One of the first companies to sell the product of this nature by themselves - even when Internet was not that widespread nor Amazon was selling things like hot cake.
And boy, they were selling a lot since they were passing on the saved expenses to market through different channels to the consumers. A model that did last long - until a few years ago when they had to revert back to Staples and other retailer chain to sell their product- the Dell Computers.Personal experience based on couple of OLD laptops (running Windows XP) have been excellent - but the world is lot different now so....