Windows 8 at mac mini

i want to install at my mac mini, the ''windows 8''..How i can do this..?

C F McBlob wrote:
Never been a fan of Boot Camp. It's a nice cheap way to run Windows, but you have to reboot and then you're ONLY in Windows.
I prefer Parallels (or VMWare Fusion - but I use Parallels) and running a VM of Windows. I have XP, 7 and 8 running in Parallels and have had no problems with them.
Same here. Personally use Parallels as well. I also
have XP, 7, 8 as well as Fedora Linux and an OSX
Mountain Lion VM. All the Windows and the Linux VMs
I use for electrical engineering hardware/firmware/software
design an performance is very acceptable.
The best thing about running Windows in VMs is that backing
up is simply copying a VM file where as in a Windows machine it
is a real pain.
I do have a Win7 Bootcamp install on my 2010 Mini I use
as an HTPC. This so that I can occasionally play Blurays
and get the full audio performance (PowerDVD can decode
audio HD formats to a full 5.1/192kHz/24 bit). The current
Mac based players can only pass the base DTS and Dolby
and cannot decode HD.

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