Well, yeah.

It’s been hacked before.  And it still can be.  But it’s getting even easier.

Keep in mind, this is still quasi-legal.  It breaks the terms and conditions of Mac OS X for one.  And for two, if you’re downloading a cracked disk image of Mac OS X in order to do so, you’re pirating software.  Let me make that very clear.  You.  Are.  Pirating.  Software.

Which I wholeheartedly don’t condone.

Now, that said, from a technical standpoint, actually, it’s almost a no-brainer.

Apple is using PC hardware these days.  Mac OS X runs on PC hardware.  The only difference between your Mac box and your PC box then is the firmware, which OS X is intentionally designed to find the Apple Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) in order to run, while PCs just have good ol’ BIOS. That would pretty much be the one missing link to installing Mac OS X on a PC.  A limitation which projects like the Kalyway DVD have removed.

Again, I do not condone using this software.

But I have to say, it’s technically interesting.

The only other hurdle is that you still have to wory about drivers.  Apple is notorious for keeping their Macs closed systems.  They do not support the wide range of hardware like PCs do.  So if you want to do this, you pretty much have to copy Apple’s choices in hardware if you want absolute certainty that you’re going to have the Mac OS X drivers your hardware needs.

There is, of course, more information at the OSx86 Wiki.

But as I do not condone piracy or related activities, I am intentionally leaving out any direct links in this entry.

From a technical standpoint it is a highly interesting field of research.  And we can only hope that one day Apple has the tenacity to release a Mac OS for the PC-using public.  But until then, this is all questionably legal at best, and illegal at worst.  I do not condone it.  But it is being done, and it is interesting.

But I still say that the best way to do this is the legal way:  Buy a Mac.  Install Linux, Windows, or whatever you like.  Apple even helps you with Boot Camp.