Macs with intel chips query

Help please I have been holding out for the Mac mini to be upgraded to the intel chip which is now available but I am faced with a dilema. My son who will be princple user has special needs and most of his apps run on system 9 which I have found out today will not run under Rosetta. Most of his software will however run on windows. Does anyone know if its possible to boot an intel mac to run windows or if it might be available in the future. I dont want to turn to windows if possible as he has always got on well with his ageing G3 running OS9 and our G4 running OS 10.4

You can run emulator on Intel Core Mac's. I am aware that Microsoft and Apple differ in vision of VirtualPC and am not aware wheather Rosetta supports VirtualPC emulator.
However, there is shareware iEmulator wchich works fine with Windows, DOS, Linux emulation on Mac's. I had brief exchange with one of their engineers about supporting Intel based Mac's in terms of realasing Universal version of iEmulator. They are preping for that and they should do that soon.
Now I find any PC emulation very slow on Mac' I have tried Windows 98, Windows 2000 and SUSE Linux 10. All of them work and even get some choppy audio (emulated Soundblaster), but if one means Windows gaming then I would drop emulation of any type. Gaming requires fast native environment.
BTW emulators like iEmulator support Internet so you can do browsing and e-mailing with Windows tools.
If just running program for Windows is what you want on Mac then you may give it try (bring-your-own-windows):
http://www.iemulator.com
But I wouls not say that without fast CPU this is usable solution.
Now, I already have Intel Core Duo Mac mini. It is not lightning fast. My PC with Celeron D 2.8 that built myself is faster... and it was cheaper. Mac Mini is just like a laptop/notebook without keyboard, mouse and monitor. It has much better organized, really user fiendly system... called... Mac OS X which makes it worth buing and using as primary computer. I use my PC only as a backup since computing world is crazy and to many it is MS-Windows synonym... stupidly enough.

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