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all right guys I'm here at Alienware with Frank and he's going to tell us all about the Alienware Alpha what is your
favorite thing about this machine uh favorite thing about the machine is just
the size I mean look at how incredibly small this system is and the performance
is just unbelievable on this machine so we're featuring Intel Haswell based core
I3 Core i5 and core i7 processor so we got dual core and quad core first
configuration the entry configuration of this is going to have 4 GB of memory on
it and it'll have a 500 gig hard drive and it's going to come bundled with an
Xbox 360 Gamepad for $549 but you'll also be able to go up to
2 terabytes of hard drive space if you want on this product you can get quad
core i5 and i7 processors if you want on here you can go to 8 gigs of memory all
of them are going to come with um a custom Maxwell based NVIDIA Graphics
chip we designed with NVIDIA for this product uh and each of the um the gra
and the graphics will have 2 GB of gddr5 uh memory dedicated to it that's awesome
and while it might not be designed for it due to very very very small form
Factory in comparison to even the next gen consoles that we have you can
upgrade this thing correct you can upgrade it correct pretty much everything is upgradeable on here except
for the graphics chip the graphics chip was again custom design with between
NVIDIA and us so it's built into the uh motherboard of the product but if you
want to change out your hard drive you want to change your memory you want to change your CPU even your ra um I said a
RAM already even your wireless card they're all interchangeable on here we
didn't design it so it could be easily upgradeable like we do on all of our other desktops uh we designed this to be
really small really efficient um and to be a a product that you could put in
your living room and under your TV but um there's nothing that's in here that
prevents you from upgrading if you wanted to do so I think our guys will
take that challenge I don't think they're too worried um now it's it's not
going to be Steam OS ready because Steam OS is not ready but what is this going to ship with in terms of operating
system right so Steam OS and the steam Gamepad are delayed until next year so
we're going to be uh we're shipping it um this year before the end of the year
using Windows but we've put a custom guey on top of Windows that will give
you a full console experience so it will not ship with a keyboard and mouse it'll
only ship with the Xbox 360 Gamepad if you have Xbox 360 gam pads already you
can attach them to this box you don't have to reinvest in in new game pads
with this which is really cool um and it'll be fully navigable the entire OS
experience will be fully navigable with the GamePad if you want to use it as a
desktop PC and use a keyboard and you can absolutely do that as well we're
open we're flexible we're not telling you what you can't do you can do anything you want with this box we're
just giving you the option to use it as a Gamepad Only Solution if you want to
do so now if someone is interested in Steam OS if they pick this up now it's
going to come with Windows and they'll be able to upgrade this later correct absolutely so uh once Steam OS is
finally out or if you want to load the beta you absolutely can load it on this system will not void your warranty by
any means we support it will even help you do it if you need instructions on how to do it um Steam OS also works with
the Xbox 360 Gamepad it also works with Logitech Gamepad and a few others so uh
this is uh Steam OS ready exactly I know a lot of guys out there were a little
bit hesitant when they first started hearing about these pre-built Steam OS boxes coming out or in this case a
Windows OS box because they're like oh why don't I build my own this has a
compelling value due to stuff like form factor and price which is actually very
impressive so thanks for showing me this today I'll I got to go on and check out
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