Need advice for installing windows.

[alansaysstop]

Hey guys, I have a MacMini I want to throw windows xp or Vista on just to mess around with it a little bit. What is the best way to do it? I have an 80 GB HDD with 2 GB of ram. I believe its 1.83 Core Duo. It's the higher of the two from the generation. I was going to google it, but figured I'd come here to the experts first for opinions and advice

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Boot Camp gives full performance.

Parallels/Fusion virtualise it, so you can run it alongside OS X.

 

[rgarjr]

Yeah, Boot Camp is your best bet. Also why not try Windows 7 RC? Its free to try out.

 

[theITGuy]

Create a 20-25GB partition in Boot Camp assistant in OSX and install XP or like others mentioned try out Windows 7 RC1. You can always delete the partition later if your Windows journey is not satisfactory

Cheers.

-J.-

 

[Infrared]

Boot Camp gives full performance.

Almost. AHCI mode is likely not enabled. Lack thereof, however,
will only have a negligible performance impact in most cases.

The greater problem is where a Boot Camp partition is on the
disk, assuming you go that route. Later sectors tend to have
slower access times (non-SSD). For best performance you need
to dedicate the whole disk to Windows, or place the Windows
partition first.

 

[alansaysstop]

Where can I get windows 7 from?? I'll try that out since I have a pc running xp and I wasn't too big on vista.