I've heard (from a fairly reliable source) that the project was actually postponed about 5 months or so while Dell worked on lowering it's prices for VT, finally Dell gave it's lowest possible price, which still wasn't good enough for VT, so they did indeed give Dell plenty of time to try and beat Apple.
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Ok... then let's add $19 for a FIVE-BUTTON mouse, now the Mac is leaps and bounds ahead, and still comes in about $500 less. ~killigan
I've heard (from a fairly reliable source) that the project was actually postponed about 5 months or so while Dell worked on lowering it's prices for VT, finally Dell gave it's lowest possible price, which still wasn't good enough for VT, so they did indeed give Dell plenty of time to try and beat Apple.