OSx86 (a portmanteau of OS X and x86) is 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 is sometimes known as a Hackintosh, which is a recycled term originally denoting… (More on Osx86)