Installing Mac OS X on a Windows XP Pro Machine

Can you install Mac OS X (any version) on a windows based PC, espically an HP Pavilion, with a Turion64 X2 processor, 128MB nVidia graphics card, and 2GB RAM???

Hi yankeefan1122;
Besides not be legal, it will also be quite unreliable installing Mac OS X (any version) on non-Apple hardware.
Allan

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