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The purchase has nothing to do with "influencing" less tech savvy people
Less tech savvy people don't buy from Alienware and company nor are they influenced by their expensive gaming products.

The HP purchase is for increased profits/margins, plain and simple. Voodoo, Alienware, etc. sell high-priced PCs for and to gamers. No one looks to these companies for mainstream usage high-performance desktop or server PCs because that is not what they sell. They sell expensive, video intense, purpose built gaming PCs for people with more money than good sense. As a result HP gains another good revenue stream with better margins from the purchase of Voodoo. Nothing more and nothing less.
Posted by: BeGoneFool   Posted on: 09/28/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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And Patti Dunn can be the medicine woman to run it.  osreinstall | 09/28/06
The purchase has nothing to do with "influencing" less tech savvy people  BeGoneFool | 09/28/06
"more money than good sense"  galileon | 09/29/06
There's already enough bad voodoo for HP  Boot_Agnostic | 09/29/06
Practicing Voodo May be HPs Last Chance  chicobill | 09/29/06
The high end of the market  tic swayback | 09/29/06
At least I can still buy a $25,000 computer  RIAAsucks | 09/29/06
REAL high-end users BUILD their PCs wink.  CobraA1 | 09/29/06
Just a ***-for-tat reaction to Dell  JackPastor | 09/30/06
HP could use a little Voodoo right now  John Zern | 10/01/06

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