Hi, me too read bout it from many sources
but what i got to know is that, yup Dell is planning to promote Alienware PCs[ U wont see Dell nywhere on it coz dell want to keep alenware brand name as alienware itself], but they will still be having the XPS range in full glory.
They say XPS is their premium range, but Alienware is the luxurious range which is targeted only for real enthusiastic.
So u can expect the cheapest Alienware for almost double the price than the current top XPS M1730, ie will come around 2L.
[there was lots of threads goin on bout the acqisition of Alien by Dell on 2006 Q1 nd Q2]