Crushing Your Enemies in a Pile of Collapsing Debris

Behold! The Dell XPS 600 Renegade, the ulimate in computer gaming technology. The price tag, $10,000.
Best. Computer. Ever.
But what can it do?

The limited-edition, custom-painted Dell(TM) XPS 600 Renegade delivers to U.S. consumers an immersive gaming experience based on the industry’s first dedicated physics accelerator — the AGEIA(TM) PhysX(TM) processor.
The AGEIA technology lets users interact with supported games in more sophisticated and realistic ways. The AGEIA PhysX processor can power real-time dynamic motion and interaction on a massive scale so games can feature large numbers of complex characters and moving objects in incredibly life-like environments. For example, instead of using traditional weapons, gamers can pull down the roof on their enemies, crushing them in a pile of collapsing debris.

Poland, sold separately.
By “traditional weapons,” they mean traditional computer game weapons.
Today, Dell announced that it’s buying Alienware Corp., a company that also makes high-end computers favored by gamers. I had no idea these things cost so much.
Interestingly, Alienware uses AMD’s chips and Dell only uses Intel’s. Dell said that Alienware will be a subsidiary and will continue to use AMD’s products.
Business Week has more.

Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on March 23rd, 2006 at 9:40 am

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