No other PC laptop is going to run Mac OS X as well, regardless of how compatible the hardware is. That said, some laptops (and netbooks) are easily hackintoshable and you can put together a very ...

Apple's operating system is officially available only for Mac hardware. However, it's possible, if legally questionable, to run Mac OS X Leopard on standard PCs.

The Mac's rebranded operating system, which edges closer to the iPhone experience, arrived this week. The OS X brand is officially defunct, as MacOS takes its place. Probably the single biggest ...

Plug it into a Chromebook, Windows PC or Mac (it doesn’t necessarily have to be the laptop you’re installing Chrome OS Flex on), then visit the Chrome web store: Find the Chromebook Recovery ...

And while PC manufacturers sometimes fix things about Windows that weren’t broken–take the inscrutable Wi-Fi utility that Lenovo bolts onto Windows Vista–Apple wrote OS X in the first place ...

Putting the computer back in Apple Inc. This year’s model, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, is a little different. It comes with a stylistic overhaul, a new and cleaner coat of paint for your Mac.

The Open Computer, an Intel-based machine capable of running OS X, can outperform a Mac mini. But it lagged behind the entry-level iMac as well as a home-built system in our benchmark testing.

You can run Mac OS X on a PC but not vice-versa, although OS X on a PC wouldn’t work as well as on a Mac. There are also differences in hardware in that Macs are only built by Apple, whereas PCs ...