Activity: Follow the product

LAPTOP DELL

1. List down the main ingredients or raw materials in manufacturing the chosen product.
Identify the corresponding country from which each ingredient or raw material came
from.
 LCD- South Korea
 Battery- Japan
 Motherboard- China
 Graphics System- Taiwan
 CPU- Chandler,
 Arizona Chipset- Malaysia RAM-- Boise,
 Idaho PCTel Modem- Chin
 a Hard drive- Thailand
 Case- Taiwan
2. Identify the countries involved in the manufacturing of the chosen product. Indicate
the corresponding service the country does for the product
 The components of came from different countries and they assemble it on
specific countries: 95% of Dell laptops are manufactured in Penang, Malaysia,
and Xiamen China. Dell also has large manufacturing plants in Limerick, Ireland,
and Lodz, Poland.
. 3.Aside from the Philippines, list other countries in which the product is being sold.

 Operating in 180 countries globally

 Serving 99% of Fortune 500 companies

Americas, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,
Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada,
Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Latin America & Caribbean, Mexico,
Netherlands, Antilles/Curaçao, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St.
Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago,
Turks & Caicos Islands, United States, Uruguay, US Virgin, Islands Venezuela, Europe
Middle East, & Africa Albania Algeria Arabic French Angola Armenia Austria
Azerbaijan Bahrain Belarus Belgium Dutch French Benin Bosnia-Herzegovina
Botswana Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African
Republic Chad CIS Comoros Congo Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic
Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Egypt Equatorial
Guinea Estonia Ethiopia Finland France French Guiana French Overseas Territories
French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guadeloupe
Guinea Hungary Iceland Iraq Ireland Israel English Hebrew Italy Ivory Coast (Cote
D'Ivoire) Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia
Libya Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Mali Malta Martinique
Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Middle East Arabic English Moldova Montenegro
Montserrat Morocco Arabic French Mozambique Namibia Netherlands New Caledonia
Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Poland Portugal Qatar Reunion Romania Russia Rwanda
Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Slovakia Slovenia Somalia South
Africa Spain Swaziland Sweden Switzerland French German Tajikistan Tanzania Togo
Tunisia Arabic French Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom Uzbekistan Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe • Asia Pacific Afghanistan Asia
Pacific Australia Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Christmas Island Cook
Islands East Timor Fiji Guam Hong Kong Chinese English India Indonesia Japan
Kiribati Korea Laos Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nauru Nepal New Zealand
Northern Marianas Islands Pakistan Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Samoa
Singapore Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Vietnam.

4.Cite the kinds of technology that made the creation of the product possible. Consider
communications and transportation.

 They raise notebook mobility, reliability and usability to new levels with Intel
Centrino™ and Pentium® M technology, an advanced and light durable chassis
made with Latitude Tri-Metal™, long battery life and the latest communications
technology (802.11 and Gigabit1 LAN).

Dell also presents users with products featuring innovative Hyper-Threading

technology. Dell Precision Workstations and OptiPlex GX260, GX270, SX260
and SX270 processors with the 800MHz front side bus use Hyper-Threading
designed to maximize a machine’s ability to work on more than one action
simultaneously. Hyper Threading allows for advanced gains in productivity,
making these systems an extraordinary solution for customers

5. Write one to three statements about the creation of the product. Share your
statement with your group mates and indicate whether you agree or disagree with their
statements.

 The product is based on the needs and wants of the customers; they build your
computer based on customers’ satisfaction. High quality of components/
materials used. Dell products meets the strictest guidelines and has latest
technology that is relevant to the customer.