Originally Posted by
Hayden Dingman @ PCWorld
Start your clocks, folks: You have nine months to save up the (presumably prodigious amount of) money needed to buy Alienware's shiny new Steam Machine. On Friday the company announced a September launch for its upcoming box, which Valve managing director Gabe Newell called the “full potential of what a Steam Machine should be.”
The details came out of Valve's Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle—a mystical gathering of developers, secluded in a conference room learning all of Valve's secrets...and then tweeting them out to the world, thank goodness.
We also got the barest of bare details on specs, courtesy of Hot Blooded Games CFO Dave Oshry. Alienware's Steam Machine is, as expected, Intel- and Nvidia-based, with a Haswell-generation processor—and that's all Alienware said. While other companies boasted about their specs last week, Alienware is still keeping a tight lid on its own machine. I can't imagine that it's higher-powered than Origin's dual-Titan Steam Machine (named Chronos), but we'll have to wait and see.
Alienware's SteamBox is given a Release date.
