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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (176126)	9/5/2008 11:08:29 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

I don't think their model works with laptops actually It once did, when they made their own laptops. That was about the time Kevin Rollins brought his MBA theories to the company. Dell was having occasional troubles with the laptops getting too hot. Rollins crunched some numbers that showed it would be cheaper to buy laptops from Sony than to increase the R&D budget to solve the problems or to further automate the factories. Rollins was rewarded by becoming a member of the triumvirate, and he began proposing outsourcing everything possible. Of course that was just the first market that Dell abandoned to the cheapest bidder. In hindsight it was the high-water mark for Dell, although their most profitable year was a couple years later. TP