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DELL goes bye bye
Michael Dell: We Are Going Back To Our Roots Taking Dell Private
The idea behind the buyout is to radically move the company away from the shrinking PC market and focus more on business software and services in a way that will make the company look more like IBM. Michael Dell wants to focus on areas like cloud computing, security software, big data and mobile. http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanva...-dell-private/ ==================== They are not going back to their roots. They are abandoning the PC market. Remember that when it comes time to buy a new computer and think about what kind of service you will get in the future. -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning. |
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CRNG wrote:
Michael Dell: We Are Going Back To Our Roots Taking Dell Private ==================== They are not going back to their roots. They are abandoning the PC market. Remember that when it comes time to buy a new computer and think about what kind of service you will get in the future. The same or better than it is now? Friends don't let friends buy Dell! -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ |
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:36:42 -0500, CRNG wrote:
Michael Dell: We Are Going Back To Our Roots Taking Dell Private The idea behind the buyout is to radically move the company away from the shrinking PC market and focus more on business software and services in a way that will make the company look more like IBM. Michael Dell wants to focus on areas like cloud computing, security software, big data and mobile. http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanva...-dell-private/ ==================== They are not going back to their roots. They are abandoning the PC market. Remember that when it comes time to buy a new computer and think about what kind of service you will get in the future. Maybe Michael Dell's idea of their roots is making profits, rather than providing something useful for consumers :-) Of course I actually agree with you that the quote is disingenuous... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On 12/09/2013 2:36 PM, CRNG wrote:
Michael Dell: We Are Going Back To Our Roots Taking Dell Private The idea behind the buyout is to radically move the company away from the shrinking PC market and focus more on business software and services in a way that will make the company look more like IBM. Michael Dell wants to focus on areas like cloud computing, security software, big data and mobile. http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanva...-dell-private/ ==================== They are not going back to their roots. They are abandoning the PC market. Remember that when it comes time to buy a new computer and think about what kind of service you will get in the future. With Win 8 sales in the pits, Android and Apple getting mroe share, Dell's M$ only business model is on the rocks. This means Dell has to turn itself around and reinvent itself or it will be gone in 3 years. Todays computers are too cheap to worry about inflated contracts. -- Socialist-statism corruption is a great idea so long as the credit is good and other people pay for it. When the credit runs out and those that pay for it leave, they can all share having nothing but unemployment, debt and discontentment. |
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:08:57 -0600, Canuck57
wrote: On 12/09/2013 2:36 PM, CRNG wrote: Michael Dell: We Are Going Back To Our Roots Taking Dell Private Todays computers are too cheap to worry about inflated contracts. Agreed. My Dell is 10 months old (XPS 8500--i7-3770, Win 8 Pro, 16GB, 1TB, GT640 video). It was $700 base price, $900 delivered, with two upgrades (Win 8 upgraded to Pro and the GT640 instead of a lower ATI) and sales tax. Costwise, it was a wash in terms of doing the upgrades, but buying the computer "ready built" means they have to maintain it working properly with that configuration. My biggest concern was USB 3.0 ports because that is how I connect a variety of devices. I had added a PCIe card to get USB 3.0 ports and it worked fine with my USB 3.0 hub. It appears Dell has a problem with USB 3.0 hubs. They are not seen as USB 3.0 but as USB 2.1. Motherboard replaced--no change. Devices connected directly to PC run as USB 3.0. But NOT the hub (the one that is known to be good). I was curious about extending the warranty. My local system builder offered a 3-yr "on site/next business day" warranty for $65 (yes) for my original Vista system in 2007--which he built to my specs--so I did have an idea of what a properly-built system warranty really costs. A 1-yr extension of the existing Dell warranty was ~$175. A 2-yr extension was about $275-$300. Typically, I replace systems every 5 yrs, as there usually are a number of other changes that also necessitate replacing the case, PS, etc. This time, it was USB 3.0 ports (which I wanted) and the need to replace PS, etc. I don't see why anyone would buy a warranty extension at those prices. |
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