I want have both operating systems " Mac OS x" & " Windows" at the same time.

. Get a Mac/Apple and Bootcamp it with Windows
. The other way is a NO-NO situation due to Apple EULA - try not even to discuss it on NBF

cheers ...

As qhn said, Apple does not allow OSX to be licensed & run on any computers but theirs. So you can't (legally) install OSX on a non-Apple system. With that said, the advantage for buying an Apple product is that you can legally and smoothly run both operating systems. The disadvantage is that Apple notebooks only come in limited configurations and they are fairly expensive.

The advantage of buying a different computer and attempting to dual-boot Windows & OSX is that you can determine the hardware you will use and can get a better price for the performance. The disadvantage is that an official copy of OSX won't run on a non-Apple product and in order to get it to work, you have to rely on illegal third-party programs that may not provide all the functionality and are definitely not supported nearly as well as the genuine OSX.

It's possible, but I can tell you right now it isn't what you want to do, it .. really.. isn't what you want to do, not only does it require you to understand how systems to work, but it requires a fair amount of going through a lot of files and changing stuff that you should NEVER change.

I came extremely close to losing all of my photographs and all of my music ... actually I came close to losing everything, I was doing a standard cleanup under windows and was being an idiot and wasn't paying attention to something unusual saying that it could delete 480ish GB of space (on a 160gb hard drive), i let it go through, wanted to visit one more website but closed out of firefox, noticed everything from my start menu was missing, something was fishy, tried to run firefox... error.. firefox isn't there, EVERYTHING on my harddrive that was not running at the time was deleted.

The one fortunate thing at the time was that my hard drive was indeed partitioned, thus it allowed me to install vista after some tooling around on the second partition and save all of my photographs which is what all I cared about at the time.

Even worse for me I did it moments before I was leaving for home.. it was a very bad trip home to say the least.

I can promise you, getting an apple and using bootcamp is the way to go for now, otherwise you risk losing it all.. easily.

it isn't worth paying that ultimate price of losing everything, my life is in this computer, and it was shattered when that happened, thank god for Piriform's Recuva which saved my life (for the most part)

Sorry for the long post, but not only is it technically illegal.. it isn't worth it.

I've seen a few posts that state it's illegal to install Mac OS on a PC. If you read the agreement, it states "Apple Labeled." Corporations are extremely careful on how they word their license agreements and I find it hard to believe Apple mistakenly used this terminology. There is other jargon in there that makes it difficult to determine exactly what the legalities of this really are.

I would say let the lawyers sorting out the legality of the issue. No need for NBF users to be bothered with the discussion/argument. We at NBF will wait for whatever final legal offifical outcome.

In the mean time, installing OS X on non-Apple hardware is a NO-NO here.

cheers ...

i don't believe that you can have 2 operating systems on one computer. why would you want to do this anyway?

You can theoretically have several different operating systems on the same computer. This is mainly done in situations where each operating system can do something the user finds valuable that the other operating system cannot do or when the user is interested in being knowledgeable about the inner workings of different operating systems for their employment or as a hobby.

As Djembe mentioned above.

Me: triple boot OS (XP, Vista and Linux).

Linux is mostly used for development. Vista is the day-to-day OS. And XP, well it has been sitting idling for quite sometimes now that most my apps are running smooth under Vista.

cheers ...