Either I don't get it or Cringely is over the top wrong

posted by  techgeek (12)  12 months ago (doubt.pernick.org)

In the latest I Cringely,
Cringely offers analysis that just doesn't make sense to me. He predicts that Dell
was the reason that Vista isn't shipping this holiday season. While I believe he is
100% correct that it has to do with OEM lead time, he is way off thinking it was Dell.
Dell is the company that doesn't have long inventory chains and assembles the computers
at the last possible minute. Other OEMS like HP have long lead times as they ship
machines assembled and installed from Asia (and it really is a long boat ride).&n