I can think of very few reasons to jump through the loops to do this but some folks have.  Ever since Apple came out with the x86 (Intel) builds of OSX Tiger, the hacking community went to work in order to get it running on Intel and AMD processors.  Now things have gone a bit further with unofficial builds of OSX Leopard running on non-Apple hardware.

A few have been hoping, down on their knees praying to Steve Jobs that Apple would release OSX for non-Apple computers, it is unlikely this will ever happen so the hacking community went at it yet again.

As you may know, OSX Leopard has not officially been released yet and as ArsTechnica points out, running any Apple operating system on a non-Apple computer is in grave violation of the EULA (End User License Agreement) terms and running an unofficial build is an even worse violation.

 A good deal of command line work, installing third party “Patches” and going through Linux are all part of getting Leopard to run on any PC.  In all there are 46 steps which are not described in great detail.  It would not be a wise decision to attempt this on your own as some of these steps could easily break a perfectly functioning operating system, not to mention that the hacks are several levels of illegal.  Stay away.

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