Can I startup with Leopard from Mac Mini using iMac G5 as display?

I'm considering a mac mini purchase after the release of leopard. I have a iMac G5 that is not cutting it for film rendering. I would like to use it as a display for my Mac mini. Can I use Startup disk and work in the Mac Mini's OS?

No, you can't use a G5 iMac as if it were the mini's boot drive and display, and even if you could, that's an incredibly expensive drive and display. It would make far more sense to sell it and use the money to purchase a fast external drive and good quality monitor for the mini.
The nearest solution allowing you to continue to use the iMac and output the mini to it is to use the iMac to control the mini using one of the many flavors of VNC. That will allow you to display the mini's output, in effect in a window on the iMac. However, while this would allow you to take advantage of the mini's processing power, performance of the network connection is likely to influence the efficiency of possible use for applications such as video project development which rely heavily on continuously streaming data.
I find it curious that the G5 iMac is so woefully ineffective in this use that you would be considering this. What specification is the iMac, what video software are you using, and in what way do you find it problematic?

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bwhit:
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
No reason why you should not be able to do it using Firewire Target Disk Mode. Here's what you do:
1. With both computers shut down connect both via firewire.
2. Startup the Mini and hold down "T" key immediately after chime.
3. Startup the PB and immediately after chime hold down Option key.
4. Select second HDD icon on the screen and click on the right pointing arrow.
5. Computer will boot from Mini's HDD.
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Please do post back with an update or with further questions or comments.
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I have a Mac Mini with one HDMI port and one Thunderbolt port. I have a Thunderbolt-only audio interface, so I need to connect my monitor to the HDMI port.
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Hello
I switched about 6 months ago when I bought a Mac mini, and I'm definitely loving the whole Mac-thing! However, the computer is kinda weak, I recently read that the video card on Mac mini stops working properly if the screen resolution exceeds 1280x960, or something. What I have noticed is that the Tiger animations such as Exposé and Dashboard stutter very annoyingly, user switching cube doesn't rotate very nicely at all, and iTunes visualizer seems to be too heavy for this computer. As silly as it may sound, but this has been a huge turn-off for me.
And the iLife apps seem to be a little heavy as well, I'm seeing the spinning beach ball very often, and GarageBand is giving me error messages about the hard drive being too slow...
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Thanks for your replies!
As for the speed problems with Mac mini, I've repaired permissions, verified disk, I've used apps like YASU and Onyx, but these haven't really improved the performance much. I also have about 45 gigs of free space, so that's not a problem, I think? I would imagine I have these "problems" simply because of the 4200 RPM hard drive, and because of the rather crippled video card with very little VRAM.
I did a little test, and Exposé (with maximum of 4 windows) was ultrasmooth when the Dock was set to hide, and there were no icons on the desktop, go figure? And the other graphical stuff was really smooth when I reduced the resolution, but that is not really a solution with an LCD display.
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