Why would you want to install Leopard on a PC, when buying a Mac will work much simpler? Mostly because you can swap out the hardware and build a ridiculously fast Mac — faster than any that are out there.
Specifically, take the case of BrazilMAC, a hacker living in the UK who who a how-to guide so that it would run natively on non Cupertino-blessed Intel-based hardware. As he said in a recent interview with InfoWeek:
“You can build your system for a lot less than a real Mac and get the performance of a top-dollar Apple machine. This is fact and a lot of the real Mac users will deny, but it is fact. My machine runs a e4300 Core Duo Processor over-clocked to 3.40 GHZ. Where can you get a 3.4-GHz Mac? It will cost you a fortune. I have 1066-MHz DDR2 memory. Where can you get that on a real Mac???”
Now, even if he’s running on generic PC hardware, he’s still a convert where it counts:
“Why run OS X? Well, when you are just used to Windows, it is like living inside a house and not experimenting the whole world out there. Once you get out of it, it is just amazing. Mac is just that: You just feel like glued to the computer. Everything is just beautiful, the interface, the stability. Once you experiment it, you don’t want to go back to windows. Trust me.”
The analogy was good, executed poorly. It probably would have been better as:
"Why run Windows? When you're just using Windows, it's like living inside a house and not experiencing the whole world out there. Once you get out of it, it is just amazing. Mac is just that: You feel like the whole world is opened up to you. Everything is just beautiful, the interface, the stability. Once you experience it, you don't want to go back to Windows. Trust me."
But that's just my opinion as an anonymous blog commenter.
Apple Macs are PCs.
It's not that simple like get a Leopard DVD-image from Usenet or Pirate-torrent, you'll have to install Tiger on x386 first... I quote from the howto: "After installing Leopard, reboot into Tiger again."
This is what we call in Dutch "make someone happy with a dead sparrow". :-)
So I have a pretty quick AMD64 based PC thats not been turned on more than once a month because my macs are much more fun. Does anyone know where the AMD image can be found so I can turn the last none Apple computer in my house into something worth keeping?
People who make this criticism just don't get the point. Many people choose Macs because they are very reliable and don't want to spend the time it takes to hobble together thier own systems. If making the fastest computer that runs MacOS makes you hard (or wet), then go for it. But other people have other things to do with thier time.
By stringing cheap - however fast - hardware together and shoehorning Mac OS X to work on it you get a noteworthy monster to show off, but, with highest probability, a totally unreliable contraption, prone to crash at the minimal change in system sw.
Mac users, or, at least, the vast majority of them, prefer spending their time working "with" their machines rather than "for" them.