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Guide for installing Vista in Boot Camp



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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As reluctant as we might be to admit it, we have our reasons for tinkering with Windows Vista behind closed TUAW office doors. Parallels...
 

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ortatherox

Still no fix for Mac Pro's with 1 gig of ram. See here

March 15 2007 at 6:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shawn Morel

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.

March 14 2007 at 6:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kjartan

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)

March 14 2007 at 3:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Greg

Ze's internship at the League of Awesomeness is almost over :(

March 14 2007 at 1:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Chartier

#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.

March 14 2007 at 12:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kevin

Does Aero work with this?

March 14 2007 at 12:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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