Baden of WGB: "I’m extremely lucky to get a variety of games, keyboards, mice and headsets to play with and review, letting me experience products I would likely have never gotten to even touch otherwise because I have a bank account filled to the brim with metaphorical moths. I never thought I’d get to take a shot at reviewing an entire computer, let alone a rather expensive one from Alienware. It’s an entirely new experience for me, leaving me wondering exactly how to tackle the challenge and deliver some worthwhile criticism. Without further ado, then, here is my attempt at not looking like a complete tit while reviewing Alienware’s latest iteration of their X51, having spent two weeks with it as my main computer."
VRFocus: Alienware, a subsidiary of Dell, has today launched the official pre-order campaign for its line of ‘Oculus Ready’ PCs. Itself billing the machines as ‘VR Capable’, Alienware has two systems in the range at present based on Intel i5 and Intel i7 processors.
Maximum PC: It was three years ago to the day that we posted our review of Dell's Alienware X51 PC game console to the website, which we called "impressively powerful for its size." That was true at the time, though in the fast moving world of technology, the system's Core i5-2320 CPU paired with a GeForce GTX 555 graphics card is nothing to get excited over today.
Engadget - While the Alienware X51 has been slated by Valve as a currently available Steambox, consumers still have to get rid of that pesky Windows to install the Linux-driven platform. As we've seen with the Razer Edge, a Windows 8-powered gaming system just doesn't work well for living rooms because it still needs an interface that's not a game controller. Fortunately, that barrier is slowly evaporating as the Dell-owned commodity is now providing Ubuntu as an OS option for the X51, paving the way for easier Steambox modification in the future.
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