Dell is offering $18 a share for 3Par, an 87 percent premium over Friday's closing price for the company, based in Fremont, Calif.
One big one is that the court could award shareholders less than the $13.65 a share that Mr. Dell is offering.
But many shareholders may not realize that they have an intriguing alternative that could generate more money than Mr. Dell is offering: requesting that a court appraise the company's long-term value.
That Dell is offering a plan without paying a dividend may also spur other non-dividend paying companies, including those outside the tech sector, to reconsider offering programs.
Today, Dell is offering the same machine with only 64 MB of memory, letting customers apply the difference toward things like a larger capacity hard drive or bigger monitor.
Dell is offering a 12-month warranty extension for those of you suffering (or about to suffer) from faultily manufactured GeForce GPUs on your laptops.
5. Now, we are moving to the issue #2: On 1/17/2011 I have received a solicitation, sent to my email address directly from Dell, and offering 35% discount on the entire combined ordered I placed just two-and-a-half weeks ago!
With this reduction taken into consideration, the total purchase price I paid for all I bought was down to $3,680.25 . 5 Now, we are moving to the issue #2: On 1/17/2011 I have received a solicitation, sent to my email address directly from Dell, and offering 35% discount on the entire combined ordered I placed just two-and-a-half weeks ago!
Interestingly, Dell is not offering a traditional hard drive at all; instead it uses solid-state memory to store the operating system, programs and data.
Even though WiMAX is only available in Atlanta, Baltimore, and Portland, Dell is now offering up the wireless broadband as an option on select notebooks.
