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Dell to Buy Alienware?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-only-one-marketing-dept-will-ignore-my-emails dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Well, looks like rumors are flying, and Dell may have bought Alienware according to an article on cnet. It really would fit Dell well. They are the last big manufacturer not to use AMD, and this would fill that void. Acquiring this company would also help them grow their business to where they want it to be ($80 billion anually). One can only hope that Alienware support and hardware won't be ill effected by this acquisition."

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  1. Nothing but smiles here... by AnomaliesAndrew · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I got a P4 3.2 w/ HT system, stacked, GeForceFX 5900Ultra, 1GB DDR2, fan kit, SATA RAID0 with 2x Raptors, etc... as a free perk from my company, purchased from Alienware.

    I've never had a problem with it in the 2.5 years I've owned it, and it's been my main system, on almost 24/7. Even with my high demand use (music production, gaming, etc), I still find no reason to upgrade at this point in time.

    Since cost was not an issue for me, and nothing ever gave me a hint of a problem, I've got nothing but good words for Alienware. It's a sexy box and it runs circles around any system my friends buy new today still.

    Y'all are just haters! But, I have heard some gripes about their laptops, particularly with the graphics cards frying and pixels going bad. What could you expect from a mobile device though? I want one of the Lenovo ThinkPad Notepads, but I'm worried about pixels dying and the Chinese government putting back doors in it.

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