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Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld
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this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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Is there any logical reason for the Windows version to have more storage? What is that about?
Masking the cost of the Windows license is my guess.
Microsoft has weird rules with OEMs about selling the same hardware without a Windows license. This might be a way around it.
Why would they want to do that? Like, if I'm Lenovo, I'm genuinely excited about this, and want people to buy it. They can pocket the difference on the Windows license while selling more units because the product is more attractive. They have no reason to actively encourage people to stick with Windows, unless MS is paying them to?
It really just seems like an experiment for them. I hope people buy them...
Probably don't want to antagonize MS, but don't know how things work at this level, so just randomly guessing.
Storage is cheap, windows licensing is expensive, maybe Lenovo is trying to add value for the people who want to stick to Windows
Probably not, though. Hopefully it's repairable/upgradable.
Why would they do that?
No idea, hence my "probably not"
A deal with Microsoft, maybe?
Yeah looks like the drive is one of those smol m.2 sticks so you should be able to swap it out, as long as you can reinstall steam os on the new one. Can’t imagine that would be an issue tbh.
Must need it to fit all that bloatware lmao
To hide the license cost for Windows.
That extra 512GB storage costs ~$30 or so but I doubt average consumer has any idea about that.
Also there's the thing that Windows alone requires like 100GB space...
No it doesn’t? The minimum spec says 64gb of storage, but windows itself takes 20-30gb.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications
100GB was a decent approximation then, only 50% over the actual minimum spec