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FSJ: Why Dell will not bounce back

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Re: FSJ: Why Dell will not bounce back

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The real genius and power of China lies in its armies of low-cost and brilliant engineers. Seen a Lenovo box lately? Heck of a lot nicer than anything Dell is pooping out from its factory in Round Rock.

Yeah, right. AFAIK all Lenovo engineering and design is done in the same ex-IBM engineering US-based campus and I am personally get scared every time new Thinkpads come out, because when Lenovo transfers engineering to China or/and turns into Dell, there won't be any usable laptops anymore and I'll have to go back to a self-made desktop PC.

Sorry Apple, but your keyboards and touchpads aren't in the same league with http://kontsevoy.com/ultranav.png and Dell... let's just say they'll never bounce back.

Re: FSJ: Why Dell will not bounce back

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Dell makes cheap functional machines. Apple makes expensive consumerist lifestyle fashion. In the current economic environment Apple is a better short than Dell.

dell may make functional machines, but they are not cheap. maybe cheaper than apple, but u can already see Asian companies starting to beat dell at their own game

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Dell makes cheap functional machines. Apple makes expensive consumerist lifestyle fashion. In the current economic environment Apple is a better short than Dell.

apple's "expensive consumerist lifestyle fashion," as you call it, is now the de facto standard hacker machine, used by dhh, the inventor of ruby on rails, by pg himself, and too many others to mention.

Re: FSJ: Why Dell will not bounce back

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Dell makes cheap functional machines. Apple makes expensive consumerist lifestyle fashion. In the current economic environment Apple is a better short than Dell.

dell may make functional machines, but they are not cheap. maybe cheaper than apple, but u can already see Asian companies starting to beat dell at their own game

How does having competitors with a lower price make you not cheap? I don't see the correlation.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

dell may make functional machines, but they are not cheap. maybe cheaper than apple, but u can already see Asian companies starting to beat dell at their own game

How does having competitors with a lower price make you not cheap? I don't see the correlation.

"Cheap" is completely relative. 1000 dollars is cheap for a car, but expensive for a sandwich.

Re: FSJ: Why Dell will not bounce back

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Dell makes cheap functional machines. Apple makes expensive consumerist lifestyle fashion. In the current economic environment Apple is a better short than Dell.

apple's "expensive consumerist lifestyle fashion," as you call it, is now the de facto standard hacker machine, used by dhh, the inventor of ruby on rails, by pg himself, and too many others to mention.

yes, and those are "rich" people, much richer than the average consumer, especially when you take in account countries such as China or India.
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