I don't think I have the guts or ability to build my own laptop. I admit I splurged and got the Macbook Air. What a great machine. Plus, I do lots of lecturing and am repeatedly surrounded afterwards by cute medical students ogling my laptop (and me?). And when I fly by cute flight attendants. That never happened when I had a Dell!
Oh I’m not saying the Mac isn’t a good machine, it really is. But for me, at least, I can’t justify the premium over a PC, plus I’m into PC gaming for which there is obviously a much larger market.
To each his/her own!
To be honest though, if Apple would ever sell OS X as a standalone OS that wasn’t tied to the machine I’d buy it, I believe most would.
Truth be told, MS wouldn’t be what they are now if Apple had only did that 20 years ago...