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Trying to install OS X on a Windows box.. having problems. x.x

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adina-allie:
Allright, newbie post. Nice to meet all of you. *waves*
After reading through the site, I went out and bought a copy of OS X (..as well as the book "Mac OS X for Dummies".. Feel free to laugh. Loudly). I read through the book(lette?) that came with OS X and it sounded pretty easy to install. So, I wiped my computer (..the best I knew how, which was removing the company provided repair cd about halfway through its run); and attempted to install OSX with no luck. I booted to the c:/ prompt and changed directories and tried typing -every- run command I could think of ("startup", "run" so on and so forth). Making a long story short, I've tried 2 times to install OS X on my computer (a Emachines T4170 with 1.60 GHz 256MB 56k modem and a 60 GB hard drive, currently running Windows XP Home edition) with no success. I'd like to be able to just toss the computer and purchase an iBook (considering a family member is planning to buy a Mac around April first or so) but due to financial situations, that dosen't look feasable.
Anyway, sorry for making this hellishly long, does anyone here know what I did incorrectly and/or how to fix it? I'd really like to install OS X.
Thanks for your help and patronage.
M

xyle_one:
dude? wait a minute.. did you just try to install osX on a x86 pc??  :confused:

adina-allie:
I don't know if this thing's a x86 or not. -_- If you want, I can post the details of it.
...Lemme guess, Mac OS X won't run on a x86 machine?
-M

slave:
That's right.  Apple goes out of their way to make sure OS X only runs on Macs.  I suggest you use Linux instead.

adina-allie:
Allright, thanks for the information. Now to go look into getting a copy of Linux. (Whee!)
-M

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