Alienware makes Star Wars-branded PCs

By Keith Shaw, NetworkWorld.com, 04/20/05

We're pretty cynical about most Star Wars-related merchandising (Jar Jar beach towel, anyone?), but this got our fanboy juices flowing.

Alienware has created a Star Wars-branded desktop PC (the Alienware Aurora: Star Wars Edition) and will give one away on April 24 at the Celebration III event in Indianapolis (expected to attract more than 30,000 SW fans). The winner will get to choose from either the Dark Side or the Rebel Alliance models (my money is on the Dark Side).

The PCs include AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 processors that include its Cool'n'Quiet technology to help maintain a more quiet desktop in the high-performance gaming PC market, Alienware says. The actual PCs will be on sale in the U.S. "in the near future," the company added.

Bonus photos:

Rebel Alliance model (click to view in new window).

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