Right. "Virtualized hardware", as in, you know, software. In other words, QEMU is software that runs on actual nonvirtualized hardware, in this laptop's example produced by Apple.
If you think differently, I invite you to virtualize a sailboat and than sail with it out to sea.
I suspect that somewhere along the way, the difference between virtaulized sailboats and actual sailboats will become more readily apparent... :)