If yes
"would would buy a new PC with OS X installed on it"
They could sell the OS for $120-150 thats pretty much pure profit. Think of the millions of windows converts apple could potentially steal away from MS. Once people learned the new software/OS maybe they would buy a pure mac machine the next time, Apple could still say "OS X runs better on our hardware" marketing would still be the same.
You said -- "why don't you start a poll,"
Send it to me on your new Apple letterhead. I'll surely respond.
Regards,
Star Traveler