Snow leopard on new 2011 Mac mini?

Please explain why u can not Install snow leopard on new 2011 Mac mini?

Actually You Can. Use any late Macintosh that will run Snow Leopard and either boot from a 10.6.3 universal installer that been intalled on a hard drive (quickest) or boot from the UNIVERSAL OS X 10.6.3 DVD. The new Mac Mini should be connected via FireWire in TARGET MODE to the host Macintosh.
Use disk Uitility to format the Mac Mini Hard Drive and install 10.6.3 on it. When it boots (still in target mode) it will be the boot drive for the host macintosh.
Then install 10.6.8 update and iLife 11 and Applejack (this will fix the install in the end).
Then run software update and carry out all updates that it indicates.
After that shut down and take the Mini off Target Mode and disconnect the firewire cable.
Restart the Mini and run software update again. Note - the cursor may take any number of shapes at this stage but continue on. Certainly you wil be asked to run software update OS X 10.6.8 supplemental which should fix the cursor problem.
Restart and hold dowm <Command><S> until a black screen with white writing appears. Wait for it to scroll down to the end and at the prompt type applejack AUTO restart and then press <Enter>
Applejack will run 5 routines which may take some time and at the finish it will restart.
That should be it!
One codicil. If you read the stuff that Applejack brings up you will see that half the processors are not working. This is no big deal and does not seem to affect the operation at all.
The good news is that SL will run on a new Mac Mini which should satisfy a lot of users who have apps that are not yet Lion Compatible.
Happy to communicatewith anyone having problems. [email protected]

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