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Photos: Inside Dell's Austin assembly plant

Photo credit: Michael Kanellos

Desktop PCs ride a series of conveyor belts and elevators (square tower seen at right) in the 300,000-square-foot plant.

11 comments

wow..: ..i sure hope dell moves here to winston-salem so we can pay them millions in subsidies for mid 20k a year jobs :(
Posted by lewissalem (167 comments ): October 29, 2004 9:58 AM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag

That was cool: That was cool, even if I do not own a dell
Posted by (2 comments ): October 29, 2004 2:10 PM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag

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.
Posted by davidf1234 (2 comments ): October 30, 2004 7:38 AM (PDT) Like Reply Link Flag

Cool: Hi,
I work in Dell.Its nice to see these cool pictures!
regards,
Anil Alias.
Posted by anilalias (16 comments ): October 31, 2004 12:07 PM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

Employees: Of course the employees aren't smiling.
Posted by firstmagnitude (7 comments ): November 5, 2004 9:27 PM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

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.
Posted by Blazer2008 (4 comments ): November 10, 2004 10:47 PM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

Nice pics

These were particularly interesting.

November 18, 2004 12:09 PM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

No seriously: They really were.
Posted by Yuzer_Nayme (70 comments ): November 19, 2004 9:50 AM (PST) Like Link Flag

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.
Posted by Not Bugged (196 comments ): December 7, 2004 6:31 PM (PST) Like Link Flag

looks like my apartment and my best friends also!: looks like my apartment and my best friends also!
Posted by shulickp (1 comment ): November 20, 2006 3:29 PM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

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