Installing Mac OS X Leopard on non-Apple hardware

Is it legal?
I'd like to play a little with Mac OS X for the first time and don't want to buy expensive Apple Macbook. I could buy legal Mac OS X for my laptop and need to know is it possible to be ok with that?

I had your doubts until April 2007. Than I changed. I will not go back to windows at any price. -believe me. I am 61 near 62. Started to use PC with Dos - Turbo Basic and Assembler. I installed several Windows verisions over Dos from Win 2.0 to Win4 Workgroups , 95 98 ... XP. XP was not bad after you got all the drivers and it is still on my 2 Macs into Parallel but I will never NEVER let windows surf the internet.
Apple software is planned to work with its hardware. Strange mix can be less expensive but I am sure you will not get the full improvement. I will not here explain all the advantage of Apple against Windows, you will find or have already found the explanation on magazines. I am not member of Apple and I am not 100% happy with Apple: if you go to see my posts about battery you will see I have also point to complain but I wish to be honest. The only thing I do notnlike from Apple is the suite iWork, I prefer to remain with MS Office, but that is my opinion.
Come on board with us, you will like it as we do. And about the price.. yes Apple is expensive expecially if you compare it with low end PC but you will understand why...
Message was edited by: WALTER-MILANO-ITALY

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