I wouldn't call a PA2Xpro a clone PC, Dennis, which is, I think, the point he was making.

PA2Xpro is beige, and has veneer, but is based on custom embedded chips, not a generic PC...

Mind you, Seamaster, before you start knocking the Wersi for being an overpriced PC, you have to show that you can easily cobble together the same combination of VSTi capabilities, sound generation, and especially easy integrated control over the whole thing. It's that last one that's the hard part. Making all this stuff fairly transparent to non-PC 'geeks' is a formidable task. I only wish there WERE some way to do this with a beige box with as little effort as Wersi have achieved with OAS. Not that that's ANY excuse for the obscene markup that commands, but it IS a consideration, IMO...