Cost is king in a commodity market where IBM, et. al. left for more profitable waters.
Dell was pretty good at shaving pennies and providing WalMart-ized desktops and servers.
I think the offerings need to be optimized and reduce and cut features to just what's necessary based on actual, intended uses rather than guessing or throwing every possible feature into a retail desktop or offering a blizzard of different, poorly-explained SKUs (what's the diff btwn A78Z-VX and A78C-VX+?)
Dell was pretty good at shaving pennies and providing WalMart-ized desktops and servers.
I think the offerings need to be optimized and reduce and cut features to just what's necessary based on actual, intended uses rather than guessing or throwing every possible feature into a retail desktop or offering a blizzard of different, poorly-explained SKUs (what's the diff btwn A78Z-VX and A78C-VX+?)
Related, see also: http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html