Apple OS X should be legal to run on any compatible hardware, purely because if Microsoft turned around and restricted the use of Windows to computers manufactured only by them and specific partners there would be an uproar.

Once Apple went to Pentium based machines they lost any genuine excuse not to offer the OS to the general market.

I am intending to either buy an iMac or the Dell XPS which is similar, mainly for space saving. I'll just dual boot into Windows as I use Visual Studio on a daily basis and already bought Photoshop etc for Windows.

If OS X was available legally to buy and run on my own hardware I would do it alongside Windows 7. I can't be bothered running it illegally. Not for a moral reason, just too much hassle to be worth it for something no better or worse than Win7 overall.

Eventually this may become like the IE issue in Europe, except this is something that actually matters.

I'd like to see how many people buy Apple products for the OS, and how many buy it for the actual hardware and/or the "street cred" (Street cred that some of them 'think' it gives them)