Now here's an interesting story in the making (quite literally, since they can't officially say anything)

Rich Brown, part of the ALPHA blog team @ Cnet posts about his own sources of information... ooh ahh!!
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http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6464030.html?tag=blog
"While no word has been officially released from either Dell or Alienware, we heard from a reliable source this morning that the purchase has indeed gone down.... "
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XBOX LIVE EVENT -- MS is handing out Free Xbox Live Gold membership for one weekend!!
(well, only 71 hrs. since it's Daylight Savings Time... punks!)
Oh, and you have to have an XBOX360! (sorry old xbox owners)
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/promotions/livegoldweekend/schedule.htm