How to Install Android on a Laptop or Notebook ??

Today we talk about how to install android on a laptop or netbook . This topic will be interesting to all fans of the lightweight operating system from Google, which was designed specifically for small devices. So I was interested in the question: "Can I use the free android on my outdated laptop, with the same success as in the smartphone?". It turns out that this is possible!  , another free product from Google, the truth of the article describes the installation environment Virtual Box. As already stated earlier, in the future, Android and Chrome OS, Google may combine into a single operating system, but so far it only plans.

I do not need a long story about the popularity of Android smartphones and tablets in the mobile market. Competition with the operating system iOS, preloaded on mobile devices iPhone and iPad famous corporation Apple. Such information is presently considered to be banal, everyone knows about it! Well, especially for those who are not aware, such cite some statistics :-) Kantar company released a report which describes the behavior of the market of the mobile industry in the various countries of the world. According to the latest statistics (2014) Distribution of operating systems in the world, Android leads in all countries, albeit with a different percentage. Leadership android in this report is not even discussed. But until 2013 it was slightly different statistics:

PLATFORM	2007	2008	2009	2011	2012	2013
Nokia (Symbian OS)	62.3%	52.4%	47.2%	20.9%	2.4%	-
BlackBerry (BlackBerry OS)	10.9%	16.5%	20.8%	14.9%	5.3%	2%
Apple (iOS)	5.2%	9.6%	15.1%	15.7%	13.9%	14%
Microsoft (windows mob, phone)	11.9%	13.9%	8.8%	5.5%	2.4%	4%
Google (Android)	-	0.5%	4.7%	39.5%	72.4%	80%
Samsung (Bada)	-	-	0.1%	19%	Thirty%	-
Other (Linux, Palm OS)	9.6%	7.2%	3.4%	3.5%	0.97%	0.3%

Install Android on a Laptop or Notebook 

The main feature of android is that it is free and is classified as open programming software, which means that the operating system can freely download and install on any compatible device. It is also completely legal you can download and install on your device, any modification of OSes. And the most interesting, we did not have to buy a smartphone to become familiar with Android, the system can be installed even on a netbook or laptop.

Instructions for installing android on a laptop or netbook

To set the image normally requires Android Live CD or Live USB, which can be written to a disk or flash drive. Further, it will imply the creation of Live CD. With such a "live" disk you can download and try out the system without having to install, in this case your laptop or netbook. On the same drive, you can make and install the system.

Go to the site Android-x86 Project . This is one of the assemblies android ported to any computer with a processor architecture x86.
On the site we need to download a file ISO - image of the installation disk with the latest version of the system on board.

Burn the downloaded ISO image to disk using Ultra ISO or any other recording images to disk.
The recorded discs were placed in the CD / DVD drive laptop, and in the case of the netbook to an external drive, set parameters in the SETUP / BIOS to boot it with our drive and run the system.

In the process of starting the system, we will see a boot menu with several options, the first point - it android run on a computer without installation, and the last - is directly install the operating system on the hard disk of a laptop or netbook.

How to boot Android Live USB?

• We must recognize that the era of CD / DVD drives took much more convenient to use memory stick for installing a new system, however, I would recommend a slightly different way to create a bootable USB drive.
• Download android-x86-4.3-20130725.iso 
• Download and install Linux Live USB Creator (Lili) 
• In the program first select a pre-formatted in FAT32 USB flash drive.
• Then select the downloaded boot image, or just the ISO file.
• The third point is skipped.
• We reserve the checkbox "Allow a Linux Live USB in Windows» if you do not want Lili Download and install the stick Virtual Box.
• In the fifth paragraph click on the zip and wait for the program to create a bootable USB.
• The next steps are making similar paragraphs 4-5 of the previous instruction.

But remember, no one is immune from the lack of full support for the equipment is your model laptop or netbook. For example, the system may not work properly with your device is integrated into the Wi-Fi adapter. Some problems can be fixed a patch installation, but if your configuration is uncommon and is not popular with the masses, then search the Internet solution will be much more difficult.

That's all, I hope you will be useful to my instructions! Subscribe , add in social networks, I will be glad to talk in the comments!