putting windows on mac laptops

[mataemon_araki]

hello i just inharited a mac laptop from a fried of mine that passed away but i have no clue how to use one and have no use for a mac nothin against them or anything but i need a laptop if there any way i can put windows on it can i just like wipe the hard drive and load windows on it? and he worked at a school so they had to have him put restrictions on it and stuff and id like to restart it and take it all off so how would i do that can any one help me with that even if it lets me i dont know how to do it. and sorry for all the bad grammer and spelling

 

[Qiranworms]

What laptop is this?

Chances are it's PowerPC-based, so no, you couldn't do that. If by chance it's a very new machine based on the Core Duo, you can.

Do you have the operating system install CD? If you don't, you'll need one for a clean install. In the meantime, you could format the drive and install Linux.


Supply the details and than we can give you more specific instructions.

 

[Grayfox]

As Qiranworms said If its power pc based (ex G3, G4) then you have to run mac os.

From the sounds of it you probably have a power pc based mac. (only the mac book and macbook pro are intel based if its called powerbook or ibook it wont run windows.)