WARNING: HACKINTOSH CAN DESTROY YOUR DATA, YOU MIGHT LOSE IT, 50-50! BACK UP YOUR DATA, THIS IS A WARNING! Are you a super-duper mega geek or a novice computer user who wants to install 'Mac OS X Mavericks' on a PC?
Mavericks can be downloaded directly from Apple here (make sure you leave the file in the default download location) 2. Prepare a USB Flash Drive (Must be 8Gb or larger) Plug the USB Drive in to your Mac and open “Disk Utility” (found under applications / utilities in finder).

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Apple’s latest OS X update was just released yesterday for free. Many of you are probably itching to update to take advantage of all the new features. However, since Mavericks can only be downloaded via the Mac App Store, this means that Apple is only allowing you to do an upgrade to your current system. Many users prefer to format their drives and install new operating systems from scratch. This is a good option for those that would like to start out with a clean slate and leave behind any issues that were present during the last operating system. Thankfully, there is a way to copy Mavericks to a USB stick and boot from it to install the system files over your current setup. This is how you do it:

OS X Mavericks is available in the Mac App Store now, but it's only an upgrade—but if you want to do a clean install, you'll need to manually burn an install.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you backed up all your files (both on your Mac and USB stick). They will be deleted.
Download OS X Mavericks from the Mac App Store – if the installer starts, simply cancel it. We are only interested in the files that were downloaded.
Connect your USB stick to your Mac. You’ll need a USB stick of capacity 8GB or higher.
Open the Disk Utility app. You can find it under Applications -> Utilities.
Select your USB stick on the sidebar. Go to the Erase tab and Format the drive as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” – the name of the drive should be “Untitled”.
Once the formatting is complete, open the Terminal app located in Applications -> Utilities.
Copy and paste the following command into the Terminal. Press Enter.

sudo /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/Untitled –applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app –nointeraction

You will be prompted for a password, enter the administrator password to your Mac (the one you usually use to login). This process will take approximately 20 minutes to complete (you’ll receive a message indicating it is complete).

That should be it. Your USB stick now holds a bootable copy of Mavericks. Simply reboot your Mac and hold down the Option key. When the Mac reboots, you’ll be presented with which drive you want to boot from, simply select the OS X Mavericks Installer.

NOTE: Once you boot from the USB stick, remember that you’ll need to format your internal drive first as the type “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” by using the installer’s Disk Utility.

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This article has now been superseded by our Bootable Yosemite USB Guide

There are many ways that you can create a bootable Mavericks USB Drive but this seems to me the far easiest way to do so. In this article I will assume that you already have a reasonable grasp of the OSX system and cut out the lengthy text:

1. Download Mavericks

Mavericks can be downloaded directly from Apple here (make sure you leave the file in the default download location)

2. Prepare a USB Flash Drive (Must be 8Gb or larger)

Plug the USB Drive in to your Mac and open “Disk Utility” (found under applications / utilities in finder)
Select the USB Drive
Select the Erase tab
Ensure that the format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

IMPORTANT – Leave the name as “Untitled”. If you change this the next step won’t work

3. Create the Bootable Mavericks USB Drive

Open up Terminal (found in applications)

Type this in:

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sudo /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/Untitled –applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app –nointeraction

Wait for the process to complete. Done.

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4. Boot from the Mavericks USB Drive

Restart your computer and hold down “Option”. You can now select the USB Drive you just created.

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This article has now been superseded by our Bootable Yosemite USB Guide