OT: I just bought a Core 2 Duo Apple Mac Mini Computer.

The fact is, Vist Release Candidate 1 installs just fine on an Intel
Mac. I installed it last night with little trouble.

It is no longer necessary to delete the Apple EFI partition. However,
it is not possible to install it using Boot Camp Assistant normally.

MAKE SURE BCA has been upgraded to 1.1.

Create the Windows driver disk as directed by BCA.
Use BCA to resize your Mac partition as you normally would, allowing a
minimum of 20GB for the Windows Partition.

One must insert the Vista RC1 disk in the DVD drive when BCA tellls
you to insert an XP disk.

At this point, BCA will give an error and tell you to insert a Windows
XP w/SPs disk. Simply close down BCA and restart your Mac, and choose
the Windows volume when rebooting (after holding down "C" or the Apple
Remote Menu button at first sign of the Apple Boot screen.)

The Vista installer will begin. It is not necessary to delete the EFI
(the 200MB partition) to finish installation, as it used to be.


Well, if the shoe fits, wear it, no matter how much "experience"s you
have.

If you had been able to humble yourself, and read my instruction, you
would also be able to install Vista with little trouble.

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Donald McDaniel
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Donald, what are the performances like?

Any losses?

 

RC1 runs much smoother (and faster) than Beta 2 did. However, it
still has a few bugs. In addition, the installer has lost about 1GB.
The RC1 ISO was only 2.8gb

I noticed no loss in performance while running Vista RC1. In fact,
the Vista performance tool showed my Intel iMac with an overall score
of 3 while running Vista Beta 2. Under Vista RC1, the overall score
was 4, with several of the factors running over 5. I was easily able
to run Vista Ultimate on my Intel iMac 17" (1.83ghz Dual-Core
processor), w/2gb memory). It's possible that part of the improvement
in speed was due to my replacing the 160GB SATA-1 HD with a 300GB
SATA-2 HD.)

There were still a few crashes (though not BSODS, just minor software
crashes).

In addition, there is no Apple driver for either the iSight camera or
the Apple Keyboard USB keyboard keys such as <Eject> (while the basic
keys work ok) under Vista RC1, while both drivers are installed for
XP.

In addition, the Windows drivers disk which BootCamp Assistant creates
is only partially installable under Vista RC2. The installer quit
with an error while installing the ATI driver, so you will have to
download the ATI Mobility X1600 Vista RC1 driver from ATI's website
and install it (if your machine is an Intel iMac or an Intel MacBook,
MacMini, or MacBook Pro) . The same thing happened under Vista Beta
2. The Sigmatel Sound driver and software did get installed, and
Apple Bluetooth got installed. Nothing else was installed, however.

By the way, XP (or Vista RC1) running on an Intel iMac is just as
fast, or faster, then XP running on an equally-configured Wintel
machine.

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Please reply to the original thread
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BS, Apple does not sell Core 2 Duo Mac Mini's.