[aft_lizard]

My point is that you can build a PC with the same guts, not necessarily the same proprietary BIOS, ROMS or what have you which really is the difference in hardware between Apple and PC's.

http://www.osx86project.org/

They play around with OSX on x86 pc's with different hardware.

[Swordmaker]

My point is that you can build a PC with the same guts, not necessarily the same proprietary BIOS, ROMS or what have you which really is the difference in hardware between Apple and PC's.

They may have similar parts, but not similar engineering... and I will bet that the Mac will still be cheaper than the sum total of the cost of the equivalent parts. This is what Mossberg is referring to... superior hardware.