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24/7 Wall St.-The Channel Checkers Survey: Dell (DELL) Solid Results

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SunsetAccording to data from the 24/7 Wall St.-The Channel Checkers survey, Dell (DELL) is doing extremely well in the consumer retail part of the PC industry.

Over the past week, we surveyed general electronics stores such as Best Buy, Radio Shack and few independent locations to track trends in laptop and desktop PC sales  We asked the following questions:

1. How well is Dell selling compared to other brands?
2. What is the top selling Brand right now?
3. What is the top selling model from the top selling brand?

• 73% of respondents stated that Dell computers were selling better than other brands sold at their store location.
• 60% said that Dell was the top brand right now, 27% said that HP (HPQ) was the top brand and 13% said that Sony (SNE) was the top selling brand.
• The Dell Inspiron was the top model according to 40% of respondents the HP Pavillion was tops according to 20%, while the Dell XPS and Sony VAIO were tops according to 10% each.
Conclusion:  The survey shows that Dell computers remain well thought of at least in the consumer electronics retail space. Our survey does not capture corporate or on-line sales but gives some indication to preferences among brands.  We did not see netbooks mentioned in this survey, but the incidence of those models might be indicative of the strength  (or lack of strength) of the netbook trend. Overall the survey reflects positively on Dell’s brand.

For access to the underlying survey or for more information, please contact Jason Katz at 415.867.0959 or [email protected]

Douglas A. McIntyre

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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