As reluctant as we might be to admit it, we have our reasons for
tinkering with Windows Vista behind closed TUAW office doors.
Parallels has pretty decent support for it (3D hardware is still a work in progress), though we've been having to search across the vast interwebs for some help on how to get Micrsoft's latest... 'achievement' to play nice with Apple's Boot Camp. Fortunately, someone we only know as Nja247 has posted
this walkthrough at a Geocities page that guides Mac users through every step in getting a 32-bit version of Windows Vista running on a Mac. The walkthrough delves into nearly every essential step, including stripping the necessary drivers off the CD that Boot Camp creates because Apple's auto-installer for Windows breaks in Vista.
Don't get the wrong idea though:
we still agree with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in
saying no to Vista. Per our duties as card-carrying Mac users and bloggers, however, we still need to tinker with a few things to make sure we're staying on top of what Redmond is up to. Kinda like
Ze Frank says: we're testing Vista, so you don't have to.
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3-14-2007 @ 12:21PM
Ed said...
Does Aero work with this?
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3-14-2007 @ 12:45PM
Dave Chartier said...
#1: Yep, installing Vista on most of the recent Intel Macs (except maybe the Mac mini) will give you the full graphical effects of Vista (as long as it isn't Vista Basic which doesn't include Aero, of course). Now that Macs are running Intel chips, they're even more akin to high-end PC hardware, so just about everything works after going through this or any similar guide.
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3-14-2007 @ 1:10PM
Greg said...
Ze's internship at the League of Awesomeness is almost over :(
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3-14-2007 @ 3:41PM
Kjartan Á. said...
I can confirm that Aero works on a Mac Mini. At least it runs on my brand new 1,66ghz. :)
Has anyone had any luck with running vista from boot camp in parallels?(as I know is possible with XP)
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3-14-2007 @ 6:56PM
Shawn Morel said...
Let's not forget to mention that the latest beta of VMware Fusion works great with Vista and offers tool support.
Fusion still won't display the full Aero glass UI though.
AFAIK even the first Intel mac mini shipped with the Intel GMA graphics ship so all Intel macs should be able to run Aero under boot camp.
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3-15-2007 @ 6:42AM
orta said...
Still no fix for Mac Pro's with 1 gig of ram. See here
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3-15-2007 @ 6:43AM
ortatherox said...
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=40979&hl=Mac+pro+vista+x1900
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