Aqua-Soft Forumsis there any boot camp like thing for mac mini with the g4 processor not hte intel duo core one so that i can run my old windows xp on mac mini?
thanks to all buddies in advance
Boot Camp-like software for Mac Mini
It doesn't look like there will be. I think Bootcamp will need the brand spanking new processor to understand x86 talk. Remember, it's not emulating, so you need everything to allow to talk natively to Windows. That is what kept Windows from running on a Mac, or the vice versa, OS X from running on an x86 (common Windows/*nux) machines. The Duo made a bridge for that. You will need to get a Duo processor Mac to use it.
Edit: You can use VirtualPC. In my experience, not everything works, it's slow, and buggy. It may have gotten better since, but I can't tell you with certainty.
VirtualPC can't really do much, especially with games, because you'll need an Intel chip for that. At least that's what my friend says..
-Ertai
Yeah, VirtualPC is your best bet. Boot Camp was made because of the switch to Intel chips. It just allows XP to be installed alongside OS X and provides it with the drivers for the mac-specific hardware. Unfortunately, it does not and will not ever work on the G4 chips, especially as they're now discontinuing development of the G4s following the switch to Intel.
I've recently just got a Core Duo Mac Mini and I love it. In fact last week my PC just died on me and there's nothing that I can't do on my mac which I could only do on my PC - and I find that the mac versions or alternatives tend to run better than they did on XP. For that reason, I personally have no reason for boot camp.
Plus, Boot Camp is going to be included in Leopard which will be released on Intel-only macs. I'm not sure how much support there will be for G4/G5 chips even though I'm sure it will be universal. My guess is that overall people could upgrade to Leopard regardless of CPU, but some intel-specific apps like Boot Camp will probably just throw up a message beforehand saying it's detected an Intel chip and without one it can't continue.
So basically, short version of the story... you're lumped with VirtualPC.
*snip*Plus, Boot Camp is going to be included in Leopard which will be released on Intel-only macs. I'm not sure how much support there will be for G4/G5 chips even though I'm sure it will be universal. My guess is that overall people could upgrade to Leopard regardless of CPU, but some intel-specific apps like Boot Camp will probably just throw up a message beforehand saying it's detected an Intel chip and without one it can't continue.
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False... except for BootCamp both PPC and Intel versions of Leopard will be the same. You really think Apple will say f-you to 99% of their user base?