Alienware Alpha R2

Alienware's first Alpha systems were the poster boy for the Steam Machine project. A well-known gaming company, producing a first-rate machine, with everyone's favorite platform – what's not to love?Well, as it turned out, quite a bit. The Linux-based...

Alienware has achieved something impressive here. But the noise is distracting and the price is very high. We're also expecting competitors to hit the market...

The Alpha R2's three main negatives are excessive fan noise, the inclusion of a mechanical hard-disk drive as standard and a $300 price hike for Aussies. HDDs as primary drives just stink. Sure, you can fix the hard drive issue, but you'll pay for it....

Alienware's revised Alpha R2 jams in enough gaming horsepower to crush current game consoles, but its fan noise keeps it from being a small wonder.

The Alienware Alpha R2 is a very attractive proposition as a standalone couch-gaming PC, given its small stature and the amount of power that it packs into that tiny chassis. It's the kind of machine that would find a home next to a big-screen 1080p or...

The Alienware Alpha R2 is Alienware's olive branch to the console gamer. It delivers the creature comforts of a console while sneaking a powerful PC into the mix. That means that when you aren't gaming, listening to music or watching a movie, you can...

Alienware adds more capable graphics (and external-graphics support!) to its set-top-box-shaped gaming desktop. It's slick and a capable 1080p gamer, but we'd suggest making sure you choose a solid-state storage option. Read...