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The following is slightly off topic but still relevant to this HP discussion.
If Apple were to license macOS to any PC manufacturer, HP would be the best choice to sell the PCs and laptops they make with macOS preinstalled. Whether they will ever be allowed to do that remains to be seen. The blunt way Mike Dell disrespected the company back in 1997, it's pretty much a given that they will never partner with Dell in this respect.
That's a good point. I first noticed the Mac-comparability of HP laptops when I was looking for Hackintosh MacBook Air. Your thread shows that it is even easier to do the same on the HP desktops.
With the iPhone being Apple's cash cow it won't happen any time soon. It could bring many more into the Apple ecosystem, using Apple services and buying the higher priced software sold only in the Mac App Store. HP customers could then run Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro on HP desktops and laptops, but because Apple is now the 800 pound gorilla in the room, instead of Microsoft, why bother ?
Look at the two big arenas: iPhone vs. Android and Mac vs. PC. Apple competes with proprietary hardware, and its opponents with open software. If that really happens, it will be so un-Apple-like behavior.