What the Dell?

Jeff Taylor | October 20, 2004

Aren't tech manufacturing jobs fleeing the U.S. for low-wage countries? American workers cannot compete, right? Soon we'll all be working part-time at Wal-Mart without health benefits and selling junk on eBay just to stay afloat.

Someone forgot to tell Dell, which is expected to announce plans for another U.S. PC plant soon.

"The issue has become one of logistics: The cost of moving a PC around is more expensive than the cost of labor" to build it, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins tells CNET.