It’s official, Dell buys Alienware and can now sell AMD-powered rigs...

After weeks of speculation, the Dell-Alienware deal is now official. I brought this up in an earlier blog post (Has Dell “Officially” Purchased Alienware?) a couple of weeks ago after originally reading about the rumors on Rahul Sood’s (the founder of Alienware competitor Voodoo PC) blog. According to a report on Reuters, “Alienware will operate as a separate unit and keep its product development, marketing, sales and technical support staff as well as its brand.”

In not-so-surprising news, Dell has started taking orders on its $9,930 XPS 600 Renegade gaming computer that rocks a 4.26GHz Intel Pentium 965 Extreme Edition processor as well as Nvidia’s QUAD-SLI graphics solution.

As far as implications are concerned, it may be too early to tell. Of course, this now gives Dell an outlet to sell AMD based computers, including enterprise servers. Stay tuned…