If Dell or HP had made the same offer, it would have been opposed on anti-trust grounds..which is probably why they didn't even bother..makes a whole lot of sense, eh?
good point. of course, if we had tariffs on chinese imports, we could have done something about what will now be an erosion of the US PC business - the chinese will start dumping them here soon, selling below cost. the WTO will twiddle its thumbs while the US PC companies are decimated.