Can new mac mini run windows 8

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Yes, just like with previous Macs. Use Apple's Boot Camp or a virturalation program like the free VirtualBox

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    I have an imac bought late 2013, can i use it as a display for the new mac pro running windows 8 through bootcamp?

    No. Target Display mode is only supported when connected to a Mac running 10.6 or later.
    It cannot be used with a PC, bootcamp, gamaing console, cable box, DVR or PowerPC Mac.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3924

  • Can the Mac Pro run Window XP (booth camp) and be used as a MAc OS server

    Hi There
    Can the Mac Pro run Window XP (booth camp) and be used as a MAc OS server in the same time?
    I am a small business and I was thinking of using the new mac pro for a new workstation on my studio and to also use it as a server for 5 work others stations. Is that possible? Or I am asking a bit to much work load to do for the Mac Pro?
    Can the Mac Pro can run under Window XP and Autocad and still be accessed by other workstation whilst working on the cad software? Is booth camp will slow the machine like Virtual PC?
    IS the MAc Pro can manage file hosting website with PHP and mySQL capabilites?
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    MAC PRO Mac OS X (10.4.7)

    Great question, but it appears the answer is no (at this time); they promise to work on it immediately. Check this thread at parallels.
    http://forum.parallels.com/thread3659.html
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  • Is it possible to screen share an old iMac running 10.4 with a new Mac Mini running Yosemite

    Is it possible to screen share an old iMac running 10.4 with a new Mac Mini running Yosemite. I am trying to bring the old iMac screen up on the Yosemite system

    Hello! Not out of the box: OS X Mountain Lion: About screen sharing  You'll have to look for third-party options like Teamviewer

  • I am getting Error 150:30 when I launch CS4 on a new Mac Mini running OSX 10.9.3

    I am getting Error 150:30 when I launch CS4 on a new Mac Mini running OSX 10.9.3.
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    CS4 is untested and unsupported under 10.9.x
    That said, you should uninstall everything run the cleaner tool and then download the CS4 installer and try it again.
    If that doesn’t do it, you’re on your own.
    Cleaner tool: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html
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  • Can the new Mac Mini run OSX 10.7.5?

    I have the new 1.4GHz Mac Mini w/4GB Ram. I bought a Mediasonic external 4 bay drive. It's connected by USB 3.0. One of the drives in the enclosure is my old HD with Mac OSX 10.7.5 installed. I've tried booting up from that drive through the USB 3 connection with no luck. Is it an external drive issue or does the new Mac Mini not support that old of an OS? Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks!

    Not outside of a product such as VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop, or VMware Fusion; Mac OS X 10.7.5 doesn't contain the drivers needed to boot that Mac model.
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  • New Mac Mini+Superdrive+windows 7 - Will it work?

    Looking at updating my father to the Apple world, thought I would get him a Mac Mini, and use Bootcamp to install Windows.  As the new Mac Mini doesn't have an optical drive (I have a MacBook Air Superdrive), if I use the external one to install Windows, will it install properly?  Does the Mac Mini have the drivers for the SUperdrive?  Any thoughts?  Thanks in advance.
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    I'm certain running off a SATA drive would double this.
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    Total Number Of Cores: 2
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    Bus Speed: 800 MHz
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  • New Mac Mini running very hot?

    I have just bought (few days ago) a new Mini 2.0GHz with standard 1GB RAM and 120GB HD and it's my first Intel Mini so I have no reference for this behaviour.
    When I boot the system up it shows CPU at around 57-59 C temperature and 1-2% load, so basically idle state.
    If I get it to do things, it will climb up to 78-80 C at 80% load. Did not run at 100% load yet, but 78 C feels pretty hot as it is.
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    Is this normal behaviour or should I return this unit and get a different one?

    3dluvr wrote:
    Thanks for all replies, I guess I'll just have to settle that it runs this high.
    Though some people have told me their Minis are cooler than 57 C idle, I tend to believe Apple does not take much care when applying thermal paste or seating the heatsink onto the CPU. I have read way too many reports supporting this to be the case when people opened their Minis and checked...
    I have same problem that you with new Mac Mini 2GHz and 2GB of Ram and 160GB of HDD.
    Yesterday I run aMule, and I can see CPU B was 79º and CPU A 68º with 50% or 60% of load and I was afraid of it.
    Do you use your Mac Mini to full load and it works well? Did you try to apply a new thermal paste?
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  • New Mac Mini running slowly

    Just bought a new Mac Mini (1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo; 512MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM). Innitially it seemed to run really quickly and smoothly. Then I started loading software on it like MS Office, downloaded Stuffit (new version). Now it takes forever to switch between applications, internet seems slower (but this may just be subjective). Once an app. is up and running it seems to be appropriately fast and responsive, but if I pause for too long, or change between open apps, it takes forever to repond.
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    John

    Performance issues are often highly subjective, so as much as the system may seem to be deteriorating, it's possible that the sense it is doing so is based more on the resultant frustration from small changes in perceived speed resulting from such things as running non-native applications such as MS Office.
    The previous poster is right, I think, in suggesting that you might try Neo Office instead of MS Office, since this will get you out from under the poor performance issues inevitably related to the use of Rosetta. In addition however, I think you might take this opportunity to do a little maintenance to ensure that the system is running as efficiently as possible.
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    YASU will also do some routine tasks such as repairing permissions, clearing log files and caches etc that can all be negatively impacted by installing software and updating the system, so the tasks involved can be beneficial in dealing with deteriorating performance.
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  • Can New mac mini supports SATA III harddisk?

