I’ve recently discovered a neat way of running Android on my PC, thanks to some cool (and very very smart) developers: http://www.android-x86.org/getsourcecode
I discovered the website while I was trying to find a way of running Honeycomb (Android 3.0) , since the emulator is slow as hell even on my quad-core machine.
So, follow the tutorial, make a Live CD Android (I’m using a USB drive) and enjoy! It runs smooooooth!