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Dell intends to sell 30 million notebooks next year

by Mark Tyson on 22 July 2014, 09:53

Tags: Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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Dell has plans to boost its notebook sales by as much as 40 per cent next year. Taiwanese computer business journal DigiTimes reports that the system building giant is getting quotes from various Taiwan-based notebook ODMs to output 30 million Dell branded notebooks next year. In other Dell business related news, the company has become one of the biggest businesses to accept Bitcoin payments for its goods and services.

Dell's notebook thrust

This year industry analysts estimate that Dell will ship just over 20 million notebooks so being able to boost that number to 30 million would be a significant feat. However DigiTimes says that Dell has ordered production of 30 million notebooks, split 50:50 between Compal Electronics and Wistron, for next year.

It is noted that most of the increased take-up will be from enterprise. This ties in with what we recently heard from Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich. In a call discussing financial quarterly earning Krzanich told the WSJ that "The installed base of PCs that are at least four years old is now roughly 600 million units, and we are seeing clear signs of a refresh in the enterprise and small and medium businesses." Indeed the DigiTimes report mentions the end of support for Windows XP resulting in fresh demand for enterprise notebooks. Another nugget of information from Taiwan is that Dell's Alienware laptops are also "seeing strong sales" recently.

Dell accepts Bitcoin payments

Dell is also in the news by becoming one of the biggest companies so far to begin to accept Bitcoin payments. "We're piloting Bitcoin, the world's most widely used digital currency, as a purchase option on Dell.com for consumer and small business shoppers in the U.S." the firm wrote on its blog.

In its 'How to pay with Bitcoin' video Dell starts by informing us that "Bitcoin digital currency makes it possible to buy and sell online from anywhere in the world," which would be nice, but this Bitcoin payment pilot scheme is only for US residents… US readers might also be interested to hear that Dell is currently offering 10 per cent off its Alienware gaming laptops (up to a maximum discount of $150) if you pay using Bitcoin.

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Posted by Jowsey - Tue 22 Jul 2014 10:06
…40 % sales boost this year…

Have the people at Dell finally lost the plot? That's a ridiculous sales figure.
Posted by crossy - Tue 22 Jul 2014 10:32
50% increase in shipments, are Dell going to going for very attractive pricing, (to win market share), or have they seen something in an apparently shrinking market that everyone else has missed?

One thing though - if they're pushing their suppliers that hard is quality going to take a nose-dive? Seem to remember HP tried to be similarly aggressive stance in the past and ended up turning machines that were “problematic” which damaged their image.
Posted by GuidoLS - Thu 24 Jul 2014 06:00
And, knowing Dell quality (or lack thereof), a repair/return rate of 40%, at the least, is probably expected. (80-85% of my repaira are Dell machines, including Dell branded Alienware machines - laptops, desktops and web-books. I don't touch tablets… I do value what little sanity I have left)

Simply put, their stuff breaks fairly regularly.
Posted by LSG501 - Thu 24 Jul 2014 19:26
GuidoLS
And, knowing Dell quality (or lack thereof), a repair/return rate of 40%, at the least, is probably expected. (80-85% of my repaira are Dell machines, including Dell branded Alienware machines - laptops, desktops and web-books. I don't touch tablets… I do value what little sanity I have left)

Simply put, their stuff breaks fairly regularly.
Really…. I've never had an issue with a dell laptop (business ones) or dell screens….hell I'd go as far as to say the dell I've used have been the best laptops I've used (macbooks have nice metal case but they're useless for me as they don't run my 3D design programs). HP business laptops on the other hand… not so good.
Posted by GuidoLS - Thu 24 Jul 2014 21:04
LSG501
Really…. I've never had an issue with a dell laptop (business ones) or dell screens….hell I'd go as far as to say the dell I've used have been the best laptops I've used (macbooks have nice metal case but they're useless for me as they don't run my 3D design programs). HP business laptops on the other hand… not so good.

I didn't qualify, but most of the Dell machines I work on are typically purchased at WalMart, Best Buy or Target… far from business class. I'd *almost* go as far as saying Leapfrog (stuff for kids) is better. They don't make their own monitors - they're typically either rebranded BenQ's (which aren't bad) or Samsung units (which are typically very good). I get machines a lot of times with dead (or dying) drives, and certain lines in the Dimension series were infamous for having memory slots going bad. And they still have issues with far too much bloatware, and making said software overly difficult for people to remove.

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