Who is the owner of Dell laptops?

Dell was born in 1965 in Houston to a Jewish family. His parents were Lorraine Charlotte (née Langfan), a stockbroker,^[6] and Alexander Dell, an orthodontist. Michael attended Herod Elementary School in Houston.^[7] In a bid to enter business early, he applied to take a high school equivalency exam at age eight.^[8] In his early teens, he invested his earnings from part-time jobs in stocks and precious metals.^[9]

Dell purchased his first calculator at age seven and encountered an early teletype terminal in junior high. At age 15, after playing with computers at Radio Shack, he got his first computer, an Apple II, which he promptly disassembled to see how it worked.^[10] Dell attended Memorial High School in Houston, selling subscriptions to the Houston Post in the summer.^[11] Dell's parents wanted him to be a doctor and in order to please them, he took up pre-med at the University of Texas in 1983.^[12] Dell continued learning to target specific populations for newspaper subscriptions rather than just making cold calls.^[13] He discovered that people who were most likely to get a subscription were newlyweds and people moving to a new home. After collecting the contact information of this population from public records, he sent direct mail appeals and earned $18,000 in one year.^[11] He hired several employees, and after earning a gross profit of nearly $200,000 in his first year of business, Dell dropped out of the University of Texas at age 19.

While a freshman pre-med student at the University of Texas, Dell started an informal business putting together and selling upgrade kits for personal computers in Room 2713 of the Dobie Center residential building.^[15][16] He then applied for a vendor license to bid on contracts for the State of Texas, winning bids by not having the overhead of a computer store.^[17][18][19]

In January 1984, Dell believed that the potential cost savings of a manufacturer selling PCs directly had enormous advantages over the conventional indirect retail channel.^[20] In January 1984, Dell registered his company as "PC's Limited". Dell’s strategy was to sell directly to customers by manufacturing computers only after they were ordered.^[21] Operating out of a condominium, the business sold between $50,000 and $80,000 worth of PC upgrades, kits, and add-on components. In May, Dell incorporated the company as "Dell Computer Corporation" and relocated to a business center in North Austin. The company employed a few people as order takers, a few more to fill the orders, and, as Dell recalled, a manufacturing staff consisting of "three guys with screwdrivers sitting at six-foot tables". The venture's capitalization cost was $1,000.^[22][23] During the formative years of Dell Computer, Dell was mentored by Morton Meyerson.