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Dell buys Alienware

DigMe

DigMe

Aug 10, 2002
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#1
I know this isn't exactly breaking news but I don't think it was ever discussed here. Dell announced in late March that they're buying Alienware.

I'm thinking this is their clever way of skirting their exclusive contract with Intel and getting into the AMD market. What say ye?

I assume Dell will still sell their high-end XPS gaming machines since they're supposedly going to continue to operate separately.

bc
 
#6
superbassman2000 said:
maybe dell will lower prices...thats the only real problem with alienware...they are decent computers, but the price is rediculous
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You can't just lower the prices and keep the quality hardware. When they lower prices they will lower quality of hardware no one pay's attention to like ram. More they lower the price more they will lower the quality. It's a business it's not a charity.
 
#7
kserg said:
You can't just lower the prices and keep the quality hardware. When they lower prices they will lower quality of hardware no one pay's attention to like ram.
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Since they seem to use their own branded RAM who would really ever know if the quality was lowered or they started having it made at a cheaper factory or something?

bc
 
#8
DigMe said:
Since they seem to use their own branded RAM who would really ever know if the quality was lowered or they started having it made at a cheaper factory or something?

bc
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Even if they didn’t brand their own ram, if they went from corsair to some unbranded name majority would not bother to look at that really.

I am guessing they just brand the hardware but really it's made by Samsung or something like that. Samsung sells a lot of their ram to companies that later brand the same Samsung ram as their own. So there will be really no way of telling which ram chips they use. Just a guess though, never dealt with AW before.
 
#13
i_got_a_mohawk said:
I never saw why people bought alienwarez computers, they are waaaaay too overpriced for what they are, much much much cheaper to build your own PC and it isnt that hard, even i managed to do it!

While we are on the computer geek side of things, Quad SLi anyone? woof! :p
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Defiantly, but that goes to any major computer builders.
 
#16
I hate dell! bought a notebook and after the fourth one I finally got one that worked let alone had the things in it that I purchased. I'll never buy dell again. Guess I can scratch alienware off of the list too.
 
#18
i don't think you need to be cheap to pass on alienware...just smart...with alienware you are paying for the cool box and thats it...i refuse to believe anyone that tells me different as well, unless they can give me a price sheet of the components they are sticking in there showing me how "expensive" those part are...

anyone can make their own for much much cheaper
 
#20
kserg said:
Defiantly, but that goes to any major computer builders.
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True, but i think it applies more-so with alienware, because they are aimed at the uber geek market :p , so most people would easily be able to build them up, i know Dell over here arent much more expensive than building your own, so alot of people are fine spending that little bit more to have the cover of someone else having made it, but alienwarez are just waaaay too much
 

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