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Question: Mac and Windows 7? Has anyone tried dual booting Windows 7 on a Mac Mini?
Document: The Mac mini is powerful and very quiet. No noise of fans running like I have on the Windows 7 desktop which are very noisy.I did upgrade the memory to 8GBs. It's cheap. I used Crucial memory and it works perfectly. I bought the Crucial memory for the Mini Macs right here at Amazon. The extra memory allows me to run Fusion from VMware. Fusion makes it easy to run Windows on the Mac if and when I may need Windows.
Apple phone Tech Support cannot alter firmware.Depending upon when it was put together, this same model sometimes shipped with Snow Leopard v10.6 or with Lion v10.7.In some cases the firmware will allow a unit shipped with Lion to also have an instance of Snow Leopard. This is called "double booting. "An example:  lets say someone required support for a PowerPC program like Rosetta Stone v2.
I installed iWorks on both machines, but wouldn't have had to since all my Appleworks documents work just fine under Rosetta.This review might not be all that helpful since I'm a longtime Macintosh fan. I'm not a geek though, and that's why the Mac appeals to me. The computer never gets in the way of the work I am doing. It just runs, as opposed to my cheap Toshiba laptop (an emergency purchase) running Windows 7 which seems to develop a new quirk every other day.
The mac mini is built with quality in mind. When running on OSX, it seldom ever generates any heat. Also, this thing is a work horse - Ive done Win XP on dual boot AND on parallels 5.0. In both situations, Win XP loaded faster and worked better then with my $2,000 gaming desktop. I've sworn off of Windows machines, good riddance.As for the operating system, it is flawless.
I got this Macmini and it's really great. Has a lot of great things and some thing you should know...GREAT- Software. You're really paying for Apples OS and the programs that come with it. All the programs are great!-Software part 2. There are so many add on software bits that you can download that are great. Not as much as PC but still great.- Simple. It's different than a PC but close to Windows 7- Quiet.
No problems booting up from this, however, it did take two minutes to boot from the external FW800 Mac Mini port. Don't know if it should've been faster.No complaints so far.
I ordered this product for a client...When it arrived, I attached an AOC 19" monitor with a DVI socket to the HDMI to DVI converter that Apple included in the box. To my astonishment, the monitor started to flicker when I turned on the Mac Mini..I tried it with several monitors and the same thing happened. Eventually, in frustration, I took the Mac Mini and the monitor to F!
I would seriously suggest though to anyone wanting to do heavy video editing that you install 8gb of ram. I would even say that you could use this machine as video student, if you have some patience. Think about it, people who were doing video editing professionally maybe 5 years ago were working on portable macbook systems that were not far off from the mac mini.
You would want to slap in 4 or even 8gb of ram. I plan to put in 8 as I have a hobby of working with AfterEffects, and Premiere.If anyone is curious, I have Adobe Master Collection installed on my mac mini, Have not noticed one bit of slow down with all those behemoth programs on the system. Also, if anyone is curious, I have not played around with premiere really yet on it, and have only spent about 10 minutes with after effects.
The hardware profile for this older mac mini is still a good solid build that will run pretty much everything Apple has to offer and anything you would want to run in bootcamp as well. With the price down around what you would pay for a decent net top box, you really should consider this as an alternative to that. Makes an excellent HTPC, home office computer, or homework box. Mine has been running 24/7 since September 2010 without a hitch or glitch.
Answer: Dual boot with Win 7 works great!  My PC is from HP - i7 2.66 with 8GB of RAM.  The Mini 2.4 with 4GB of RAM boots just as fast as the HP.  (Kinda shocked)...