Anyone know Dell revenue breakdown between business and consumer laptops ?

Specifically, between business, lower grade consumer (inspirons, studio), and XPS line ?

 

Since I saw the video where an open screen lid makes the hinge block the fan exhaust, I doubt the XPS is higher grade consumer

 

Take a look at their financial section:

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/...nancials/index?~ck=ln&c=us&l=en&lnki=0&s=corp

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/corporate/sec/Q410KFY08.html

There's a little chart some ways down that second link that effectively says:

Business: 50.8%
U.S. Consumer: 14.3%

Business holding up the fort by a long shot. But they don't give breakdowns for non-US sales.

 

im betting its just as high overseas. all the businesses i've seen in singapore and malaysia use either HP or Dell, its pretty much the same where ever i travel.

 

That is a bit disconcerting considering that many large corporations are suspending purchases of new systems and/or also switching to VMware VDI, making the future seem even bleaker for manfacturers...

 

thats why they all seem to be betting the farm on netbooks this year lol

 

Nah i say the future is alright still. People say hey we can virtualize the systems such that we dont need powerful workstations anymore. Well the majority of corporations do not replace the computers because they are slow, they replace them because their warranty is up and out of warranty repairs are expensive. I know where i work, everyone would be fine on PIII machines. The only reason they have new dual core ones is because that is all that can be bought. We get them with a 4 year warranty and keep them for about 5 or 6 if we can before getting rid of them because parts become too expensive then.

Example, 1 PIII 933 mhz cpu from dell is about $249 last i remember. Thats nearly the price of a whole new computer!

Purchases are made when its no longer effective to repair the old equipment.

So it doesn't matter if your running a fast VM session on the servers for all of the clients, you still need a reliable host computer for the workers to connect to it with.

 

But you have to take into account all of the systems that were returned when their users got laid off...plenty of spare parts there. The mountain of D600s and D610s will probably be used as spare parts and never reissued...

The VM session would only be slowed down by the internet connection. It doesn't take much to put a screenshot on the screen.

I personally do not like the concept of so much virtualization, but that's where we're headed...

 

Thanks.

From their 10K:
Net revenue 61,133M
Net income 2,947M

If I'm reading that right, Dell just gets to keep 5% of sale price as profit after paying off its employees. Thats staggeringly low. For a $600 laptop, its only $30 Wow.

Did you guys also see that US consumer revenue has been declining for the past 3 years ? Surprising, I was unde the impression dell was improving its products.

From Apples:
Net revenue 10,167M
Net income: 1,605M
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/21results.html

15% profit after expenses and taxes. Thats more reasonable.
But I'm still a bit surprised, I thought Apple would be making more money?

 

The reason? HP.

 

Yes, and also the economy.

 

True, but the economy was more of an amplifier than a cause...