Best Buy has knocked $500 off the iBUYPOWER Slate, dropping the RTX 5060-powered gaming desktop to $899 — a price Tom's Hardware points out undercuts the Steam Machine.

The spec sheet covers the mainstream-gaming essentials: an RTX 5060 GPU, a Ryzen 5 processor, 16GB of DDR5 memory, and a 1TB SSD. That's a balanced 1080p-and-beyond configuration with no obvious bottleneck for the price bracket, and the DDR5 platform leaves a sensible upgrade path.

The Steam Machine comparison is the interesting frame. Valve's re-entry into living-room PC hardware has reset expectations for what a turnkey gaming box should cost, and discounted prebuilts like this one are the traditional PC market's counterpunch: full Windows flexibility, a discrete current-generation GPU, and standard upgradeable parts for less money.

As with any doorbuster-grade prebuilt discount, the usual advice applies — these cuts tend to be inventory-driven and short-lived. At $899 with a 50-series card inside, this one is unlikely to sit around.