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    Dell sell's 140,000+ units, EVERY DAY!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by JimRoss, Jun 12, 2005.

  1. JimRoss

    JimRoss Notebook Enthusiast

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    Electronics have a 5% failure rate, within the first 90 days. This was considered industry standard a few years ago ( not sure what its at today ). With Dell selling 140,000+ units every day, that means 7,000 of those units "should" fail. Its no wonder some people complain about new machines breaking down. Problem is, we dont hear from the other 133,000+ people that have no problem. [ :D]

    Oh yea, I read that Dell sales figure in an article on NBF.

    Jim

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    they're moving some serious laptops, I'm assuming that's a figure for the amount sold worldwide, there's no way they sell that many in the U.S. (I don't think at least)

    You're totally right on the fact that we have to remember you'll hear a lot of complaints about Dell because they simply ship more notebooks than anybody else.

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    Here's a link to the article:

    http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,1464517,00.html

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    Thats just over 51 million units yearly. Even if the failure rate was only 2 percent, that would be over 1 million dead units a year...WOW, no wonder the remanufactured computer business is so big.


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    yea...that is a big number 2 consider

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