Alienware Alpha, The console killer - E3 2014 - RE-UPLOAD
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of E3 2014 is brought to you by hyperx Fury series
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high performance ssds the Corsair Vengeance k70 and k90 RGB mechanical
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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
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favorite thing about this machine uh favorite thing about the machine is just
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the size I mean look at how incredibly small this system is and the performance
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is just unbelievable on this machine so we're featuring Intel Haswell based core
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I3 Core i5 and core i7 processor so we got dual core and quad core first
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configuration the entry configuration of this is going to have 4 GB of memory on
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it and it'll have a 500 gig hard drive and it's going to come bundled with an
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Xbox 360 Gamepad for $549 but you'll also be able to go up to
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2 terabytes of hard drive space if you want on this product you can get quad
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core i5 and i7 processors if you want on here you can go to 8 gigs of memory all
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of them are going to come with um a custom Maxwell based NVIDIA Graphics
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chip we designed with NVIDIA for this product uh and each of the um the gra
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and the graphics will have 2 GB of gddr5 uh memory dedicated to it that's awesome
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and while it might not be designed for it due to very very very small form
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Factory in comparison to even the next gen consoles that we have you can
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upgrade this thing correct you can upgrade it correct pretty much everything is upgradeable on here except
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for the graphics chip the graphics chip was again custom design with between
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NVIDIA and us so it's built into the uh motherboard of the product but if you
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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
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RAM already even your wireless card they're all interchangeable on here we
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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
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really small really efficient um and to be a a product that you could put in
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your living room and under your TV but um there's nothing that's in here that
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prevents you from upgrading if you wanted to do so I think our guys will
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take that challenge I don't think they're too worried um now it's it's not
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going to be Steam OS ready because Steam OS is not ready but what is this going to ship with in terms of operating
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system right so Steam OS and the steam Gamepad are delayed until next year so
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we're going to be uh we're shipping it um this year before the end of the year
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using Windows but we've put a custom guey on top of Windows that will give
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you a full console experience so it will not ship with a keyboard and mouse it'll
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only ship with the Xbox 360 Gamepad if you have Xbox 360 gam pads already you
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can attach them to this box you don't have to reinvest in in new game pads
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with this which is really cool um and it'll be fully navigable the entire OS
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experience will be fully navigable with the GamePad if you want to use it as a
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desktop PC and use a keyboard and you can absolutely do that as well we're
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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
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just giving you the option to use it as a Gamepad Only Solution if you want to
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do so now if someone is interested in Steam OS if they pick this up now it's
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going to come with Windows and they'll be able to upgrade this later correct absolutely so uh once Steam OS is
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finally out or if you want to load the beta you absolutely can load it on this system will not void your warranty by
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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
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the Xbox 360 Gamepad it also works with Logitech Gamepad and a few others so uh
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this is uh Steam OS ready exactly I know a lot of guys out there were a little
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bit hesitant when they first started hearing about these pre-built Steam OS boxes coming out or in this case a
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Windows OS box because they're like oh why don't I build my own this has a
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compelling value due to stuff like form factor and price which is actually very
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impressive so thanks for showing me this today I'll I got to go on and check out
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to hyperx for sending us here thanks to Corsair for sending us here and thanks
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for NCIX for this here I'll see you guys next time