Made-to-order PC maker Dell posted the results for its first quarter today. The company managed to improve revenue by 9% year over year from 14.72 billion to 16.07 billion dollars. The net income grew 4%, from $756 million to $784 million US 'Dellers'. According to Dell, the notebook business grew by 43%, whilst 22% more products were shipped from neither regions where little elves screw stuff together for Dell.

Dell sent 73% more desktops, displays, notebooks and whatnot to the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) than last year, which alleviated its revenue in those countries by 58% and accounted for nearly 9% of the total revenue. Revenue in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) grew by 15%, notebook shipments by 59% and overall shipments by 30%. Germany showed the strongest growth in EMEA, Dell's revenue went up by 26% in that country, whereas the UK grew by 20%. Dell stated that it was the first quarter in which the company made more revenue outside of the USA than in the country itself.

Revenue in India and China went up by 52% and 30% respectively. Dell managed to get rid of 46% more notebooks in the Asia Pacific region (including Japan), as well as 23% more servers and 25% more desktops. Dell said people won't buy a lot of its products in the US during the summer, however it wants to grow in emerging countries and elsewhere and save money. X