Niche PC Ideas

In general, the Windows PC is ultra-commoditized. It is very hard to do anything to earn a higher margin. My ideas for carving out a niche would be:

• Crapware (aka, Trialware)-free (because right now Best Buy is getting some people to pay an extra $75 for this)
  
• Built-in backup (software, but also a mirrored hard drive)
• One or two very modest design and engineering touches--such as the Mac-style magnetic power cord
• The crowning glory would be easy-to-use virtual machines (VMWare), so that you could always roll back to a pristine install