this has been coming on for around two years.. I heard it was something to do with taxes and that PC Laptops was just waiting for the hammer to fall and pick up the pieces..
Funny thing was not more than a few hours after the news broke, PC Laptops announced that they would start selling desktop PC's and would be hiring around 30 to 40 of the former totally awsome employees.
Dell is just lashing out, due to many bad investments (totally awesome guns and ammo, then the motor powered parachute gliders, etc.) and bad publicity, if he did not want this much attention then he should have stayed out of the advertisements, he became to some funny, to others annoying.