the PC's they were selling were not that good for the money, spec wise anway.

I thought it was more credible that it was someone like Dell or HP stumping up the cash. If, as appears to have happened, Psystar got squashed they haven't lost much. If it won then they would be free to sell their own PC's with OS X on them.

Ah you've got to love the conspiracy theories don't you.

So where's the bit that says Apple are behind Psystar then?
All I see is a small company trying to appear bigger than they clearly are.
For a review of Psystar's offerings, try this.
It's simply not true that nobody has received an item from the company - there were certainly reviews up online of customers, even videos of the machine booting OS X.
What is probably true is that they've wisely decided not to actively take any more orders until this case is over - the staff on the company probably number no more than 4 people with a bit of tech savvy.
Who's bank rolling them is the much more interesting question - and I've not seen anything to support the Apple, Dell, Compaq theories other than convenience. They could also, of course, simply be a lottery winner or someone with a large trust fund who's rubbish at cash management.

So software wasn't the only thing Psystar took from Apple then.

Apple don't use loud fans, for a start, they design their machines to be nearly silent, not sound like jet aircraft taking off!

To the actual motherboards and chips, they are limited to selling what Apple support, unless they invest money in writing their own device drivers...

Have you ever been near a Mac Pro? They are far from "near-silent" in my book.

Err.. mine is.