Dell Confirms That The Aliens Are Coming
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Dell has now confirmed that there is room for both the XPS line of systems and also AlienWare. On the Your Blog site written by Dell employees, the clarification means that Dell feels there is room for both brands of gaming systems. On the site it states:
On February 22nd, the Alienware Area-51 m15x began the Alien invasion of Dell.com. This little juggernaut was hard not to notice on our gaming laptop page, sporting the powerful GeForce 8800m GTX graphics card in a 15.4″ notebook. I was duly impressed, as this laptop was easily as powerful as a good gaming desktop. I began saving my pennies
Now, the Alien invasion has continued, with the addition of the Area-51 m9750 to the Dell gaming laptop web site lineup. This 17″ Stealth Black monster offers dual 512MB GeForce 8700m GT cards, more graphics rendering power than the system I built for myself just a few months ago. If anyone was wondering, my birthday is coming up. Please plan accordingly.
Looking at the Dell Gaming Laptop page, you can see both of these beautiful machines ride alongside of the XPS m1730 highlighting the way two great brands can team up to deliver the best gaming experience in the business. The XPS isn’t going away, though it may go in new directions as hinted by the XPS One and the slimline XPS m1330. The imminent disappearance of XPS isn’t on the itinerary, though. Things are changing for the better.
What is interesting is that it appears that the XPS line of systems will be geared for the average consumer/gamer, while the AlienWare systems will be directed at the full blown gamers.
But this brings up another issue. You may have noticed that some games are not available for the PC any longer and are now being made for the X-Box, Wii, PS3 gaming consoles. Which makes one wonder how long gaming systems will be needed?
Comments welcome.
[tags]dell, alienware, xps, computer, system, pc, games, gamers, [/tags]
2 Comments
Doug
May 19th, 2008
at 7:03am
While I am not a gamer, I do follow what is happening related to gaming hardware and you raise a really interesting issue that I have thought about. The advantage to gaming on an Xbox, Wii, or PS3 is that the game works on said console. Unless you have the latest and greatest video card, processor, FSB, RAM, and monitor for desktop gaming, the game will not run the way that it was originally intended. Plus, unless you are have a 64-bit computer, you can’t add more than 4GB of RAM (motherboard will probably recognize it as 3.25GB or 3.75 depending on the board).
For console gaming, you basically get a 1080p HDTV (which serves multiple purposes even though it costs more), a console, a game, the proper cables, and it works.
Most people know-a-days, just want what they buy to work. They don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars every couple of months on new hardware every time buy a new game. I think it makes more sense to buy a mid-range desktop/laptop computer for computing purposes and buy a console for gaming purposes. Yeah that means you can’t do high-end gaming on your desktop but at least you don’t have to update your computer hardware every time you buy a new game.
–Doug
Ron Schenone
May 19th, 2008
at 8:38am
Hi Doug,
Excellent points. The gaming consoles are they way to go for high end games, without having to beat your wallet every time your PC needs an upgrade to play the latest release.
Thanks for mentioning this.