Mac OS X Leopard on a third party laptop ?

i have an HP laptop
intel core 2 duo 2.20
2 GB ram
150 GB hard drive
intel graphics card
can i remove windows xp and install leopard on it ?
Message was edited by: PandaJin

Welcome to Apple Discussions, PandaJin.
This is a sensitive question because it is both unsupported and violation of the license agreement.
There are hacks that allow OS X to install on a pc. However, even if you do install 10.5 on your HP, it will be fraught with problems. Mac OS X is built to run on Mac hardware. You have different specs, different hardware, different drivers. And AFAIK, you will be unable to run updates.
In short, if you do get the job done, you may have some bragging rights but little of anything else of value.
-mj

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