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.

A release candidate for Android-x86 6.0 is now available for download, and it’s designed to run on most computer with 32-bit x86 or 64-bit x86_64 processors.

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 ...

So if you're looking for an open source option to install Android on your x86 or x64 computer, look no further than the latest Android-x86 release, now based on Android 8.1 Oreo.