I'm actually in the opening stages of buying a new computer. My current system is going on 2 years old and is still decent with it's AMD 53-FX processor, 2 gigs of ram, and ATI X800 XT PE video card, but in my mind, I need to upgrade to something new.
I built my last 3 systems and figured that I'd take it easy on the new one and let someone else build one. I did consider Alienware, but like people have been saying, it seems like they went downhill once they grew big.
I didn't like Dell because they didn't use AMD and always had a bad gut feeling about them for not being a quality computer, perhaps it's because they make sooo many cheap computers for people, however, after looking at their new upcoming XPS 600 Renegade, I might have to reconsider, this thing looks bad ass, no mention of price though. Here's a link, the case looks BAD
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/s...&~topic=gaming
(you'll have to click on the banner on the page to see it in detail)