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The article mentions some prices but never presents an apples to apples comparison between the price for a similarly configured device with windows and steamOS.

I’m curious to know how much Microsoft charges for these licenses

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The Legion Go S with Windows will cost $599 and the Legion Go S with SteamOS will cost $499. I suppose those will be the same hardware wise. So a $100 difference

https://www.tomsguide.com/gaming/handheld-gaming/lenovo-legi...

wow, this is a good promotion for SteamOS models, as pre-install windows license should cost Lenovo $5 or less afaik.

I guess part of it is that users vaguely know how much the windows license costs them and will accept that kinda price increase on top for windows?

very comfortable margin for Lenovo there

People may also be under the impression that Microsoft charges a similar price for Windows as they do to individuals. Which is about $180 for Home edition in my country, Brazil.

Windows version of the handheld will have 500gb more storage than SteamOS.

The Windows version has a 1TB SSD while the SteamOS version has a 512GB SSD. A guy on YouTube speculated that this is because a modern Windows install needs 200GB of space. I have no idea if that is true. I don’t use Windows.

It's not really a cost issue. Windows UX sucks on small handhelds. It's just not made for that form factor. SteamOS was.

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