Installing mac os x on an existing dual-booted laptop (with windows/linux)

Hey everybody,
I am wondering if any of you have advice for the best way of going about installing a version of the Mac operating system on my Dell laptop, considering that I already have Windows and Linux (SuSE) in a dual-boot environment, and an Intel Pentium 4-M processor (which I think is x86?)...
I've looked at the Mac store and it looks like OS X Tiger is only for PPC processors. Is there a way to get it to run on my processor?
The reason I am doing this is that I really want to test a website I am developing on Mac browsers, like Safari and IE on Mac, but I can't afford to buy a new Mac system (nor do I really want to, since I use this one computer for everything).
Also, would the Mac installer be able to partition my drive for me automatically?
Thanks!
Stephen

Just make your web site standards compliant and we'll be fine.
The only trouble we'd have is if you started coding your sites chock-full of Microsoft ActiveX garbage.
And don't bother coding your web site to function on IE for Mac. Most Mac users are smart enough to not use a dead web browser which hasn't been supported or updated in years. Microsoft ended its life long ago.

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