[Hodar]

I wonder .... the motherboards made by most computers for laptops are all Intel reference designs, primarily made by Foxconn and Quanta in China.

I belive Psystar makes a laptop - it shouldn’t be hard to build a COTS laptop that will load and run the MacOS.

Personally, I would like to see the MacOS compete directly against Windows. The same hardware, lower cost per OS, better functinality, performance and with the Boot Camp functionality - there is no reason not to have a dual-booting PC.

[dennisw]

Personally, I would like to see the MacOS compete directly against Windows. The same hardware, lower cost per OS, better functinality, performance and with the Boot Camp functionality - there is no reason not to have a dual-booting PC.

Lets say Apple authorized Dell to sell dual boot computers
After they checked out OSX for a while I'm sure most users would end up using Windows 7 most of the time

[altair]

Personally, I would like to see the MacOS compete directly against Windows. The same hardware, lower cost per OS, better functinality, performance and with the Boot Camp functionality - there is no reason not to have a dual-booting PC.

I disagree. I have no desire or need to dual boot, except if the other OS is Linux.

The US government has decided that Microsoft can strangle any opposition, so I suppose it's not surprising there isn't opposition in any in brick and mortar stores. Apple tying Mac OS X to their own hardware is self defense.