instaling windows OS on the MAC mini

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instaling windows OS on the MAC mini

I am not sure where to post this question...
I consider to buy a mac mini, but before i buy it i need to know if it would be possible to install windows on it. Without any apple paralel OS.
The reasons for that are the aplications that can only run on windows.
sorry for the bad english

Mac Mini, Windows XP Pro, will it work?

Posted on Jun 1, 2010 11:46 AM

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Answer 1

a brody

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Jun 1, 2010 12:21 PM in response to yossisir@gmail.com

Welcome to Apple Discussions!

Any Mac Mini designated as "new" since 2006 (with at least 4 USB ports on rear) can have Windows installed on it. Apple's Boot Camp offers its own partition formatting for dual boot into Mac OS X and Windows which you can later wipe out the Mac formatted partition if you so desire. However, before thinking about doing that, you may be surprised to learn most applications which only run in Windows have Mac compatible counterparts*:

http://www.macmaps.com/crossplatform.html

Not to mention, the Mac Mini doesn't have the strongest graphics card for games. If your desire is for that, you may want to research what people have done with Boot Camp here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=687
and discover which Mac meets your needs.

- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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Answer 2

Jun 1, 2010 8:36 PM in response to yossisir@gmail.com

thank you for the reply!
I will not put any games on it, i need it for a robotic system that uses c#, the code is ready and will not be changed...
The program uses other aplications that related to windows, so thats the only OS i can have...
But still i want to be sure, will i be able to install windows alone, no MAC OS?

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Answer 3

a brody

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Jun 2, 2010 6:59 AM in response to yossisir@gmail.com

Yes. There is a Boot Camp installer on the Mac Mini installer's Utilities menu. By the way, C# can be reported for Mac OS X in the future, if you so desire. Using Windows is more risky when it comes to viruses and spyware.

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JezzerP

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Jun 2, 2010 9:11 AM in response to a brody

You could always investigate the cross platform C# development libraries and IDE, MonoDevelop

http://monodevelop.com/

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Answer 5

Jun 2, 2010 9:23 AM in response to yossisir@gmail.com

Thank you it was helpful

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