leopard and vista

[Mussels]

if you're at a tech level of needing help to even google this, you arent at a level to make this work. This wont be supported by apple, and several programs and some hardware are just not going to work. Running mac OS on a PC means YOU need to fix everything and you wont get any help or support.

 

[Cybrnook2002]

is it possible to run leopard on one drive and vista on the other

Yes. Just use your second drive as the second partition. Instead of creating a another partition on the same drive. But as Mussels said. If your asking questions about the partitioning, then your problems will be a bit deeper than that. Its not as easy as throwing in a Windows Install disc and sitting back and clicking next.

 

[Wile E]

The biggest problem with running OS X on a regular PC is gfx drivers. You have to use hacked .kexts to get acceleration to work properly. And not all cards are supported by the community, so if you don't have a supported card, you're forced to modify the drivers yourself. Once you get the gfx card working, all programs should work flawlessly. Even if you don't get your card working, the only apps that won't work are the ones that require full hardware acceleration, and there's actually very few of those, as most will revert to software rendering.

You cannot just take a retail OS X disc and throw it in a PC to install. It won't even boot. Apple hardware has a TPM chip in it and newer Apple hardware uses EFI instead of a BIOS. Older Apple hardware uses Open Firmware. OS X looks for the TPM first thing, and is only coded to work with open firmware and EFI. It doesn't understand a normal PC BIOS at all. You have to use a cracked install disc to get it to work.

Even after getting it on the drive and working, with fully working hardware, your work may not be over. A simple Apple Update can completely break your system. So you'll have to manually download your OS updates and modify them, or wait until somebody releases a modified update with you hardware requirements.

All-in-all, it's not worth it. If you want OS X, buy a Mac. And, with laptops as the exception, all the Macs are worth what you pay for them, especially when you compare them to other OEM's with the same hardware/features/formfactors. It's just a matter of whether or not those specs and features are within your budget.