Macs are very expensive and if you want a taste of Mac OSX you can install it on your PC, but by doing so you break all kinds of laws and agreements. However there is a  free similar Alternative that will not get arrested, fined or sued but will give a good Mac style alternative. I am talking about a modded Puppy Linux called MacPup. The software has a realistic Mac dock with the enlarging icons and a Mac theme. A higher quality dock has come out so when you add the Leopard desktop background no one will know the difference (unless they look closely). MacPup might not be able to give you a fully blown Mac experience but it does give a good usable basic one that can carry out basic and some more advanced tasks. There is also is a lot of room for improvement (particularly for networking) but MacPup has some unique advantages that Apple could only dream of. First of all it is very tiny and can run on your computers RAM (it is only  around 150mb not like the gigabytes needed for OSX. Because of it’s size it can be run off of a USB drive which makes it useful as a portable operating system. Mac has some very powerful creative software available for it such as Photoshop and Final Cut Studio however equally as good free Linux alternatives are available.

I have tried out a Live-CD version of MacPup and it is very quick and requires a small amount of computer knowledge. A very good installation guide is available at: http://www.pcmech.com/article/puppy-linux-on-usb-stick-how-to/ and you can download MacPup at www.macpup.org

I really like MacPup and it does make a good free Linux based Mac Alternative. I would give it a Tech Ticker rating of 7.5/10