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but i think they would make much more money if they priced the thing affordably so that more people would buy it and still give them enough margin to make a a decent profit, vs. jacking up the price because it's a new and hot lappy and that's the trend these days (lookin at you Sony).

2ndly - i ain't buyin a laptop >$1000, no more how thin it is....there are just too many options in the market these days (like Sony's CW). ]]>Oct 8th 2009 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 8th 2009 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 8th 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/
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Due to the stricken tobacco and furniture industries that have ravaged the area, Winston-Salem made an all-out effort for Dell to bring this plant and even gave them over a quarter of a billion dollars in tax incentives. That was only a few years ago and after months of denying official's speculations that they would, Dell has now fully reneged on their end of the deal.

Not sure where or on whom this falls, but it's a masterful f*ck up, a major dissappointment and a huge blow to our local economy.

Merry Christmas, Dell.]]>Oct 8th 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 8th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives.

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"The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore! "

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[/sarcasm]]]>Oct 7th 2009 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/So you're saying Bill Gates need to swoop in and save Dell's ass?"


Bzzt. Not what happened with Microsoft and Apple. Google is your friend.]]>Oct 7th 2009 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html
"Microsoft to invest $150 million in Apple"
"This deal strengthens Apple's viability. It's a new era in terms of Apple and Microsoft working together," said Apple chief financial officer Fred Anderson, who has been assigned to run the company's daily operations until a successor to outgoing CEO Gilbert Amelio is found.

Yes, Google is useful.]]>Oct 8th 2009 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/
"Aug. 6, 1997: Apple Rescued — by Microsoft"]]>Oct 8th 2009 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_1999_Jan_26/ai_53999515/

Also, Wikipedia can be your friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer%2C_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corp.

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So keeping Apple alive was an interesting turn for the books to keep Microsoft from dealing with the other consequences.

Oh and I was working in IT at the time, and beta testing Exchange for Microsoft, so I don't need to read Wikipedia, CNET or Wired (all of whom I wouldn't consider reputable news sources) to remember the facts.]]>Oct 8th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 8th 2009 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyTr-EZJF-I&feature=player_embedded

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/three-government-reports-point-to-fiscal-doomsday-3-35720

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This is the proper course of capitalism. What would accelerate the collapse of the dollar is if Dell got a bailout, financed by the Federal Reserve and their "money out of nothing" runaway inflation. The dollar WILL collapse at its current rate. That is not in doubt. Government intervention and the Fed continues to damage the market and supposedly the solution that is sold to us is to increase the amount of intervention and the amount of power the Fed has, even though no one really knows how they do what they do. We could've been out of the recession by now and recovering had we allowed bad assets and malinvestments to liquidate according to the natural forces of the market. But nope, the government chooses to continue to attempt to delay the inevitable by printing more and more. It is unsustainable, and is why we are so poor. Inflation and the Fed gives to the rich, and steals from the poor. The sooner people understand that, the better. But I fear it will be too late by the time enough people catch on.

It's not hard to imagine why American industry and production have become so weak. The "solution" that people keep clamoring for is really just an acceleration of this negative trend. ]]>Oct 8th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 7th 2009 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 8th 2009 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/Oct 8th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/07/dell-to-shutter-us-plant-cut-900-jobs-generally-mess-up-someon/http://bit.ly/8opFj.

You can reach me on Twitter (@LionelatDell). Here's a comment from me that provides my other contact info:
http://bit.ly/2vk9cf

Thanks,
LionelatDell]]>Oct 8th 2009 4:36AM