I've been told that Macs are really PC's now that they have Intel chips. Does this mean that Mac OS X can be installed on a PC?
Christopher King
The original 1984 Mac had little in common with the standard PCs of the day, but Apple has now adopted most PC industry standards apart from the antiquated BIOS chip, the keyboard, and Windows' NTFS file system. This has made it far easier to run Mac OS X on a PC than it used to be, and the OSx86 project is dedicated to making it easier. Searching for OSx86 and/or hackintosh will give you a good idea what's involved. It's not something I recommend for serious use, though it's understandable when people want hardware that's outside Apple's range of offerings. The most common recent example has been hackintoshing cheap netbooks.
