either really, there were 2 steam machines I saw that where $500 and seemed like pretty good deals. If you want you could get a better deal by waiting for sales and combo deals otherwise I think it would be cool to have a steam machine plus they come with the controller which I'm interested in. The downside being I'm not sure how upgrading will work with them, they are compact boxes so upgrades may be complicated. You can easily install windows on it, or just put steam OS on your pc.