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 ...

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.

Working with the Android OS on a desktop computer environment takes personal computing in a new direction. How many will follow it remains to be seen. The release of Android-x86 version 4.4-RC1 ...

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.

The developers at the Android-x86 project have been mulling on the matter and have unveiled the first-ever Android 5.1 Lollipop Release Candidate (RC) build for PC.