Alienware is an American computer hardware company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, Inc. It mainly produces desktops and laptops designed for high-performance gaming and graphically intense applications such as video editing, simulation, and audio editing. Alienware also offers for sale computer peripherals, such as headsets, computer mice, monitors and keyboards. In the 2008Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a prototype was presented of what is being described as a "giant 'curved' widescreen", i.e. a display which would be equivalent in size to two, slightly bent 24-inch LCD screens glued together.
Alienware was founded in 1996 by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila. Alienware's corporate headquarters is located in Kendall, Florida, an unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County west of the city of Miami.
