Mark Vena on Dellienware

Edison Trent writes "Tom's Hardware has a piece up on the acquisition of Alienware by Dell in which they've interviewed Mark Vena, Alienware's VP of Marketing, who spilled some interesting beans on the acquisition. Among them is the fact that Michael Dell himself (aka Mr Steve Jobs-alike) supposedly led the acquisition from the beginning (will this force out Alienware management later?), and that Dell will be handling all of Alienwares supplier relationships, including that with AMD. In the more mundane and day to day changes Dell will also be backing Alienware financing of their expensive machines, which is something Alienware couldn't have done before on its own and because Dell will be handling all of Alienwares suppliers the company expects to get more allocation of scarce products such as new graphics cards and ordering an Alienware will no longer be like putting in an order for a car in East Germany."

Comments

Re:Why?

[timeOday]

In a world where hardware that is a success is simple, sleek and nice to look at, why oh why would someone want one of the hideous things from Alienware.

So what gaming rig is it you want everybody to buy? A Mac Mini?

Re:Why?

[fa_king]

No, just a simple Quad G5 would do the trick. This way you wouldn't have to deal with Dell or Alienware's horrible support. You would have the equivalent of two Xbox 360s, and a much better OS.

I am not trolling in this area because I have experienced both Alienware and Dell support. I would have to admit that Apple's support is better but they still have flaws.

Re:Dell still doesn't need AMD

[thedletterman]

AMD also has plans to release their own 65nm chipsets at something ridiculous like 30 watts.. they also have a line of quad and eight core processors that will beat the shit out of intel... not to mention AMD's crossbar technology blows fsb out of the water, and HT is a complete piece of garbage.. AMD still maintains superior architecture, even if Intel does get the 65nm fabrication to market faster due to their excess $125 billion in cash.. considering AMD has only like $8 billion in cash.. it would be total bewilderment that Intel couldn't beat AMD to the market with new fabrication and manufacturing processes. It's still no secret that AMD has better engineers.