RE: [ukha_d] £99 Dell server - great!

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll be going over there in a few weeks, and to have a look at their
'command centre' - a very un-Dell like building (i.e. it cost money), but
it's there to impress the important customers.
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A few of the PE's are going EOL, so these may well have been stockpiled -
it's not unusual if they need to re-tool the production line.
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Pete

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From: John Andrews [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 09 April 2005 01:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] =A399 Dell server - great!


If you ever get the chance to go around their factory, take them up on it -
it is an achievement in automation.
Lee is right, almost every machine is built to order and as you have seen,
customisable in almost every way.
Their corporate sales is also very pressured, they can tell at any moment
how many servers / workstations sold that month and can compare it against
the other big boys like HP.



-----Original Message-----
From: LeeUKHA [mailto:mailinglists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 April 2005 23:28
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] =A399 Dell server - great!



I doubt it, Dell where featured on Working Lunch as while back, IIRC it
only take a Dell employee about 90 secs to build a PC...

The unpacked parts turn up in a tray on a conveyor belt, an electric
screwdriver on a flexible cable hangs overhead, there's a minor scuffle
and the finished PC carries on down the conveyor belt...

Lee




Paul Gale wrote:

> I guess they had these ready to ship rather than building to order?
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> > From: David Greaves [mailto:david@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 08 April 2005 10:20
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> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] =A399 Dell server - great!
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> > I was feeling quite neglected...
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> > But mine just arrived too <grin>
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> > > Oh - and the diagnostics software included on the CD/HDD is
good :)
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> > > If you are trying it out - can you test the CPU fan - seems
to be OK
> > > until the test is finished and then it goes ballistic and
the fan
> > > screams away for a bit then slows right down. An error
message then
> > > pops up. Would be interesting if you get the same?
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> > > Paul.
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