Dell's direct model enables us to keep low component inventories that enable us to give customers immediate savings when component prices are reduced, ... Because of our inventory management, Dell is able to offer some of the newest technologies at low prices while our competitors struggle to sell off older products.

A few may still be pulled out, but most of what we're going to see over the next few days is frustration.

Dell is clearly a PC company, but increasingly as we go forward, we are more and more of an Internet company. The Internet is part of everything in the way we do business with our customers.

With the subsidized PC model, you may be getting less hardware than you're going to want to do all the cool stuff that's out there on the Internet.

It's getting harder for customers to evaluate what's being offered.

There`s no shortage of ambulances for emergency situations - none.

While most of our customers continue to buy performance-class PCs with Pentium III processors, others want a second, low-cost PC with the service and support Dell is known for.

We believe in the strength of the High Point market and its impact economically on the Triad and the state.