Posted on 02/03/2014 1:22:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
This has nothing to do with the economy. This has to do with Dell having an outdated business model and selling inferior products.
And yes, the personal PC has been changing so they'll need to re-invent themselves.
I’m actually not very tech-savvy; I ask close friends/family any time I’m looking at buying anything.
Ah, I remember when word would come from one of the secretaries that HR had all the conference rooms reserved. Our telephones had a dual ring for outside calls and a single for inside. On those days no one inside the office would call anyone inside the office except HR. You would hear your neighbor's phone do the single ring and it was "dead man walking".
They always got the job done in the morning and those of us left at lunch were relieved. There was one where the casualties were high and the phone calls started again after lunch. Those of us that survived that day felt like we were walking out of a war zone.
How many of this 15,000 were Obama voters? How the economy works is something liberals cannot comprehend - no matter what. Living on welfare in government projects is the democrat dream come true for them.
I built my current PC and the one before it. This one is on year three and the previous one lasted 4 before I decided to upgrade it. I’ve never had a problem out of either one because I didn’t use the cheapest parts available and I put in proper cooling systems. I expect my current PC to last another 2+ years.
Exactly.
WRONG!
Oil companies, in Houston during the mid ‘80’s, were like that.
Not a bad severance package. These days one always have to be ready to be a rat and leave a sinking ship.
tablets are also cutting into desktop and laptop pc sales. I’ve seen figures that indicate pc sales are on a steadily downward trend. I can offer my own anecdotal proof as well. I used to surf and post on FR from a desktop with dial-up. ( i live in the middle of nowhere and faster internet has yet to arrive) I now surf and post from a kindle 3G. It’s much faster and does the same job. To paraphrase JFK computer companies these days have to run very fast just to stand still.
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I may have been thinking of his computer company after it went public - definitely Left leaning. Here's hoping he can reverse some of that.
Dell Optiplex 780s are what they use at my office, those aren’t too bad at least mine has not crashed yet.
We bought an little Acer Aspire from Newegg for our office/ internet PC years ago, it is still chugging along — I guess its around 7 years old now. I open it up and blow out the dust every couple of months. I did have to reinstall the OS once but its easy as the OS is on a hidden partition on the HDD. For an inexpensive computer Acer makes a good product.
I used it for 12 years, replacing the wheel mouse numerous times and the dial up modem in 2005($13 at Walmart).
The problem was that IE had long since stopped working, but I was able to use a very old version of Firefox, which I had to use because Firefox had long since stopped supporting windows 98. I still have it because it has about 400 napster files on the hard drive.
The new HP I bought had the hard drive go out about a month after the warranty expired. That cost $100-125. plus about $400 worth of aggravation.
I’m on my fourth Dell, most have lasted 5 years or more, even an old refurbished model was pretty good. I’m aware of large users that have thousands of Dell units, and the only reason they changed was to upgrade speed and monitors - cheaper to buy a package than in pieces. They are way a head of the folks at Lenovo and HP has had to make lots of changes to Compaq...which is why they are #3.
I’m using an OptiPlex 960 at work. In general, the Dells do a good job for us...and we work them hard, running CAD and 3-D modeling programs on them.
The consumer market is surely tanking, because people are using tablets, etc. But I could not fathom doing my job without a desktop computer.
I thought I had read that he was pretty conservative. Good to know.
Dell was practically giving these away at $549.00 (+ optional $10.00 overnight shipping) up until midnight on 2/2/14:
Now they’ve gone back up to $649.00, but still a bargain considering the specs and the builtin 3-yr onsite Dell factory warranty (and Windows 7 x64 to boot!)
This is isn't the economy's fault. The problem is that Dell makes products that people don't buy anymore, even if they have the cash.
Austin is not the entire Dell workforce... it’s a worldwide organization.
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