This box is going to be far faster than even the new RPi 4 8gb model.

And besides, I have an RPi 3, right now.

It doesn’t work. Crashes within 60 seconds of boot.

It is the power supply? I’ve already replaced it once. Is it the SD card? I don’t know. Should I disassemble my case and move my CPU fan off the 5 volt connector to the 3 volt connector? Maybe, but I haven’t bothered to try.

Why? Because I have a life. I work 13-hour days. I have other things to do with my life besides futz with shitty, finicky Linux boxes.

Let me be clear:

I don’t want to buy a Linux box.

I want to buy back my own limited, valuable time, plus a Linux box. I want time, plus a fast Linux box. A Linux box that just works, no muss, no fuss, no configuration, no futzing, right out of the fucking box.

I want to buy time. I want to buy convenience. I want to buy ease of use, warranty support, technical support. I want a pretested, pre-configured system that works when I plug it in and turn it on. I don’t have time to troubleshoot a home-brew.

This Atari box is promising to be all this and more.

A built-in Windows 10 sandbox. Built-in multi-OS compatibility. Steam should work on this. I don’t have futz around with hooking/unhooking my gaming laptop from the TV anymore. The Atari VCS is hooked up, all the time. On my TVs, I will be able to switch instantly… from native Netflix, and YouTube apps in full 4k, to Windows 10, to Linux, to Chrome OS, to Atari OS. I can run Steam. The potential for indy games on this thing is huge, if Atari plays it right.

This appears to be the first real all-in-one box for the modern era living room. If there is another box, promising these features, with zero home-brewing, building, configuration, or testing needed on my part after purchase… I don’t know what that is.

The homebrew community is great, but they honestly cannot comprehend why someone might want to pay for someone else to do the basic system configuration, so we don’t have to.

This box is claiming to have done this. Time will tell. But if they have succeeded in what they claim, I’ll probably be buying two.