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Dell Abandons Its Customization Roots

Posted by Zonk on from the off-the-factory-line dept.

LiveFreeOrDieInTheGo writes "Dell intends to scale back its build-to-order service model, while increasing sales of prepackaged systems. The goal: $3B USD savings by 2011. The downside: customers expect Dell to build-to-order. The deeper downside: Dell will outsource more production and assembly."

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  1. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    penis.

  2. Re:Typical kneejerk business move... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    > I'm a fan of Dell kit

    I'm calling BS unless you provide a URL to these kit computers you claim Dell sells. I bought just over seven figures worth of hardware from Dell last year and have bought from dell for over 15 years, and I have never seen a Dell kit computer. They sell complete computers. They don't sell parts kits like you claim. You're full of crap.

  3. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's easy to blame Dell here, but it's buyers of technology that are driving it. Not enough people want essentially bespoke computers (or the ones that do aren't buying them from Dell), and Dell is going to eliminate the facilities that provide that service. Perhaps the consumers that are intelligent enough to know what they need from a customized system are also smart enough not to buy it from Dell.
  4. Re:Hardly. by homer_s · · Score: -1, Troll

    They will obviously cut their unprofitable programs.
    This is why businesses suck. They cut unprofitable stuff. Why, I make it a point to increase my unprofitable activities. Every day, I wake up and read comic books for 5 hours instead of going to work.
    Sure, it is unprofitable and cutting that out would make economic sense, but then there would be no difference between me and the evil corporations.

    No. As a nation, we should focus of continuing to do unprofitable things and make things as inefficient as possible.

    Remember boys and girls, the more inefficient you are, the more jobs you create. And, as everyone knows, the more jobs you have here, the more wealthy everyone is.