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I call my laptop a Slackentosh because I run slackware and an apple os and still choose to have duck tape over the camera and mic on a lenovo T500> Because of the intel speculative execution garbage, NOT APPLE OR LINUX kernel based software. Take a hike with blaming Apple and Linux for malware you guys the real problems are further up the food chain. HELL I even have tape over the finger print reader for the same reason.

Technically it is as long as you have compatible hardware.

http://www.hackintosh.com/

Yours would even make a much better hackintosh too.

...unless you're one of the people relying on a piece of software that only runs on OS X, i.e. the main target demographic for this machine, in which case a PC isn't a valid substitute at any price.

If only there was a site dedicated to showing you how to run OSX on wintel hardware: http://www.hackintosh.com/
Or maybe well known websites that had an up-to-date guide: http://lifehacker.com/the-always-up-to-date-guide-to-building-a-hackintosh-o-5841604

Did you really not know?

You doubt that Apple would sue the pants off you if you did the same thing in your basement and posted instructions on a website regarding how you did it? Go ahead, try... see what happens.

Okay.

I'm sure you can point me to numerous examples of Apple suing individual hackers/hobbyists running hackintosh configurations.

Apple doesn't litigate against folks who install OS X on non-Apple hardware, unless you're trying to make a business out of it and sell the resulting machines:

http://www.hackintosh.com/

http://www.osx86project.org/

http://lifehacker.com/321913/build-a-hackintosh-mac-for-under-800

Censorship on some of their products.

So, what competitors did Apple destroy?

Also, I might add that apples hardware is pretty much set in stone.

One, that's not destroying competition. Two, Apple is a systems integration vendor, hardware and software are made to work well together.

No upgradability without crippling the OS

Say what? My MacBook Pro came with instructions on how users can upgrade their RAM. That's on a laptop. Lowendmac has the article Know Your Mac's Upgrade Options. Googling upgrading macs returned more than 5 million more results. And while many may be complainers like you complaining Macs are not upgradable I bet many say exactly how Macs can be upgraded. Another one is Upgrading Your Mac's Internal HDD (To An External One), it explains how to replace the internal drive with another then use the old drive as an external one. TFA is dated 5 January 2010, a year before that I replaced the internal drive in my Mac, from the 160 GB it came with to a 320 GB drive, then I bought bought a docking station that accepts internal drives then plugs into a USB socket for use as an external drive. Mac Pros are even easier to upgrade. Now if you mean the all-in-one Macs like the iMac and Mac mini are hard to upgrade try upgrading Dell's XPS One all-in-one. All-in-one PCs are not meant to be easily upgradable.

or paying Apples insanely inflated prices

1999 is calling and wants it's mime back. For years and years Mac prices had been comparable with Windows PC prices. Before I ever got my MBP I made a list of requirements a new computer had to meet, I then comfigured and compared several different laptops with those specs. A couple of laptops were about $100 less and a couple of others were several hundred dollars more than the MBP I eventually bought.

My home built epic-computer can be upgraded whenever I want, in any number of different ways. it is flexible and wonderful, and I don't have to buy a new one just to meet the demands of one newfangled program, until the system is too old to do anything.

Good for you, though I haven't built my own PC I have upgraded and expanded PCs. And the same can be done with a Mac Pro. A new Mac just can't be legally built by anyone other than Apple. People build their owe hackintoches, Hackintoch gives instructions and tutorials on how to do so.

Falcon

@ethana2

http://lifehacker.com/348653/install-os-x-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required

http://www.hackintosh.com/

http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook

Yeah, and if I could buy snow leopard for my PC, I might actually consider it.

If you look around you might find a few ways to do that...