We open up our Alienware Alpha to upgrade its CPU, RAM, and hard drive. Alienware has announced its Steam Machine, which is based on its Alpha infastructure, will be launching later this year.

I just got a little Alienware Alpha R2 (Win10 pro, SSD boot drive) and it's pretty slick. I was surprised though that it didn't come installed with the Hivemind UI and configured with console/desktop ...