Dell's XPS goes $10k (again) and X-Men
By Ryan Block 
posted May 15th 2006 2:37AM
posted May 15th 2006 2:37AM
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I'd love to meet the moron that dumps 10K on a DULL.
wow! Dell dont want to become a "gateway" it looks like...great!
why not get a ps3? and a wii? and a 360? maybe psp and a DS??
lol Oyoyo,
and about 50 games each.
I think if your dropping 10k on a PC like that you'll be doing all 3 anyways SLy.
Even the amount is too big
Are these people that can afford $10k for a PC the same people who want a big X-Men sticker on the side?
www.scan.co.uk
Go to the above link look at the panther system quad 7900gtx SLI, fastest AMD dc CPU's, duel 10k raptors, physics processing hardware awsome paint job all for a very fair price.
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Dell has a long way to go to even begin to compete with Alienware. They are trying but comparing there XPS line with the Alienware line leaves you wanting ALOT.
The Laptops are subpar in my opinion.
As far as $10k for a desktop, anyone who pays that is an idiot as you can build that system for $5k through the right channels and pay an airbrush artist $250 to get a custom painted case.
Dell is definately not ready for the big boys yet, go back to the mass market of government selling and low-power PC's.
why would they have to compete with alienware when they OWN alienware??
Like all DeLLs, nothing but a POS
www.scan.co.uk has nice prices sometimes, but their service is CRAP. I bought a CPU from them while building my little sister a computer for Christmas. It arrived faulty. I got an RMA number and was told that I'd get the new CPU before Christmas day. Three weeks after Christmas I still had no CPU and no replies to any of my emails. (Luckily my boss is also a great friend of mine and I'd been able to borrow a CPU from a machine at work so that my sister's computer was fine for the big day, no thanks to Scan!) I called them to ask WTF was going on and they told me they hadn't received my broken one yet. Lucky for me I had sent it recorded delivery, so I had to pay 2 quid for the royal mail to send me a copy of the signature of some dull Scan employee when he signed for it 6 days before Christmas. I had to send this to Scan along with a letter explaining what a complete balls-up they'd made, and I later got my replacement CPU - over 4 weeks late.
The company I work for no longer buys from them after receiving two servers that were so beaten up during delivery that they didn't work, and Scan tried to blame us - even though we had refused to accept them in their condition and they left here merely minutes after arriving!
I wouldn't trust Scan with anything more expensive than a 128mb USB stick.
PC Perspective has actual specs on the system that are quite impressive: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=249
Conroe, Quad SLI anyone?
New car/Dell, Dell/New car, New car/Dell, Dell/New car......hmmmmm.
I choose a new car!
p.s. that's the ugliest PC I've ever seen.
$10K for a Dell with a X-men III decal!? &$@*# Dell!
Think about how this will look in a year or two. Not only will everyone have what you paid a small fortune to obtain, but you'll be stuck with a cheesy movie logo on the side. People, think! How many "Batman Returns" t-shirts do you see being worn today?
It is stupid why pay £5000+ on something that will become very outdated, very soon. Its a movie nothing more and in a year anyone with this will be like "oh shit I look like an uncool geek!"
from the flash site:
"aggressive forward-leaning design"
"stabilizing fin"
"user-controllable lighting with 7-color choices"
for $10K you think they could design something that would stand on its own without training wheels/fin. It literally looks like a space heater that might topple over or a jet engine ready for the bird test. BTW, what hardcore gamer has that kind of cash?
Just wanted to clarify something: The giveaway system is worth 10k, similar config to the Renegade (30" LCD, Quad SLI, Custom paint job, etc.) Actual XPS systems will be configurable to order from the normal XPS price points.
Actually, is anyone LOVING that case design?
I first went "hmm... that's weird looking." Then, after about 20 seconds of staring at it, I realized it wasn't weird, I just REALLY liked it.
I definitely wouldn't mind that PC without all the stuff I wouldn't use.
(I.E. about $9K of it and that ridiculous paint job.)
I'd buy that case for $99 in a heartbeat.