This was coming and now its here. Alienware’s new consoles for gaming on Steam will be making its debut next month, the gaming PC division of Dell announced on the new device a few days back just in time for the holiday season sales. Alienware and Valve combined forces to custom-build a machine designed around the experience of SteamOS. The Alienware Steam Machine combines PC flexibility with console simplicity, and delivers everything you love about Steam into a whole new environment. The small footprint and whisper-quiet operation assimilates into your living room for a social experience that doesn’t sacrifice performance. You can control your game with the Steam Controller and is completely customisable with functionality to explore everything Steam has to offer on the big screen TV.
The Steam Controller puts functionality in your hands without the keyboard. Featuring dual trackpads, HD haptic feedback, dual-stage triggers, back grip buttons and fully customisable control schemes, you’re also free to find your favorite mappings in the Steam community or create and share your own.
As for the hardware, it runs on intel core chipsets with 4GB DDR memory, graphics is powered by NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU 2GB GDDR5, to load up all those files there is ample space with 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s drive.
In terms of ports:
External Chassis Connections
2x USB 2.0 (Front)
2x USB 3.0 (Back)
1x RJ45 GbE
1x HDMI-Out 1.4a
1x HDMI-In
1x optical audio out (Toslink)
1x DC in
Internal Chassis Connections
1x USB 2.0 – Tool-less access via bottom door
AlienFX Lighting Zones
2 Zones (Triangle and Alienhead)
Dimensions & Weight
Height: 3″ (76.2mm)
Width: 8″ (203.2mm)
Depth: 8″ (203.2mm)
Starting Weight: 4.4lbs. (2kg)
The latest hardware from Alienware will retail at $499 for the 4th Genreration i3 and there is the i5 and i7, bundle offers are available with bonus content and free titles also includes free to play titles Brawlhala and WarThinder with special in-game items like an Alienware-branded skin and 200 Mammoth Coins in Brawlhalla and M18 Black Cat Tank and XP-38G Lighting plane in Warthunder, as well as an Alienware exclusive demo of Coffin Dodgers and other cool in-game items. But not confirmed if they are just for US the market though.
