supremedesigner said:
My opinion: I think most people prefer new intel over AMD b/c of power saving. I may be wrong. What do you think?
Mmmm... I'm not sure if that's related to what you quoted or not. I think most consumers could care less and don't understand the technical details, and that most IT people are slightly conservative and stick to Intel, but probably make that decision based on money more than anything else for user workstations, except when high-power computing is involved (and of course servers are a different matter).
As far as Dell's high end XPS products, I think they have nice specs but do not do as good a job at having a high-end "feel." And so they have not been succcessful at cultivating a brand that draws consumers with deeper wallets, in contrast to brands like Apple, Alienware, VAIO, and Thinkpad, which all succeed at that in different ways....
EDIT: Sorry, Ben, I totally forgot about that.
I don't know what their long term plan is. Is it just to apply Dell manufacturing and SCM to make Alienware more profitable and use Dell channels to increase Alienware volume? Alienware in contrast I think does have some leveragable brand cache with at least one subsegment of high-price customers....
