDMI port.


Here's the video, because apparently four paragraphs is too much to read.


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Credit to Polygon for images and technical specifications.

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