After talking to my non tech friends, I realize that the Steam Machine will still be a success.

All of the people who are into tech are dogging the price and performance of the steam machine. Myself included. Now that I talk to my more normal non techie friends I realize this thing is still going to sell out.

They are all stoked and have already pre ordered. They don't care that they could build a more powerful PC for the same price. They don't care they could just install SteamOS on any PC with an AMD GPU. They want a big company to sell them a box they can hook up to their TV and play steam games. They really really want into the Steam ecosystem with a console like device.