Yeah, I currently have a desktop PC and a laptop running OS X, and have installed it on four previous laptops. It's actually not too hard to get things started, but it's the minutia that will kill you. Like, it'll boot, take you to your desktop, but for some reason, your USB won't work and you have no sound. This usually requires some quick hacks to get things working, and in some cases, there is just not a driver for the component you're looking for. This is especially hard on laptops.
First place to go is the InsanelyMac Forums. Search the forums there for the type of machine you're installing on, someone's probably already done it and written it up for you to get all of your components working. I've done two, one for the Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet, and one for the Gateway C-5815 Tablet PC. You'll find that AMD machines are a bit tricker, but there is a huge community behind it, and someone even made a custom software updater to make sure you don't brick your machine.
My desktop is a Pentium D at 3 GHz, with an Intel 945 chipset, a GeForce 7600GS graphic card, onboard ALC audio and Realtek ethernet, with SATA drives and a IDE drive, and a USB keyboard. Everything works pretty much out of the box now, except for the Pentium D which requires a custom kernel. The disk images you get off of various torrent sites will have these custom kernels and drivers already, so you'll be able to check off the stuff you require for your machine.
Let me finish by saying this. The community does not thrive on pirating software, nor should it be about software piracy. If it works for you, go out and buy a copy of OS X. Installing OS X on a PC does violate the EULA, but that's hard to enforce, and a company called Psystar is now dealing with Apple to try to change it. I don't want to be seen as stealing Apple's software, though, so I bought a copy. It gives you some legal wiggle room, and helps keep up the OS updates.
- oZ
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