Interested in learning what all the hubbub about Android-powered laptops is about, but unwilling to drop hundreds of bucks to sate your curiosity? Give Android a whirl on your PC for free.

There are many ways to experience Android-x86 on your PC. Perhaps the easiest but also most resource-intensive is to download the ISO and run it in a virtual machine like VMWare or VirtualBox.

Android-x86 works as a bootable USB on your computer or in an emulator like VirtualBox. It's less of a ready-made solution than some of the alternatives, but you can peek at the source code, and ...

The team at the Android-x86 project Abba released their latest version of an Android based desktop operating system, offering an open source platform that can run Android 9 Pie on a desktop ...

The newest release is based on Android 8.1 Oreo, and includes plenty of modifications to make Google's OS more functional on x86 PCs.

Fortunately, there are projects like Android-x86 which has just recently reached an important milestone of bringing Android 7.1 Nougat to any computers running on an Intel or AMD x86 processor.

Android developers are all too familiar with not-so-hot emulator performance, so it's a relief that there's now an system image in a native x86 for testing. While you'll still likely want to test ...