Alienware Alpha review | Digital Foundry
Eurogamer:
"When Valve decided to postpone its Steam Machines initiative, its hardware partners were left in a difficult position – hold back on their living room-friendly PCs and wait for the final SteamOS and controller, or repackage their offerings as more traditional Windows-orientated PCs? Alienware went for the latter with its innovative Alpha console/PC hybrid, going to the trouble of engineering its own console-style user interface in order to make the machine fully operable without mouse and keyboard. The bolt-on UI is a bit of a kludge to be honest – and that's a shame, as the hardware design story here is quite remarkable."
