Apr 11, 2013 - If you plan to install Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), or any previous. Once your clean, new system is up and running and fully updated, work.
We have a Hackintosh guide at MUO, so you should check that out (though it may be a bit outdated now): There's also this article: I would warn you that installing OS X on a Windows PC will be less than ideal in terms of performance, issues encountered and overall experience. The point of OS X is to marry the hardware and software seamlessly, and Apple goes out of its way to make things difficult for non-Mac machines. There's always the x64 (i.e. Windows-compatible) Mac Minis and iMacs in case you simply can't get it working, and if you buy now you'll get a free copy of OS X Mavericks when its released, which provides huge leaps and bounds over Snow Leopard.
I bought an iMac 27 at the start of the year and didn't get on so went with OS X despite my best efforts. I eventually ended up dual booting Windows 7 and it has remained that way since. I have decided to try OS X again as I have more time on my hands and so I want to totally wipe the disk and put on a clean install. However, I did try doing this earlier in the year using the CTRL-R recovery partition. It seemed to work OK at the time, except that when I booted back into my 'new install' of OS X, it seemed to have remembered various aspects of the previous install (I know it's not much help but I can't recall exactly what!).
Is the CTRL-R option really a totally clean format and reinstall or just a 'refresh' of key files?