Seriously, like I said, they burned me once, not again, when someone sells you shitty product, you don't go back to them, again. Sure there are things that are broken, and what not. But the last laptop was completely underperformant relative to the IBM with the same hardware. So I have no reason to trust Dell now, no matter what they claim about hardware.
Also just checked out the XPS, I still don't see a 15" with 1920 x 1080, which is what I have now, so Dell still can't meet even my minimum requirements.
And actually they used to make such a beast, but that was more than 5 years ago.
In addition, I have looked at Alienware systems in the store, nice chassis, but nothing whatsoever impressive about the rest of the hardware or the performance; and the whizbang alienware customization software was show as shit.