HIGHLIGHTS Here's a guide on how to add native Intel x86 support for your Android apps. Adding native support helps to drastically improve the performance of Android apps, when running on Intel ...

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.

The project is called Android-x86 and it consists of a team that tries to provide a solution for Android on Eee PC’s and x86 platforms. The team managed to work up to Android 2.3 Gingerbread ...

Android-x86 already provides a version of Android that you can write on a USB (or something as archaic as a CD/DVD) and install on any old x86/x64 computer, provided you know how to do those things.

4. Now reboot your computer with the USB drive, select “ Live CD ” which runs Android-x86 without installation. 5. Soon you will see the Android desktop on your netbook or computer!

Similarly, if you have an x86 Windows 8 tablet, you could always install previously mentioned BlueStacks and emulate Android without even leaving Windows, but that's definitely a performance hit ...