Importance of Consumer Sales to Dell's bottom line

How important are consumer sales to Dell's bottom line? Are they able
to easily take a hit with consumers not buying during Vista's early
period?

I am going to wait for there to be better incentives. When I price
Dell laptops without the incentives I have been used to, Dell no
longer seems as compelling over other options.

I am hoping that consumer laptop sales will stall in a major way and
that to pick things up they will offer incentives like their $750 off
for purchases of $1,999 and above.

I know there will always be things to wait for. With Vista, I would
like to see 2G of RAM to be more affordable. Right now there are
other reasons to wait rather than just the $750 off promotions.

If I have to shell out big bucks for a Dell laptop, I may get a Lenovo
-- one of them with a modular battery bay.

"journey" <> wrote in message
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> How important are consumer sales to Dell's bottom line? Are they able
> to easily take a hit with consumers not buying during Vista's early
> period?
>
> I am going to wait for there to be better incentives. When I price
> Dell laptops without the incentives I have been used to, Dell no
> longer seems as compelling over other options.
>
> I am hoping that consumer laptop sales will stall in a major way and
> that to pick things up they will offer incentives like their $750 off
> for purchases of $1,999 and above.
>
> I know there will always be things to wait for. With Vista, I would
> like to see 2G of RAM to be more affordable. Right now there are
> other reasons to wait rather than just the $750 off promotions.
>
> If I have to shell out big bucks for a Dell laptop, I may get a Lenovo
> -- one of them with a modular battery bay.

Steep uplift on a Lenavo. Great machines, but still much more expensive.