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Old 2006-03-14, 02:13 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Dell Buys Alienware?


http://news.designtechnica.com/article9772.html

Interesting if true.
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Old 2006-03-14, 02:23 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Dude that would be cool but prices might go up. I am in thte future prolly going to buy a Alienware or a XPS dell but mabe soon one and the same. Desktop only.
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Old 2006-03-14, 02:24 PM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Dude that would be cool but prices might go up. I am in thte future prolly going to buy a Alienware or a XPS dell but mabe soon one and the same. Desktop only.
Overpriced computers for the win.
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Old 2006-03-14, 02:24 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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Well... it will either do two things...

1. Improve the quality of DELL PC's...

2. Send alienware into a downward spiral of shittyness.


I just hope that alienware PC's will still be able to be upgraded without buying overpriced parts from DELL like they do with their PC's.
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Old 2006-03-14, 02:27 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Originally Posted by Giovanni
2. Send alienware into a downward spiral of shittyness.
You mean it hasn't been sent yet?
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Old 2006-03-14, 04:39 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Originally Posted by Giovanni
Well... it will either do two things...

1. Improve the quality of DELL PC's...

2. Send alienware into a downward spiral of shittyness.


I just hope that alienware PC's will still be able to be upgraded without buying overpriced parts from DELL like they do with their PC's.


IMO Alienware has always been for shittier than even Dell.
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Old 2006-03-14, 03:28 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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Dell recently put a bid on my penis, but I rejected the offer. But I havent accepted yet. Holding out for a better offer.
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Old 2006-03-14, 05:11 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Originally Posted by OneManArmy
Dell recently put a bid on my penis, but I rejected the offer. But I havent accepted yet. Holding out for a better offer.
I'll offer to rock your world. And that's a promise.
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Old 2006-03-14, 07:03 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Have all dells where I work - can't complain.

Only build my own stuff at home though.
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Old 2006-03-14, 04:05 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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I got a new dell this past christams, and Im pretty happy with it for the price I paid, I havent had a single problem yet, and it seems to be quite reliable, only froze once or twice...
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Old 2006-03-14, 04:53 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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Alienware really isn't anything special. They just take the very best on the market, put it into a flashy case, and charge you double what you would spend if you'd actually bought the components and built it yourself.

If you don't know how to screw a motherboard into a case and drop some parts into it, you're welcome to rape your wallet buying Alienware. There's lots of companies out there that can build a similar system minus several hundred bucks and an alien logo.

As for Dell, they don't overcharge so much as they force you into upgrading through them at their prices (examples, RD RAM installed into your computer, CPUs soldered into circuit board with custom sockets) And while they don't particularly overprice, they do have a habit of lagging behind the rest of the industry in bringing release prices down, thus when you want to upgrade to that new CPU (and you're forced to buy Dell's modified chip) you'll be paying prices that have long since dropped on newegg.com.
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Old 2006-03-15, 10:36 AM   [Ignore Me] #12
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Dell has denied it:
http://www.cnet.com.au/desktops/pcs/...0061082,00.htm
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Old 2006-03-15, 10:42 AM   [Ignore Me] #13
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Well it was PR for both companies.
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Old 2006-03-15, 11:15 AM   [Ignore Me] #14
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Aye - their Websites look very similar:

http://www.alienware.com/
http://www.dell.com/
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Old 2006-03-15, 03:00 PM   [Ignore Me] #15
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I love how Dell thinks they are in with the cool crowd. THey are like the laughing stock of the computer world. Yea they are big. But its almost like buying a mac.
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