Comments on: Photos: Inside Dell's Austin assembly plant

The 300,000-square-foot facility begins to buzz around 8 a.m. and churns continuously for a 10-hour shift (12 on the weekend).

[lewissalem]

wow..

..i sure hope dell moves here to winston-salem so we can pay them millions in subsidies for mid 20k a year jobs :(

That was cool

That was cool, even if I do not own a dell

[davidf1234]

HAL?....Hello HAL? Are you in there?

Some day HAL9000 will rise from the Dell plant and control the earth, the solar system, the universe. Remember it all started here.

[anilalias]

Cool

Hi,
I work in Dell.Its nice to see these cool pictures!
regards,
Anil Alias.

[firstmagnitude]

Employees

Of course the employees aren't smiling.

[Blazer2008]

Super Duper

Dell came to Tennessee a few years ago to install multi million dollar factories just like we are now hearing about NC. The tax incentives are great and employment numbers are what politicians look forward to using to get re-elected. Look at all the tax money being used to lure Dell into business. I do not know what business would not mind having the ability to pull that type of tax relief, plus make astounding profits. Things will die down in the future as the market gets saturated. While working in Dell I could not imagine where, or who was purchasing all the computers being pumped out every minute. It is an amazing process - which allows Dell to hire through Temp. Employment services so relieve the worker comp, healthcare costs and write off the cost of the employees as a back end tax kick.

[Yuzer_Nayme]

Nice pics

These were particularly interesting.

[Yuzer_Nayme]

No seriously

They really were.

[Not Bugged]

It is very cool

Actually they are fascinating. I work at Broadcom and some of our networking boards end up in Dell PCs. It's fascinating to see the place where those weird requirments for manufacturing diagnostics come from. Now I can better understand why we have to write software the exactly mimics the last set of manufacturing diags that they used, because they cannot afford to retrain all those employees.

[shulickp]

looks like my apartment and my best friends also!

looks like my apartment and my best friends also!