Dell Inks Agreement To Acquire Alienware; Terms Undisclosed

RTTNews ^ | March 22, 2006

[HAL9000]

(RTTNews) - Dell Inc. on Wednesday said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Alienware to further satisfy the growing number of consumers and businesses seeking the highest-performance PC products, including those used for gaming and multimedia digital content management. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

The company said Alienware will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary following completion of the transaction and will maintain its own product development, product marketing, sales, technical support and other operations as well as brand.

[Hexenhammer]

I don't own Alienware, but it's still a dark day for gamers.

[Outland]

"The company said Alienware will ... will maintain its own product development, .. technical support... "

Yeah. Sure. There it goes down the crapper.

[JoJo Gunn]

Ping for a highly regarded company soon to be FUBAR....

[Echo Talon]

Falcon Northwest Give one of these a try :)

[Echo Talon]

Falcon NW Configure

[raybbr]

"We believe that Alienware will realize significant advantages from Dell's world-class supply chain and operational efficiencies," Gonzalez said in a statement. "They will allow us to continue to satisfy our core customers with the most innovative and highest-performing PCs, and ultimately extend the reach and appeal of the Alienware brand."Excite news article.

[JerseyHighlander]

Alienware has gone downhill in the last 8 months it's really of no surprise. They increased their marketing, increased their sales, but can't keep up, tremendously long waits (3 weeks! for crossfires!) to get top of the line systems from them now.

Falcon NW,
polywell.com
micro velocity
voodoopc
and a slew of others are selling at lower profit margins(except voodoopc) and have better customer service.

The other side is that most of the new high end configurations have had the kinks worked out, it's now possible to build and test a pci-e dual gpu system in a matter of a day, and test for one night, if your componenets arrive in a functioning state. And it will cost you 50% of what any of the above sell it for.

If any Freepers in the tristate NY/NJ/CT area need a top of the line pc built, freepmail me, I have a side business going myself.

[Xenophobic Alien]

Alienware is the only pre-fab I woould have bought, so much for that now. I wouldn't own a dell if you paid me. I'll stick to building my own.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

I like my Dell XPS.