Having lost the top spot to HP, Dell has started to give itself a makeover: selling through Wal-Mart, a retail giant, for example, and adding colour to some products.

在将榜首位置让与惠普之后，戴尔开始了自我改造：例如，通过零售业巨头沃尔玛进行销售，同时为一部分产品外型增加色彩。

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It is the suppliers, rather than HP and Dell, who come up with new designs and technology.

现在是供应商，而不是惠普或者戴尔提供新设计和新技术。

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Analysts said Apple's rivals, HP and Dell, have even less control of their supply chain.

分析师说，苹果的竞争对手如惠普和戴尔，对自己供应链的掌控就更加谈不上。

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Which might be very nice for both Apple and the Chinese manufacturing workers who still have jobs and really rather bad for those who lose them as Dell and HP presumably sell less or move manufacturing elsewhere and certainly would be bad for everyone else who works in Dell, HP and the rest as the companies faced those higher costs.

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However, in the market for servers using so-called x86 processors supplied by Intel and AMD where Dell trails only HP Dell grabbed 23.4% of overall sales, up from 22.1% of overall sales during the year ago period.

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Consider the sorry state of HP and Dell, once proud giants of the PC world.

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