How do i install mac OS X onto my windows pc

i want to install mac OS X onto my windows pc because i would like the app store and all the cool mac features. If you have any info please comment. Thankyou.

Susan Howard wrote:
the staff volunteered that I could purchase one of their units and install OSX on it.
It's possible, but the staff was doing so against company rules in a attempt to make a hardware sale.
If you fell for it, you would had to either pay the employee to do it or directed to a website and illegal copies of OS X to do so.
Then it would be Snow Leopard most likely and not Mountain Lion, reinstalling it would be a pain and likely AppStore software wouldn't work.
There is a computer geek community that does take a lot of pains to install OS X onto generic PC's, but it's a hassle for normal computer user folks.
Some geeks like to push OS X on generic PC's in a rebellious "we can do anything" sort of thing, but it's counter productive to most users needs to have the machine "just work" as expected without getting intensely complicated.
There are a few Linux distros that have the OS X look and even do a lot more fancy things with rotating cubes of screens etc., but the problem is the lack of software.
There is OS X and it has a decent amount of software, but Windows by far has the most and it's OS versions last a decade or more, not like OS X versions which only last a year and Linux versions that last anywhere from 6 months to 5 years.
So Windows "won" by being the farmer and Apple wins by being the pioneer.
If you don't like a lot of change, then Apple isn't for you.

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