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They won't be able to break the check, unless they change the processor. With Intel putting their LaGrande technology into the Pentium-D and later series of chips that Apple will be using, it will be incredibly difficult for them to break it... since the OS itself "authenticates" to the processor... in silicon.
Unless someone can binary-patch the OS to ignore that check or somehow run an opcode to "fake" the proper handshake, good luck. Its very easy to stop someone from doing this with integrity checking of the binaries used for the authentication from several other vectors.
If some can actually make a hardware/chipset workaround that fakes the authentication (i.e. by soldering more components to the system boards), I applaud them, but it still won't matter, since you won't be able to run Windows on the final Apple hardware and Apple OSX/i probably won't run on a clone... not if there isn't a huge number of people writing drivers for both platforms for the foreign hardware they're going to find at install time.
After all, what is the point? Running XP on Apple hardware with sub-optimal drivers or running OSX with binary patches on "foreign" hardware that it wasn't optimized to run on? I don't see the point...
But there's a good chance Linux will run on that hardware, of course. <grin>
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