Hardwaremaker Xi3 has announced that it has begun accepting preorders for the Piston. The console is meant for gaming via the Steam service from Valve. A Piston goes almost 1000 dollar fee, get the early adopters currently $ 100 discount.
Xi3 to let you know that customers that the Piston order now in addition to a discount of $ 100 the device for the holidays will get. It seems that Xi3 is still busy with the setting up of the production. Incidentally, the manufacturer is planning for the device to show during the SXSW Gaming Expo that is currently going on.
The Piston is a gaming-console that Steam games in Big Picture mode can be run, a special user interface that Valve has developed for so-called Steam Boxes. In the case of the Piston has Xi3 unspecied 3.2 GHz-quadcore-processor built-in with 8GB of ram. Storage is provided by an ssd with a capacity of 128GB, though you may purchase a 256GB or 512GB variant to be built. The Piston cost is respectively 340 or $ 750 more.
During the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the housing of the Piston already shown, but when there was no demonstration given. During SXSW is the Steam console or working shown. The Piston was developed after an investment from Valve. That let previously know this year, no Steam Box on the market.
