You've clearly been an Apple fan for a long time. You need to wake up. Apple are ripping you off with average hardware with poor features and very very high prices. For the £1700+ they want for an MBP - I can have a genuine workstation class laptop with a workstation class GPU with a high res screen and twin HDD's. Thin and Shiny doesn't make a good laptop.
I'm about as much of an Apple fan as I am a Microsoft and Sun fan, that is to say that I think they make some good products that work very well for a specific set of tasks.
I understand that for you, twin hard drives, a workstation-class GPU (I presume you mean a Quadro) and a high-res screen are important (or at least worth paying for). For me, they hold absolutely no value. None whatsoever. I simply don't require them in a laptop. What I do need is a reasonably-fast, reliable, portable laptop with an stable, OSS-friendly *nix-based OS that stays the hell out of my way and lets me work. And that's what Apple has thus-far provided me with. That doesn't make me a fanboy -- that makes me someone whose requirements were filled by a product that Apple makes. Thin and shiny doesn't (for me at least) make a good laptop -- something that meets my requirements and does so at a price that I can afford makes for a good laptop. By that standard, Apple makes a good laptop.
I applaud Psystar if, for nothing else, highlighting so very very well just how under-specified and over priced Apple hardware has become. The switch to Intel was just about the best thing they could have done - but it's showing them for what they are. A rip off.
Psystar isn't the miraculous savior of a company that you seem to be pretending they are. They're a couple of brothers with 20+ employees who build generic x86 boxes, add on some software that other people wrote, slap their label on software by the OSX86 project, and sell the boxes to people who want to run the current version of OS X.
And you know what? That's good. It's very good.
There's a niche for that sort of product, and they seem to be pretty damn talented when it comes to filling that niche. Sweet deal.
But it doesn't highlight how overpriced Apple products have become. Well... it does, if your only criteria for buying a computer is the strict component/cost breakdown. For some people, that is the only criteria, and for them, Apple hardware is overpriced. But for many people, that's not the only criteria. Things such as warranty, customer service, support, and the permanence of the company all are taken into account. Apple's got a long history of excellent customer service and support ratings, and is in good financial health. Psystar is a small white-box manufacturer with virtually no track record in the industry that gained their fame for selling another company's OS with their machine. Does that matter to me? Not very much. But it does matter to some folks -- enough that they're willing to pay more money for the peace of mind that they find with the established vendor of their OS.
Basically, this whole argument could be avoided if people accepted one little fact: your requirements for a computer (the requirement's you're willing to pay someone to meet) are not the same as everyone else's.
Some people are willing to pay Apple money because their products meet their requirements and are priced at a price deemed acceptable. Other people are willing to pay Psystar money because their products meet their requirements and are priced at a price deemed acceptable. Neither of these groups are "fanbois". You personally may not understand why the choose to pay their money the company that they do, but just because they find value in something that you don't doesn't mean that they're "brainwashed" or "being ripped off".
