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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (24093)	12/3/1997 7:27:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176388

Paul, They seem to be able to keep up with their shipments. The Lattitudes and Inspiron arive about 13 days after order configured as you like. The Workstation 400 arrives in 7 days. These are working days not calendar and include UPS ground shipment. You can also get them shipped Airborne express. The salesman I spoke to said they did not have enough salesmen to process all the home office/consumer business. One thing is clear they do have their processes down cold. So when they add new people it should not be disruptive.I think they may be having some difficulty hiring new personel do to shortages of qualified people. They may have to recruit in Houston. As far as the fixed assets, I don't know if that is a problem. I don't think so. I am going to be buying two computers from them and upgrading my Optiplex soon for home use. I will see how well they perform and let you know. Regards, Jim Kelley

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (24093)	12/3/1997 8:40:00 PM
From: Meathead	Respond to of 176388

Paul re: Jim, the one concern I do have about Dell is it's ability to keep up with demand. This is one of the points I've been making to all those who are convinced Dell should dive head first into the high volume sub-zero segment. Can you imagine how that might stress the organization? I toured the new Austin facility about 2 weeks after everyone on this thread. I asked about capacity there and they said they are only running two shifts right now and didn't have all the mod's up.. Average daily volume is about 7500 systems. If I remember correctly, at full capacity w/ three shifts, all mods, they would max out at about 20k/day. Current output from "all" factories WW is about 20k/day right now. My guess is that they could easily double to 40k without a new factory and will likely be there in 8-10 quarters... thats why they're looking to build another factory.... soon! MEATHEAD