    The new mac mini is used "Hitachi HTS545050B9A302" as harddrive.  I don't know it is a SATA II or SATA III harddisk.
    Can anyone tell me.
    Thanks.

    wongcp wrote:
    The new mac mini is used "Hitachi HTS545050B9A302" as harddrive.  I don't know it is a SATA II or SATA III harddisk.
    Can anyone tell me.
    Apple are likely to use different batches and makes even in the same model Mac. However I believe the above Hitachi drive to be a SATA II which is 3.0Gbps.
    You should not pay too much attention to that however. Not only is this only a 5400 rpm drive (slow) but any single physical hard disk cannot come even close to fully loading a SATA interface. You only need to worry about this if you get a SSD drive and even then you might need to have a RAID0 stripped array to merit a SATA III 6.0Gbps interface.

  • New Mac Mini Running Fine-Mavericks 10.9.5

    I am an Apple convert from Microsoft. Giving up Windows after years of the gut wrenching abuse over the years of XP only to have Microsoft kill it. That being said and out of the way.
    I find my old school computer self coming from the 4 color Amiga Desktop Icons and Apple color palette in yon days of old, only to find countless reviews about Yosemite's "eye candy" problem. Who cares? So far, in the reviews I am reading a bunch of Blah, blah typing. Know one has given or provided conditions in which they installed Yosemite and type of Mac, including, but not limited to, the compatibilty of the Apps they have installed. So, I am here instead of blogging on Apple's Yosemite review page.
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    jndupuis1 wrote:
    I've only had this Mini since August. I have had to update Safari twice, apps once and OS X once. A bit excessive for being so new. ( Well, Microsoft was worse about updates ). You all are helpful in the support community. I'll quit reading reviews now and ask all of you the meat and potato questions.
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    There's a wealth of knowledge here at the ASC - the depth and breadth continues to amaze me and I've been hanging out here for a very long time. You'll find the same level of knowledge at many Linux sites but I've found those to be less forgiving of newbies than the ASC is.

  • My fw800 running 10.5.8 will not migrate to new Mac Mini running snow leop

    My install of snow leopard on the Mac Mini was normal. But I can not successfully migrate my 10.5 stuff to the new mini. I have gone through the migration process at least 10 times. It appears to be running normally but it never finishes. It starts at about 6 hours and gets down to about 2 hours. It sometimes just quits. Sometimes it starts counting back to a longer time left. Some times you get a warning that there might be a problem with my network and to check my cables. I don't believe that after transferring data for 4 hours my cables are bad. The 360 GHz disk on my Mac mini has only 76 GHz left. I have to assume that must have 200GHz of partial transfer garbage on the disk. My only thought is to try firewire instead of using the network but I have to go buy the correct cable tomorrow. I am probably stuck with reloading the 10.6 in any case. Anyone have any thoughts on my messy problem??

    As my Mac mini HD was garbaged up, I put in the snow leopard install CD, used disk util to wipe the mini HD and reinstalled snow leopard. After the install the first couple of windows ask if you want to import your old data. I chose wireless, connected to my old FW800. The complete transfer took an hour including all applications. I was not about to start from square one with all of the apps. Using the network to transfer did not work. The wireless method worked perfectly and quickly. Thanks Bob

  • Is it possible to do an image file restore in a Mac Mini running Windows 7 in Parallels?

    I recently purchased my first Mac, a Mac Mini.  It will have Windows 7 installed with Parallels.  I will probably sell my current Dell laptop Ebay prior to receiving my Mac, and have done a complete data and image file backup to an external drive.  My question is, when I am in Windows 7 on my Mac, will I be able to utilize Windows Restore to load my .iso image from my external drive?   I'd like to have it looking just like what I had on my old Windows machine.  I will have the 1TB fusion drive on my Mac, so space isn't an issue.  My goal is to eventually migrate most of my files and data over to the Mac OS, after which I will only keep a few programs such as Office 2013 in Windows.   Will I have to resize my Windows partition to accomodate this, or will Parallels or Mac OS do this automatically for me?  I'm totally new to the Mac world, so I apologize if these questions have already been answered elsewhere.

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  • Will the new mac mini run FCP X well?

    I currently use a mid 2009 17 inch Unibody MacBook Pro (3.06 Ghz intel core 2 duo, 8GB Ram, and upgraded 1TB SSD hardrive) and have experienced some lag when rendering projects while editing in FCP X.  The SSD harddrive upgrade has proved increase of overall performance tremendously.  However, I want more power.
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  • New mac mini 2011 windows 7 won't connect wireless in bootcamp

    When I boot into win 7 everything is fine apart from I have no wireless connection looked everywhere in setting but cannot find any way of doing it,wireless works fine in lion,I currently connect mac mini by wireless,Ethernet is not possible at this time as to far way,any body point me in right direction.
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