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...
When it comes to Mac vs Windows, they are not comparable. People don’t normally weigh the two options against each other. I build my own boxes so I would never look at a Mac. I would use Linux instead.
I use Macs on campus and they seem wickedly fast compared to a PC. We would save a lot of money by banning Windows on campus because it costs so much to deal with pwn3d boxen. We are constanty going into the dorms and yanking wires out of PC’s. When studentsmove into the dorms, the first thing they do is pull down the firewall.