I've been selfishly wondering the same thing. The Frame is on my shortlist (as long as the price wasn't too crazy).

Yes, I have an older gaming PC from ~2018 that I keep putting off upgrading (first GPU prices skyrocketed, now this...) and was hoping to replace it with a Steam Machine next year. Will be endlessly bummed if that doesn't happen.

Will also be interesting if Sony/Microsoft was planning on releasing a next-gen system anytime soon, and I wonder if this will affect Apple's hardware at all.

I’m in a similar place, tried bazzite recently and was pleasantly surprised that it plays all my games well

As is mentioned in the article, depends on when they bought their DRAM contracts. If they were in before this then they'll be fine for a while.

16 gigs announced in the Steam Frame, hope they bought the memory already.