Dell to layoff 6,650 employees as demand for PCs plummets

PCs arent getting any better. We have pushed our replacement schedule out to at least 5 years now. Almost everything is web based and whatever isn't an ssd and a mediocre processor can do for almost anyone that isnt in engineering or development.

I&#x27;ve had three XPS&#x27;s in the past few years, one of them the mouse didn&#x27;t work out the box, the second one started having fan issues after one year, and this current one just freezes randomly for no reason.<p>It sucks because Dell used to be awesome. My dad is still using a 10 year old XPS.

&gt; Following a surge in PC sales during the global covid pandemic, most major computing manufacturers are now seeing a sharp drop in demand.<p>I&#x27;d expect. Most of those PCs are still working and are powerful enough to handle typical demands for several more years. They should have predicted this.

Dell lost my confidence when their XPS 15 display couldn&#x27;t display a pane of gray without flickering. I switched to a Macbook Pro and haven&#x27;t looked back.<p>For me (personally) to consider Dell again, they would have to replicate everything that Framework does and ship Linux with support.<p>Edit: can I also add that they suck for business too? The slim form factor has NO place in business, slimming down the chassis and removing ports is an anti-pattern. I couldn&#x27;t give a shit how thin my work laptop looks, my job doesn&#x27;t involve taking pictures of unrealistically minimalistic office desks. With Dell you either get a dainty oversized netbook or a rugged behemoth (which is a little too rugged unless you&#x27;re in telecom and roll in a van). Where&#x27;s the middle ground? Nothing needed to change from the old thinkpad.

Does this mean I can finally get a high end computer for a decent price? I was in the market for one shortly after the pandemic started, but decided to delay because of the ridiculous prices and shipping times.

If you compare current laptop offers with a Core i5-1235U and Windows 10&#x2F;11 Pro, you&#x27;ll see that at least HP and Lenovo give you significantly more bang for the buck than Dell.

I&#x27;ve moved away from Dell laptops due to a noticeable drop in build quality for their XPS&#x2F;personal laptop line. Dells are good for businesses that can pay for support plans at scale, but I wouldn&#x27;t trust it Dell for a personal machine (I&#x27;ve had a battery swell up, broken keyboard, broken hinge and power button, dead pixels, and a display die just from 3 laptops). But your mileage may vary.

I find the Dell website frustrating, many times I would click on a laptop ad only to find a &#x27;temporarily out of stock&#x27;, message.

Only if they started fixing their hardware issues...

We can&#x27;t get customers to replace equipment. Businesses appear to be intending to run everything into the ground and expect us to just keep fixing stuff forever. We&#x27;re considering an emergency billing rate, when a customer has a predictable failure we&#x27;ve warned them about. Meanwhile, any project that requires new hardware might as well be abandoned.<p>Dell thinks it&#x27;s bad now? It&#x27;s only getting worse.

Today&#x27;s smartphones are very capable devices. I do most coding web based (code-server) on my S22 Ultra using Samsung DeX and an external monitor. My phone has more RAM than the average laptop. There just isn&#x27;t any need for me to buy a new laptop or PC.

Something tells me this is companies cutting BS jobs that were created to subsidize college grads. Just made up jobs and fake growth to fluff numbers and make investors happy.

5% global layoffs, plummets seems like a exageration but we will see