[joelhaasnoot]

If this is what you want - Android on your PC, you might as well use Genymotion (https://www.genymotion.com/) - essentially a well packaged version that uses VirtualBox. Free for non-commercial use, $100/year for commercial use. Have new OS versions fast and easy to install Google apps/services on.

[btzll]

Genymotion's free edition has too many limitations. It's not just free for non-commercial usage. Some examples are: multi-touch and accelerometer, which are not supported in the free edition.

Comparison can be found here: https://www.genymotion.com/#!/store

[joelhaasnoot]

Sure, if you develop some sort of special app or specific game, or want to play something specific it won't work. But for 90% of use cases, Genymotion will work better than barebones Android-x86.

[izacus]

Those things won't work with this Android image either.