Install Intel on Mac panther PC?

I have a mac ox 10.3.9 panther computer and i want to install Intel in the system itself so i can upgrade it to snow leopard, how would i go about doing that? and roughly how much would it cost?

Well atleast try and help me understand why not... Cuse Intel aint on my mac but all of a sudden its on the next mac with the new running system, so everything inside the mac should be the same just newer with intel, which is what i was expecting, help me understand? maybe?

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