Dell raising computer prices?

Not something you see everyday….

I came across this post at Liliputing… turns out that Dell raised the price on their Inspiron 11Z notebook/netbook by $50.

Pricing in the computer industry is more of an art, than a science. You try to figure out what competitors are pricing at, how much demand there will be for a certain product and also to manage your manufacturing / supply chain so you sell what you produce and not have inventory shortages or excess.

Will be interesting to see what drove this? Did Dell get a good response and start to run out of inventory? Or did it hit the holy grail and find that customers were glad to pony up $50 more for the same product (pure profit to the company)