This has to be one of the silliest arguments I have seen in a while. Since Apple has gone Intel, the new Macs are nothing more than private label PC's running MacOS. It's clearly a "component" machine, since Apple does not make it's own cpu's/gpu's etc etc. It doesn't fabricate the chips in the iPod either. This entire argument is simply whether or not big software companies should private label the hardware they run on or not.
Now you want to seriously argue that question, compare the iPod and the X-Box.
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This has to be one of the silliest arguments I have seen in a while. Since Apple has gone Intel, the new Macs are nothing more than private label PC's running MacOS. It's clearly a "component" machine, since Apple does not make it's own cpu's/gpu's etc etc. It doesn't fabricate the chips in the iPod either. This entire argument is simply whether or not big software companies should private label the hardware they run on or not. Now you want to seriously argue that question, compare the iPod and the X-Box.