Chinese Retailer Gome to Sell Dell PCs
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Dell joins its competitors on the shelves of the biggest Chinese electronics retailer.
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Don't look on the Dell Web site for home AMD-based PCs. The company is selling them only in brick and mortar stores or via phone orders now.
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Dell Inc  said it would sell personal computers, printers, monitors and ink supplies in 1,400 Staples Inc  stores in the United States, its latest move into retail after breaking from 23 years of selling directly to consumers.
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IBM, the company that invented the PC, has put its PC business up for sale, according to the New York Times, and is in discussions with China&#39;s largest maker of personal computers, Lenovo Group (formerly Legend Group), and at least one other potential
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SAN FRANCISCO/ BOSTON  - Dell Inc.  said on Thursday it plans to start selling personal computers through Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  in North America next month, breaking from a 23-year model of direct sales as it tries to rekindle business.
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Dell Inc said on Friday it had  cut from its Web site most consumer computers with chips from  Advanced Micro Devices Inc and would sell AMD-based PCs mainly  in stores and by phone.
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Since January of this year, Dell Computer has been tailoring its sales model to fit changing market dynamics. Its very successful direct sales approach is simply not the best way to get through to certain markets. China is a shining example of this, and Dell announced today that it will distribute PCs through Gome, China's largest consumer electronics retailer.
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Retailer will begin offering Gateway notebook and desktop PCs next month.
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Dell has begun selling two PCs and a notebook pre-installed with the Ubuntu Linux distributions, responding to demand from Linux enthusiasts on its IdeaStorm site.
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IBM has reached an agreement in principle to sell its personal computer business to Lenovo, China&#39;s largest PC maker, in a deal valued at between $1 billion and $2 billion, people close to the negotiations said Monday.
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Dell will sell PCs through stores in Asia and Australia, talking to retail partners now.
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(InfoWorld) - Underlining its expansion from online to retail sales, Dell launched desktop and notebook PCs Tuesday at Macy's department store in New York. The company announced nine new Inspiron desktops and notebooks and an XPS M1330 notebook, all available in a choice of eight shell colors. "The Dell of today is vastly different from the Dell of six months ago or even last week," said Alex Gruzen, senior vice president of Dellâs consumer product group. "We're here at Macy's in New York City. That alone is different for Dell, being in a department store or any kind of retail setting at all." Dell even set up a portable kiosk to take orders for the new PCs in a temporary space it will occupy at Macy's for the next two weeks, he said. The new Inspiron notebooks cost $749 for the model 1521 to $999 for the model 1720, with a choice of processors from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. The Inspiron 1420 comes with an additional choice of Microsoft's Windows Vista or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, for $799. The Inspiron desktops start at $349 for models 530, 530s, 531, and 531s, all supporting up to 500GB of disk space to store digital media files, with the model 530 offering a choice between Windows and Linux. The XPS M1330 notebook costs $1,299 with a 13.3-inch widescreen display, weighs under 4 pounds, and comes with a one-year subscription to Dell's Online Backup service, where users can store 10GB of files on Dell servers for remote data access. In an effort to bolster its sliding market share and quarterly profits,Â Dell began selling certain PC models at Wal-MartÂ retail stores on June 10, marking the first time it had strayed from the direct sales model. Dell rose to prominence by cutting its costs through eliminating retail middlemen and selling its PCs through only its Web site, phone lines, and catalogs. That system began to fail in 2006, as competitors cut costs and Hewlett-Packard passed Dell to become the world's largest PC vendor. Now Dell is in the midst of a corporate reorganization announced May 31 that includesÂ laying off 10 percent of its 88,100 workers. Dell hopes its new retail presence will allow it to fix a strategic mistake. By trying to beat its competitors through low prices in recent years, Dell found itself spending all its publicity efforts promoting its least exciting products, Gruzen said. Selling PCs in retail stores gives Dell an opportunity to showcase its premium PC models and bring new luster to its corporate image at the same time. "This is really just a hint of what we're doing to get these exciting new products into customers' hands," Gruzen said. "We have a broader retail strategy, and over the coming months, we will announce more partnerships, both with Wal-Mart and with other retailers." Also on Tuesday, Dell unveiled a new marketing tagline -- "yours is here" -- that shares many values with HP's "the computer is personal again" campaign. Both companies are increasing the number of options they give customers to personalize PCs and bundling tools that make it easier to handle personal tasksÂ such asÂ digital photos and music as well as business jobs. Dell emphasized those increased choices with its color options for each PC, including pink, yellow, green, red, and blue, as well as standard white and black. An increasing number of PC vendors will soon begin to follow that pattern, trying to differentiate themselves with flashy style and design instead of solely through technical detailsÂ such asÂ processing power, according to a report released this week by Forrester Research. "The consumer PC industry is entering the Age of Style, a time in which radical form factor innovations, increased aesthetic diversity, and consumer choice and personalization will determine which models, and which PC vendors, win or lose," Forrester analyst J.P. Gownder said in the report.
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In a highly anticipated announcement, IBM (Quote, Chart) confirmed late Tuesday it is selling its PC division to China&#39;s Lenovo Group.
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Dell Inc. DELL.O, the world's  largest PC maker, could announce an expanded selection of its  consumer electronics line in the next several weeks, a retail  industry analyst said on Wednesday.
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Dell Inc  said on Friday  it had cut from its Web site most consumer computers with chips  from Advanced Micro Devices Inc  and would sell  AMD-based PCs mainly in stores and by phone.
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Dell Inc.  said on Friday it will start selling consumer notebook computers at more than 500 of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s  Sam's Club stores starting next week, its latest move to sell computers in retail chains.
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(InfoWorld) - Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the U.S. as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers. More details will be revealed later, wrote Lionel Menchaca, digital media manager for Dell on a company blog on Friday. "I wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States," Menchaca wrote. Dell is also encouraging more members of its Linux engineering team to post technical updates about specific distributions and open-source projects, he added. Dell began sellingÂ two desktop PCs and a laptop with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution preinstalled in the U.S. in May, a move the company said was in response to consumer demand. Although Linux's success has been squarely in the server market, consumers areÂ showing increased interestÂ in the open-source operating system as a desktop OS alternative to Microsoft's Windows. Desktop Linux has tended to have more appeal among developers and computer enthusiasts. Dell already offers other Linux distributions from market leaders Red Hat and Novell on some of its servers and its Precision workstation line. Â