ICS to run on PC

While you can run Android ICS(Android-x86) on a PC, either virtually or on the bare metal, as they say. While I did get it to work, but I have to say it is alpha, networking doesn't work for a start, so no internet.

They only do it pre-built for specific popular brands, like Asus and Lenovo, and presumably PCs that the devs are using, because each build has to be unique for certain hardware.

 

Can you not demonstrate with an actual Android device with actual Android software? If you need a large screen or something, look for one with HDMI out.

There's an Android Emulator included with the Android SDK. But I think this mainly for developing and testing apps.
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/emulator.html

 

Try Bluestacks Run Mobile Apps on Windows PC or Mac with BlueStacks | Android App Player
Runs Android in it's own VM on Windows. Runs very nicely on any PC from the last for years or so.

 

Download - Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86
Emulators that have previously mentioned have the overhead involved with Windows and binary translation.

Android X86 will run natively on most modern systems.
A good number of apps are said to work just fine with android x86.


MHL hooked up to a real android device would be better.