[Sheflug] Re: Dell flooding the market .....

["Richard Ibbotson" <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/servers_Q4
> _W5_pedge_1600sc_pe1218?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd
> 
> The delivery charge is a bit steep at £49+VAT with total cost of
> single 
> default item at just under £174 incl. VAT.  You get (I think) a
> dual 
> processor board with one processor on it.  If you are rich then for
> a 
> further £174 you get another 80G HDD and the second processor.



Hmm.. at last.. someone has been taking notice of the letters that I 
have written to my own MP about high cost of hardware at places like 
PC World - for example :)

I think this *might* be the lead in to what comes next.  Since IBM 
have sold on something like $1Bn to $2Bn of hardware business to our 
Chinese friends then the ultimate in competition and such like is 
about to begin.  Okay, maybe I've got it wrong somewhere but a lot of 
IBM hardware will now be made in China.  The Chinese might not bring 
down the cost of hardware to ourselves in Europe but the threat of it 
might be worrying companies like Dell.
 
Could be that all hardware will be made in China.


Richard


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