What would be uncomfortable? Carrying a controller next to your tablet? That's what people have been saying about tablets themselves. You can always find a place in your backpack or purse. People who aren't interested in gaming would stick to their iPads, but I could easily see people interested in gaming going for a SteamOS tablet if it allowed them to play their whole Steam library on the go (apart from being a full-blown tablet obviously). I know that would be a serious argument for me considering I really miss RTS games on my consoles (my PC is too weak to handle games, it's only for work and browsing) and thinking just how cheap games are on Steam. If only it also supported Starcraft: BW and Starcraft 2... I don't think I could resist such a combo.

I really think this would be awesome and remember, this would just be the added value. The stuff you get on top of having games with the best graphics like you get nowadays. If SteamOS doesn't give us a mindblowing advantage over current PCs (so far I can't see anything of that quality), it will share the same success as nVidia Shield.

Well if you could play your steam games on it, you might have something but I don't see it appealing a massive audience!

As I've said, the casuals and Applebots would stick to their iOS stuff and this wouldn't matter. SteamOS is going after gamers, not the mass market. If I was to choose an iPad or a tablet with Steam games I wouldn't hesitate a second (granted it had a good browser and office tools). It would also be a huge incentive for console gamers to finally drop consoles and get a PC, since such a combo would finally give us something we could call truely next gen. I think it would be quite easy to get Samsung on board with this, as it would help kill one of the best departments of Sony and help kill whatever MS is trying to do with Nokia and would hurt Apple.

It would also allow Valve to draw people into their web from two different fronts - the PC/home console and the tablet crowds. No matter which way you came from, the stuff you bought is already yours on the other platform, so why not go for it? Don't know about you, but I think this is a no-brainer and the only move that can allow SteamOS appear on the radar. Still, we need tablets to make the technological jump at least to PS3 level.

The more I think about it, the more this whole SteamOS appeals to me. It can really be huge.

I think it couldn't be enough. The search for power is futile! In the end the important thing is exclusive games to the platform! You can play quite a lot of games on PC and it has many exclusive games that are excellent. But you can't play Nintendo games or Sony's first party offerings! And some of them really move consoles. Specially Nintendo games like Mario Kart, Super Smash, Mario and others. It could be an alternative to the PC but just that, an alternative. You need more than graphic power to incentivate people to invest on a system!

Well the OS seems like the best of the three announcments. The other day was an article about the Steam Machines saying that they could go from 500 US$ to1500 US$!! But what do you think about them? Do you see them as a next gen console?

Obviously, but that's what you have now and that's the reason why SteamOS as it is will do as much as nVidia Shield did to steal gamers from Vita and 3DS. And that is why I think SteamOS on tablets is so important! Why? How many gamers haven't got tablets? How many gamer's will buy a tablet in the next 5-8 years?  Which tablet will a gamer choose - an iOS or Android, or a tablet that allows him to play all PC games available on Steam? This includes the current and next gen games!! Ok, so now a gamer has a SteamOS tablet. He keeps buying those cheap games. Buys 1, 2, 3... 20, 30... games. And suddenly realises that he has a huge library of Steam games he can play on a PC. So... Why not get a Steam PC? After all he sees all the time that multiplat games are much cheaper, look better and he'll be able to play them on the go on the tablet as well... Damn... Suddenly you only care about exclusives on consoles, cause now it's REALLY pointless to buy multiplats on them.

This tablet integration would be the "more than graphic power" that Steam needs and it would be a new way to draw people into PC gaming. That's why they should go for it.

Remember, Valve is not Apple or Google. They don't want to sell their OS to the average customer. They want to give it to the gamer who's going to be buying games on Steam.

No, I view them as pre-built PC's with a custom OS.