A Hackintosh PC, as the name would suggest, is a vanilla PC (built by you or a retailer other than Apple) running a hacked (or patched) version of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. OS X is spe cifically designed to run on Apple’s hardware line; a Hackintosh is simply non-Apple hardware using the operating system. Although Apple opposes the practice of hijacking their OS for use on off-brand PCs, many technol ogy-oriented people who don’t want to buy the hardware from Apple choose to spend a lot of time and effort in creating a Hackintosh. There are many possible reasons: .
