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Keyboard and mouse are optional with the Alpha, no other gaming PC is delivering that.Users can choose to install SteamOS on their Alienware Alpha when it's released and some users may even decide that they want to install the SteamOS beta and we say more power to them. If users want to use their Alpha system as a standard Windows desktop PC with a keyboard and mouse they can elect to do so easily from the Alpha UI, if they want to use it as a console and only play gamepad games with it then can easily do that as well.

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In the meantime, customers that have been begging for the perfect gaming capable PC for their TV will find a solution in the Alienware Alpha being offered today.The Alpha UI was designed to give gamers the option to choose what platform they want to play their games on and enable a user to have a great living room experience. Valve is solving both of these issues and that is incredibly difficult to accomplish.

The two pieces that have been really missing for PC gamers who want to play their titles in the living room are an operating system that is designed for a 10-foot experience and a controller that is compatible with games that may have been originally designed for a keyboard and mouse.

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What was left for us to solve was making Windows 8.1 a console-like experience which we showed for the first time a few weeks ago referred to as the Alpha UI.'ĭo you still believe that Valve is making a good move in launching the Linux-based SteamOS and its own controller in a bid to launch living room gaming PCs? All of the main elements were ready we have a great product in the Alpha that was purpose-built for the living room, we have plenty of content on Steam including over 3,500 games, 500 gamepad supported games and over 250 local multiplayer games, we have a great Living room GUI in Steam Big Picture and we have a very popular and successful gamepad with the Xbox 360 wireless gamepad. We couldn't think of a good reason not to deliver, so we did. We commend them for their decision and continue to work closely with them on the readying of Steam OS and the Steam Gamepad.The Alienware Alpha was ready and our customers told us that they wanted a purpose-built solution to play their favorite PC titles in their living room. Valve decided that their best course of action was to hold off on SteamOS and the Steam Gamepad until it provided their intended experience. Alienware has actually been building solutions for the living room for years with some of our previous HTPC products and then recently with the Alienware X51. 'We have been working closely with Valve to help define and build our vision for enabling gamers to play their PC games in the living room. Why did you think it was important to release the PC now and not wait for SteamOS and its controller to officially launch? It's a really exciting time to be part of this company.' The Alienware Alpha began as one of the PCs made to run Valve's SteamOS but will now be released as a Windows 8.1-based PC with your own UI. Dell has been executing the quickest that I have ever seen since my time here, we are becoming more and more agile every day and I dare say more Alienware-like :).

It is ironic coming from a private company at Alienware, being acquired by a large multi-national public company (at the time) Dell and now going back to being a private company. How has this change affected the Alienware division, if there have been any effects at all? First, It's been a year since Dell became a private company once again.

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