Valve Announces the Steam Machine

[The Minsky Moment]

I haven't looked into it thoroughly, since disabling wifi connection was a sufficient fix for my needs.

Steam family sharing is pretty easy to set up and it works great. Not only allows simultaneous gaming (as long as the games aren't identical) but separate cloud saves for each family member.

[celedhring]

My holy grail device would be a Steam Deck where I can also install basic productivity/entertainment software (although I guess you can already fool around with WINE on the current steam deck?), or an iPad where I can run PC games.

[The Minsky Moment]

You can install just about any application you want on a Steam Deck that runs in Arch Linux.

Alternatively, you can set up a dual boot of Windows and just install Windows applications.

Plug it in a dock and voila.

[viper37]

I'm quite excited to finally have a steam deck without the portability.

I wasn't being sarcastic. I have no use for a portable system.

Oh, sorry.

I fail to see the use beyond a PC.  Install Linux Mint, Steam a few software to bypass those annoying launchers and you're good to go with much more performance.