[JohnBooty]

    The other driving variable, which I left to implication, was inertia.

Right. That's pretty orthogonal to "how many laptop models is enough laptop models?" though.

    No, there's really not. I've already explained the main variable here: Price.

So, I would like to be very clear: I understand that price is an important factor. Vostros are cheap and though you disagreed, your company viewed price as the most important thing. Many people and companies feel that way. I do understand that.

That does not even remotely explain why Dell has so many lines and models.

Most companies manage to have budget lines/models without such a brain-melting array of choices. You keep writing, essentially, "well we kept buying dell so I guess it worked!!!!"

But I could just as easily say "a lot of companies don't buy Dell, and Apple has like 100x the market value with like 1/10 of the models so obviously Dell is stupid" but that would not be accurate either because there are a looooooot of other variables.

Anyway, this conversation is going nowhere, and you don't have anything insightful to say, so thank you and good bye.