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Intel still sells boards - they're just made by large contractors (Hon
Hai/Foxconn, ASUS, etc.).
Foxconn is indeed one of Dell's largest suppliers - they make most of
the boards for the Dell-assembled systems (8400, OptiPlex towers, etc.).
They also make most of Dell's cases as well (Foxconn is Hon Hai of
Taiwan/China, owns Flextronics, which bought out Palo Alto Products,
which had been Dell's case supplier for years).
In the IT world, almost everything is made by someone other than who
sells it - and Hon Hai is one of the largest ghost manufacturers.
Dell just signed a far-reaching contract with Mitac, which makes the
budget systems for Dell - and which also makes many of Dell's server
systems as well.
S.Lewis wrote:
> "Edward J. Neth" <ejn63@netscape.net> wrote in message
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>>Intel no longer makes mainboards.
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>>The 2400, 3000, 4600 and 4700 systems are made for Dell by Mitac in China.
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> Have they (Intel) stopped making retail boards?
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> In addition to Mitac, I think Foxconn is also making some of those systems,
> but where who knows - probably asia as well.
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