OSx86 (a portmanteau of OS X and x86)'s a collaborative "hacking" project to run the Mac OS X computer operating system on non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture processors. The effort started soon after the June 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference announcement that Apple would be transferring their personal computers from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors. A computer built to run this type of Mac OS X's also known as a Hackintosh, which's a portmanteau of the word "hack" and the n… (More on Osx86)