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 Post subject: Alienware acquired by Dell
PostPosted: Wed 03-22-2006 8:59PM 
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Huh, I thought they (Dell) denied this a couple of weeks ago. Guess not.
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I see they already adopted Alienware pricing.
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I hope Dell changes nothing about the way Alienware is run. Dell is horrible.
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A Dell spokesman said the acquisition was financially immaterial to Dell, which had revenue of $55.9 billion last year compared with Alienware's $200 million.



gee wounder how alienware managed so much revenue

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UrLocalGuru wrote:
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A Dell spokesman said the acquisition was financially immaterial to Dell, which had revenue of $55.9 billion last year compared with Alienware's $200 million.



gee wounder how alienware managed so much revenue


By selling 5 new systems. Gotta love that 1000% markup they have going on :)

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devil wrote:
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I see they already adopted Alienware pricing.


It's still overpriced, no doubt, but have you seen the specs on that thing??
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Alienware shouldn't be change at all. They well be a subsidary company with their own marketing support products etc. Dell just makes money off it now.

I assume the deal just means that Dell now holds the majority of Alienware's stock.
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The really sad thing is, in two years you will be able to build a better one for less than a tenth of that.

Im just curious to see how long it will take them to put all that into a laptop.

But I do like the "Physics Accelerator" card they have on it. I wonder how much of a difference it makes. (in addition to the 4 SLI cards it has)

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Alienware laptops are pointless. Why would you want a laptop that gets 45 minutes of battery life while playing games?

The only thing you would need it for is LAN parties, but if you where that serious you would probably want to bring your big rig anyway.
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But I do like the "Physics Accelerator" card they have on it. I wonder how much of a difference it makes. (in addition to the 4 SLI cards it has)


It makes no difference until they make games that take advantage of said card. And really, how many game companies will go out of their way to code for these when no one has them? And who would buy them if there are no games for it?

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some game titles that will use PhysX:

http://physx.ageia.com/titles.html

a lot of developers have already agreed to "go out of their way", but i cant find the link to the list right off. i'll look around for it.

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here's footage of GRAW with and w/o the phsyx card...

http://physx.ageia.com/footage.html

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I used to think dell tech support was the devil-Mom's computer had WinME. Then I called the server support and gave them my mom's laptop number. That actually got solved very quickly without an accent I couldn't understand.

I believe they've got seperate databases now though.
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