The layoffs are the only thing you can count on at Dell!
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@f3 I’m sure those went to the refurb market.
Refresh never came. IT leaders could care less about an AI PC when they can just serve up cloud solutions to their end users. The funniest part is that CSG leadership doesn’t know much about AI themselves and will tell customers they NEED all these bells and whistles when in reality they don’t and CSG leadership will swear that they do.
Customers are trying to extend the life of every data center asset.
No, the big pc refresh didn't come.
Not for Dell, not for HP, not for Lenovo. The 3 big OEM vendors have been feeding their shareholders with this big PC refresh BS for almost two years now, but market data show this hasn't happened.
Also, this refresh narrative has originated and been fueled exclusively by manufacturers: Microsoft had the potential trigger (win 10 eol), paid some big name to pack a "market research" showing business customers were eager to throw loads of money for the new Copilot + PCs, fed its one shareholders with this cr-p and passed over the "research" to OEM.
Who did the same, fueling their own shareholders with the same BS, just to avoid admitting that nobody cares about Copilot+ PCs and that no big pipelines could be justified.
I just placed an order on dell.com and enjoyed the 17% discount.
@dz Who knows how many laptops are in storage collecting dust from all the layoffs over the last 2-3 years. 30k?
@d8 If the “AI machines” are such a leap forward, why wasn’t I issued one last month when my old one was due for replacement?
It’s like VW giving me a 1976 Superbeetle. Good for it’s time but now a tad obsolete.
@b1 Since I turned in my Dell machine upon termination the only computers in our house are Apple. They last along time and any issues, which I had one in the past ten years, are dealt with by Apple or authorized service.
There’s no finger pointing by the company that makes the OS and the company that assembled the hardware. If there’s an issue, they own it.
Far more security and privacy built in, too.
It happens every quarter. It's the low hanging fruit. C'mon, get all in.
here's the problem, they're hoping 'Ai' PCs will sell, well, for a true AI PC you need a really good GPU (very expensive) and lots of RAM (400% rise is cost in last 6m), so they're left with npu on the processor, again $$ to get good, and Windows 11 does done lite audio and image processing on that, wake words, things like that, but it's not what most ppl think of AI, that's in the servers, which ARE doing extremely well. An AI PC today basically just means it talks to copilot in the cloud, so not really AI on the PC, which means no real incentive to buy, no differentiated performance, high cost. frankly, replacing an older system's spinning or older SATA SSD with a good nvme drive replacement, Gen 3 or better, will make it perform quite well, no other changes needed. the main thing to drive PC sales would be something actually innovative, perhaps cosmetics, forced OS requirement, etc. actual investment in engineers might help.
Hard to tell with Dell hiding this all under the complete PC portfolio names changed this year. Copycat of the Apple name scheme was a really poor marketing idea that some Apple lover in HQ thought would help boost Dells market share . WTH would Dell through out 30+ years of name recognition like Latitude, Precision, etc to mimic Pro, Pro Max , etc like Apple if they weren’t desperate? MD should just sell off the PC division already and let it run online and through the Channel.
No of course not because our stupid greedy leaders at our company are too stupid to thing that AI and Windows 10 EOL is going to replicate a COVID like refresh event.
Yes the great pc refresh happened already, for our competition.
@a3 lol why would you buy an apple? They aren't bad computers but for the price, you can go buy a Razor laptop for a little more and get a LOT more out of it...
Brother get with the times. PC refresh was 5 minutes ago. We don't care about consumers when AI exists.
I purchased an Apple with my severance.