Dell Not Phasing Out XPS PCs...Kinda

Correcting an item in the Wall Street Journal which said that Dell intends to phase out its XPS line of gaming PCs, Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden let it be known that the company intends instead to phase in the XPS line. With Alienware.

Having snatched up Alienware, Dell plans to "invest like crazy" in the development of the Alienware brand while merging the two teams, Alienware and XPS, together. This is, of course, what one does when one owns two top-selling brands of gaming PCs. One splices them into a single mega-selling brand of gaming PCs!

There will be an XPS refresh or two before the brand phases out blends into the Alienware hive mind. Dell's expansion of XPS systems into all-in-one PCs and other non-gaming offerings means that the XPS name might survive after all, albeit in a different form.

Dell denies rumors of XPS phase-out [Electronista]