Apple: Design and software, not hardware, distinguish Macs from Intel-based PCs

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With 1.25 million Macintosh computers shipped in the holiday quarter, the Macintosh resurgence appears real. What distinguishes an Intel-based Mac from an Intel-based PC? Apple's senior director of desktops tells us it's nothing in the hardware, specifically - in fact, hardware isn't even really that important. Intel might be interested to know that.

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[dalethepcman]

We don't take off-the-shelf parts, [and add to them] huge, major components from other companies

So Apple Engineered the Intel V8 motherboard used in mac pro towers? So Apple Engineered the Intel CPU used in all macs? So Apple Engineered the AMD and NVidia video cards used in all macs?

I'm pretty sure those are all huge, major components from other companies, taken off the shelf (or out of the box) and thrown into a mac.