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Dell fights Alien Invasion

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the beware-the-grays dept.

Asakawa writes "With manufacturers like Alienware and Voodoo sucking up the low-volume/high-margin high-end gaming market, it looks like Dell wants a piece of the action. The machine that these guys have reviewed looks pretty awesome, but they reckon it's overpriced. It will be interesting to see if Dell can shake off its grey box image and entice the more fussy gamers and enthusias."

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  1. Low volume high margin? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean Voodoo and Alienware are the Apples of the PC world?

  2. The question is.... by batkins · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...do we really want enthusias?

    (FP!)

  3. Gamers want... by Glock27 · · Score: 3, Funny
    It will be interesting to see if Dell can shake off it's grey box image and entice the more fussy gamers and enthusias[ts].

    Gamers want the best - and right now that's AMD Athlon 64 (FX). Until Dell has that, they're stuff looks rather Dull. ;-)

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  4. From what I know of Alien invasions... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Dell will have to start selling Powerbooks or hope the aliens haven't developed immunity to Earth bacteria and die off naturally.

  5. Oooh! A it's like a Lamborghini made by Yugo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Nuff said.

  6. What does XPS stand for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's Dell, so probably only one of two things:

    Xtreme Piece of Shit
    Xtremely Poor Support

  7. Something equally interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    It will be interesting to see if Dell can shake off it's grey box image

    It will be interesting to see how long it takes CmdrTaco to learn to spell "its".

  8. OT: That's the *THIRD* Alien Invasion ... by torpor · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... Headline I've read today.

    First was this one on CNN. .. then this one ...

    And now another here on slashdot.

    Someone would say there must be some sort of psy-ops going on, to soften us up for the headlines ...

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  9. Re:Even the G5 is cheaper ! by mrpuffypants · · Score: 2, Funny

    alas, that still seems like a bit too much hardware to play the big three Mac games:

    -Breakout
    -Super Breakout
    -Photoshop

    Befor ya'll go crazy, now, remember; I'm a Mac user too :)

  10. Re:Sorry, Dell. No sale here. by Quarters · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yeah! Right on! Me Too!

    I want my super-upber-high-end gaming PC to ship with Linux so I can stress it its limits with the absolute latest, bleeding edge, hard core Linux based games...

    ...like Tux Racer.

  11. Re:Inspiron XPS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You say this like there are games for the PowerBook

  12. Re:Clones by FEEBLE*BMX · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's a GAMING network cable.