Neither you or I would ever buy a prada bag or eddie bauer SUV's.
I understand your meaning but charging $200 more for a better processor when the exact same processor costs less than half that additional cost bought elsewhere is nothing short of exploitation of people who don't understand computers. This isn't like a designer handbag vs a walmart handbag.

OSX itself is quite nice and I wouldn't even mind trying the "hackintosh" thing sometime- But I'll most likely never buy an "actual" mac.