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[CES 2014] CyberPower Inc. has a treat for the gaming masses at CES this year, where they hope to change the way your living room “plays” this year through the debut of their stylish Steam Machine series. Running on the Steam OS by Valve Corporation, the CYBERPOWERPC Steam Machine will come with the kind of hardware which delivers a full desktop PC performance without looking out of place. No sir, it will in fact, come in an advance stylish form factor. With the revolutionary Steam OS, you will be able to have full control over your entire Steam game library right from the living room itself.

All of the Steam Machines will be powered by the most recent version of Steam OS, which happens to be an open source Linux-based operating system that was specially developed for gaming and other entertainment purposes. These new systems will instantly be able to handle the hundreds of games that currently run in the Steam catalog, in addition to upcoming titles from other developers. Hardware specifications include high-density storage, wireless connectivity via Bluetooth and WiFi, and USB 3.0. You will find the Steam Controller to be truly unique, as it boasts of a couple of circular, clickable trackpads with a touchscreen right smack in the middle. Depending on the final configuration, the CYBERPOWERPC Steam Machine will cost anywhere from $499 to $699.

CYBERPOWERPC Unveils Steam OS Powered Gaming System original content from Ubergizmo.

The Outlier blog by OPower measured the electricity used by current generation smartphones, and what they found is encouraging for efficient power consumption: the new iPhone 5 only uses 3.5kWh (Kilowatt Hours) and the Samsung Galaxy S3 checks in a little higher, at 4.9kWh. The good news? Both of those figures are tiny compared to the total power used by other appliances, and for a year at current market prices, is really cheap. The iPhone costs $0.41 per year to charge and the Galaxy S3 costs $0.53. By comparison, an average laptop uses around $8 of electricity per year. On the other hand, you’ve got to agknowledge that the cloud services and supercomputers that make smartphones useful do use a lot of electricity. But it’s nice to see that the low power ARM processors that smartphones use actually do make a big difference in power consumption.

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