INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
[Disclosure: All of the vendors mentioned are clients of the author.]I&m at Dell Technology Summit this week, and one of the interesting
stats from Sam Bird, the impressive executive that heads Dell Technology personal systems unit, is that they&ve had the strongest sales year
Dell is only Number 3 in volume, but they are Number 1 with a bullet in revenue and profit.This showcases that for companies that execute &
including spending money on R-D and marketing & the PC business is as strong, or, in the case of Dell Technologies, stronger than it ever
been.Let face it: The PC old days kind of sucked
I started as the lead analyst in operating systems for Dataquest back in 1994 and rose with
Back then, people didn&t build their own PCs, and I was one of the first to take a motherboard, processor, hard drive and memory and build
Laptop performance was a bad joke, battery life was measured in minutes and a lightweight laptop weighed around 6 lbs
That first PC I built never was stable, took me around two months (part-time) to configure, and the motherboard was held in the case with
tape and rubber furniture feet because the mounting holes in the motherboard didn&t match the holes in the case.
