while lots of people credit apple with design savvy, think it merits pointinig out that Dell has always been the leader in the industry at customized products and services to specifically meet whatever the customer wants and needs from techhnology.
If the article is correct than going forward, Dell is well positioned to build on that custoomization and add a little more design savvy....then the future should be a bright one.
Curious how HP is following Dell's lead in the marketplace. Also ironic that Voodoo's blog commentary about Dell and discussions with Michael were published at the same time as VooDoo was discussing being sold to HP. Perhaps some of the Voodoo comments about Dell were in fact motivated by competitive interest versus any real insight?
More importantly, however, at Dell we continue to be about three steps ahead of both VooDoo and HP. They have a ways to go.
Six months ago we acquired Alienware, the leader in this field; our own XPS line, which just celebrated its one year anniversary with a gaming competition, is a line of products that is already beginning to incorporate technologies from high-end gaming for high-end PCs (something HP-Voodoo hope to do).
Seems to me the PC is really only personal again when the customer can customize their own product, directly with the manufacturer of the product. That is personal because consumers buy what they want and need versus what is on the shelf of some store or old tech being cleared from inventory. Dont know how that works for VooDoo under this scenario....but hope it does because access to a solid supply chain and economies of scale has preoccupied Voodoo for some time.
We wish VooDoo well working up through the tech labs and product group to the efficient and operational effectiveness of the business leadership. Hopefully they succeed with some of their product "innovations." In our situation, we are committed to leadership on this front, with Michael and others at Dell having over a year head start on HPs venture into gaming. Michael and Kevin readily recognize the importance of technology and leadership in this field. Michael himself is an avid gamer, who has been meeting other gamers and speaking at gaming conferences, so we dont need to "make the case" inside our business. We expect to continue our business leadership. See our corporate blog at http://www.direct2dell.com/ for some video and information about gaming and the PC
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while lots of people credit apple with design savvy, think it merits pointinig out that Dell has always been the leader in the industry at customized products and services to specifically meet whatever the customer wants and needs from techhnology.
If the article is correct than going forward, Dell is well positioned to build on that custoomization and add a little more design savvy....then the future should be a bright one.
Curious how HP is following Dell's lead in the marketplace. Also ironic that Voodoo's blog commentary about Dell and discussions with Michael were published at the same time as VooDoo was discussing being sold to HP. Perhaps some of the Voodoo comments about Dell were in fact motivated by competitive interest versus any real insight? More importantly, however, at Dell we continue to be about three steps ahead of both VooDoo and HP. They have a ways to go. Six months ago we acquired Alienware, the leader in this field; our own XPS line, which just celebrated its one year anniversary with a gaming competition, is a line of products that is already beginning to incorporate technologies from high-end gaming for high-end PCs (something HP-Voodoo hope to do). Seems to me the PC is really only personal again when the customer can customize their own product, directly with the manufacturer of the product. That is personal because consumers buy what they want and need versus what is on the shelf of some store or old tech being cleared from inventory. Dont know how that works for VooDoo under this scenario....but hope it does because access to a solid supply chain and economies of scale has preoccupied Voodoo for some time. We wish VooDoo well working up through the tech labs and product group to the efficient and operational effectiveness of the business leadership. Hopefully they succeed with some of their product "innovations." In our situation, we are committed to leadership on this front, with Michael and others at Dell having over a year head start on HPs venture into gaming. Michael and Kevin readily recognize the importance of technology and leadership in this field. Michael himself is an avid gamer, who has been meeting other gamers and speaking at gaming conferences, so we dont need to "make the case" inside our business. We expect to continue our business leadership. See our corporate blog at http://www.direct2dell.com/ for some video and information about gaming and the PC