Wow.

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You mean there was a time to buy AlienWare?

Im sure it was always good stuff but its definetly over priced. It funny to see them combine with Dell which generally provides a good deal but on a marginal product.
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Actually i think this is exactly why the acquisition is a good thing. within the last year dells product has gotten better by leaps and bounds. I just recently purchased a dell myself and my previous computer before this one was an alienware. Dell has pretty much forged a place for themselves based on "if you want an alienware but only want to spend 1500 here's your computer"

what i've seen over the last year are dell computers getting more and more attractive. thus why i now have a dell. the difference between my present computer at 1500$ and an alienware at 3000+ isn't really that much. Alienware will always be better for the Min/Maxers of computer ownership but i've gotten to the point where I dont really need all that and it saves me 1500 bucks.

either way dell now has each market covered. If they continued on as competitors dell would have eventually moved into the Alienware market. The Renegade listed above is just an extreme example of Dell saying "we can do it if we want to". Were Dell to move into that market it would probably have seriously hurt Alienware in the long run. This way they can move on and still completely control the high end market.