Mostly just EU consumer protections and ease of warranty service. If you buy in the EU you should get the standard 2y consumer electronics warranty but only 1y in NA. Verifiy that you can actually get a deck in france, apparently availability is spotty. Typically warranties are handled where you bought the item too, so if you ever need to make a warranty claim you might have to send the deck to Canada if you buy it before you leave.

A big part of why Trump went full removed on Canada was that they declared the freedom convoy idiots domestic terrorists, which opened up anyone in the money pipeline that supported them to international asset freeze or seizure. Coincidentally a lot of that money came through right wing groups in the US that also funded US politicians and regressive activism.

Uhh, no thanks, I like my genitals disease free

You just have to overflow your casino balance back into the positive

I absolutely can’t wait to see the carnage in the stock market tomorrow morning

Yeah, that was my thinking too. Lilac is a generic enough platform that OEMs can do the bulk of their platform work with a lilac dev kit before they have real hardware in hand for the last 10%.

Valve hasn’t even announced their own steam machine yet have they? I’d be betting on ASUS to be first to market with whatever’s in the pipe from OEMs.

Lilac is an AMD dev platform, it’s used to do early development before you have the real platform in hand to work with. It’s been spotted in the wild running 7700 HS, 8500 U and Zen3 embedded <55W SoCs - there’s no way to extrapolate new steam hardware performance info from this reliably.

I know right, I can’t handle another round of disappointment