But, but, it's a Dell!!! Forgot the boycott? :)

Post #17,678 by a6l6e6x 11/10/01 12:37:30 PM Reply	But, but, it's a Dell!!! Forgot the boycott? :) Alex Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Post #18,224 by bconnors 11/14/01 9:40:57 AM Reply	To quote from the movie "Highlander": "In the end, there can be only one". With the way the PC market is going, it looks like Dell will be the only major assembler left standing when it comes to purchasing personal machines. Since America is an "economic democracy" (as compared to a republic form of government), consumers vote with their dollars, and Dell just keeps raking in the cash. Like Wal-Mart, they sell for less than the competition, which keeps customers coming back for repeat sales. Personally, the best customer support I ever got came from Gateway back in 1996. When I used Dell's support 2 years ago, I had to threaten the dcrone with the fact that I was an employee and could track him down to get him to perform his duties better. BConnors "Prepare for metamorphosis. Ready, Kafka?"
Post #18,361 by orion 11/14/01 9:17:34 PM Reply	The Quickening starts already. Is Compaq going to take over HP? What about IBM? That sleeping giant? Gateway seems to do fine. Will someone buy out the eMachines company already? :) It is Packard Bell reincarnated. :) It will most likely be a battle between IBM and Dell in the long run. Then IBM buys out Dell. ;) *Picking up the pieces of my broken life.*
Post #18,383 by static 11/15/01 1:38:17 AM Reply	Gateway is not that healthy. They've pulled out of Australia, for instance. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #18,382 by tonytib 11/15/01 1:27:34 AM Reply	Well, Dell won't be raking in the cash if Intel can't make the chips...referring to Intel's big problems with delivering 2 GHz P4's. That's the problem with Dell's "Intel's premier distributor" approach -- if Intel screws up, Dell is screwed -- or will have to move quickly. I'm not sure how much Dell matters anyway. I'd bet that "white box" has a higher market share than Dell. And, in general, I think we're moving away from PC's to networked, embedded computing devices. That's the way I'm thinking, and even the conservative world of factory automation is moving towards networked stuff -- we're just doing a job using an Ethernet-based Galil motion controller, instead of a plug-in PC board. Tony

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