This will be a day long remembered.  It will see the Microsoft Spring Showcase announcement, and it also sees the beginning of the end for the Dell XPS line

Engadget is reporting (via the Wall Street Journal) that Dell intends to retire the XPS line of computers, geared specifically towards gamers and people wanting a machine with serious horsepower.  The company plans to remove the line so that it can focus on their higher priced and more elite brand name Alienware line of PCs, which are still underperforming while the XPS line continues to sell steadily.  No word yet on how this will affect the XPS laptop line.

If you're looking to get an XPS desktop machine, now might be the time to do it.  According to the article, the XPS could be gone in as early as a month's time.

(Thanks, Phil!) 

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iFester said:

A better move would have been to have the Alienware manufacture the XPS line and retire the Alienware brand. Those PC's look good under the hood, but ugly enough on the outside, I wouldn't want one. The XPS' looked nice. A sad day indeed.

May 13, 2008