Actually, it looks like the alienware alpha r2 only comes with M key which is incompatible with the E key of the m2 accelerator. bummer.

I've got an i7-6700T with a 4gb GTX 960, 16gb ram, and 1tb m.2 storage running blue iris with codeproject. The GPU is handling the object detection but it's surprisingly slow (~300ms +/-) I'm feeling pretty certain on getting the Coral USB accelerator but i saw the m2 accelerator with dual edge TPU ...