Dell to Buy Alienware?

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."

Comments

Upside/Downside

[RancidMilk]

On the down side, Alienware gets outsourced to india, America loses yet another company, and Best Buy has to find a new gaming rig to sell. On the plus side, we get to talk to those people that can't speak English and we get 20% off for doing it... Well, at least we get 20% off.

Re:Model seen in auto industry

[Gothmolly]

Insightful, if true. Except the opposite is true, Jaguar (and I believe Lincoln too) bleeds money for Ford, and GM is hemmoraging all over the place. Your logic works for Japanese cars, i.e. s/Toyota/Lexus, because the quality of the low-end brand is good, and the features of the high-end are worth the cake. Who wants to shell out 100,000 USD for a piece of American crap?

Death of Aliens reported

[olivercromwell]

If Dell has bought them, it will sound the death toll for them. Dell sucks. Always has, always will.

(OT) - what it means

[Red Flayer]

Hey mods, I mark (OT) or (O/T) for posts that are offtopic to the main thread, I do this so no one wastes mod points on them (unless of course they want to reinforce the (OT) by modding it Off-topic). So maybe if you see comments with that in the subject line, it would be best to ignore them -- unless somehow it gets back ontopic.

Really, the parent of this post shouldn't have gotten a single positive mod.
It was intended only for the couple people involved in the grammar sub-thread.