I found this Wired.com article quite interesting: "Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?"
It postulates pilot waves which carry particles but have different properties (e.g. wave properties).
Dell probably had already started the hardware production process. They likely had a choice to either do this or waste or the work (and possibly hardware) that they had already put into i (or built).
Seems (to me) like the most obvious reason for this.