Re: virtual mac on a windows machine?
Concur with Chris. Trying to get OS X running on a Windows box (that is not itself a Mac) is a nuisance. Just get the Mac. You can use USB to do an install of Windows with an NVDA-enabled preinstallation environment if you need BootCamp; that's not really an issue, and anyway is common to Windows as a whole and is not Apple's problem. Or you can use VMWare's "Easy install" method to get Windows installed in a VM. Good luck.
As to why OS X in a VM will not permit the use of certain features: that is because the Mac is essentially a uniquely serialised hardware dongle, that a VM cannot emulate. Using OS X apps and services in a VM is pretty nonsensical anyway (I only use it for OS X Server, myself) but it is made pretty much impossible by the SMC IIUC. I can't even use the Mac App Store to get the server.
As to the hardware: Apple are the best OEM, full stop. Because of their supply chain and the fact that they simply don't sell crap, A
pple computers are the best Macs and the best Windows boxes you can buy. Naturally, if you want to undercut Apple at whatever cost, you can; just buy less reliable hardware, or build your own box. Building your own box of course means that you need to know how, but it does make more sense in certain cases where raw horsepower is needed. This advantage tapers off fairly steeply as you move into the higher end, because the major OEMs can and will sell you workstation- and server- class hardware that can't be built for the same price. Still, Apple does not yet make a middle-range tower, so if that is your fancy, you will have to stay with Windows. But for SFF, AIO and notebooks--oh yes, Apple it is.
Apple is a hardware company. Microsoft is a software company. As long as Apple hardware provides value, it will always have a market, no matter the volume of Microsoft sales . And notice that Microsoft is no longer selling an operating system. No, I don't like Apple's licensing antics either, but I accept that OS X is apple's bundled software solution, not a standalone product. I'd love it if this changed, although to be honest I don't think that's likely. What really needs to happen to change the field is for Linux to actually stand a snowball's chance in hell of actually appealing to the masses; then generic hardware could indeed be a genuine substitute for Apple's closed hardware-software combination. Until then, the margin by which MS are in any sense the leader is the margin by which they have raced to the bottom and eliminated any meaningful competition in the market. In the regard of crushing competition, both are as bad as each other, but only Microsoft's strategy attracted mindshare--until recently, of course, when Google took over from them. Ugh! It's all very horrible.
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