I have an unused mother board at home, which i am thinking of building a new computer from. i am not too knowledgae able with MAC software and so was going to try it out. my questions are : 1. will it work and does it need specific hard drive or such to work ? 2. where can i get some cheap Mac os from and what version would be most suitable ?

Search for mac EMULATORS. BASILISK is one. See the specs for the emulators you find and then who knows? You may be on the road to the preferred platform (if only riding on the strained back of a camel).

just so you know, mac os is not compatible on intel hardware unless you run the emulator program mentioned in the post above. intel & motorola/RISC is two different things.

There is an environment out there called Rhapsody, which is what much of Mac OS X is based on. There is a port to the Intel platform, however, its pretty much alpha level software. Thats about as close as you'll get to Mac OS on Intel at this time.

hey i have a pc i bulidt a pc motherboard that hold a intel/amd/RSIC belive me i got mac os to run on it i got a RISC cpu from a friend of mine and i took a copy of a 4mb rom took it to school and got it on a chip took it home and put it on the motherboard and poped in a ati rage and a ide harddrive some memory and it worked and if you don't belive me look up athe motherboard i used its a Gigabyte GA-5AX (REV5.X) with ALi Aladdin V AGPset Super Socket 7