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Hardware vendor, Dell has chosen the Good Guys, as its second retail partner in Australia. The vendor’s foray into channel sales in Australia began with OfficeWorks in May 2007.

Evan Williams, general manager, consumer sales and marketing at Dell Australia, said consumers will be able to buy Dell products with standard configurations, including Inspiron desktops and laptops, Studio Hybrid and Studio laptops, XPS laptops and three different monitors. 

Williams said product pricing will be set by Good Guys, an Australian white goods and audio visual retailer, known for “slashing prices”.

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Source: crn.com.au

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Dell Australia announced on May 1 2008 a major retail partnership with Officeworks, in a deal that will see the retailer selling 10 models of the Round Rock, Texas-based company’s laptops and PCs, as well as printers, ink, and flat panel displays.

So we took a walk down to our local officeworks store in East Perth to check out what was on offer. Overall we were dissapointed with the display of the Dell offerings on display both in terms of range and the actual display which was very sterile and lacked any real impact. With all the bright colours now being offered by Dell we were expecting a fresh high impact display but were disappointed. I guess after travelling so much and seeing the Apple stores overseas as an example the supermarket type setup just doesn’t cut it and does not entice us to buy.

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Also amazing how many people that were checking out all the laptops from various manufacturers and said “Dell are they any good?” or “how are these compared to the more major brands like Toshiba and Acer?”

Dell has announced a major retail partnership with Officeworks, to sell 10 PC models across its 104 outlets.

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Truly unbelievable cock up by Dell. Brand, spanking new Vostro 1310, almost completely unusable due to keyboard mis-alignment. Did I get a faulty unit or are they all like this?!

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