The laptops were completely Clevo pre dell....now just the base components comes from Clevo on various models.... the cited sager references are all post Dell purchase. Dell , like HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Sony etc..... don't make laptops, never have. They just "rebrand and market them like most everyone else.
http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manufacturers
The vast majority of laptops on the market (94% in 2011) are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China.[2]
Major relationships include:[3]
Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP