reduce, reuse, recycle, eh?

why would you want to install vista on a mac? Surely such a tragedy has never occurred.

I'm sure this is a monster of taste and refinement and particularly discerning but, will it also GRATE cheese?

@hu_hu_cool: heres hoping... vistas the reason i now own a macbook and a macbook pro... good job microsoft!

@glass: nice one.

damn who wants vista on a mac XP maybe but vista WTF?!?

@ANoel: Whence Tom Dickson?

@dingus:

mmmm... BLENDED Mac n Cheese!

@crazykid:

Indeed, does this include support for XP 64?

@TDJ114

one would assume that it does

@TDJ114

one would hope that it does

oops didnt mean to say that twice i didnt think it sent

Thanks, Jason!

But, you just pwnd my post Dude!

Oh, come on guys! Just think of how much more secure it will be! Cancel or allow? Think of all the DX10-only game(s) you can play! Cancel or allow?! And what about all of the sweet fading that the windows do when they open and close! Cancel or allow!!!! Shiny buttons! Cancel! Or! Allow! Vista is so awesome! Allow, no I mean Cancel! Cancel! Oh damn there goes my precious registry to all the pron site hackers.

Microsoft still makes Vista?

Who knew.

OS X > Linux > XP > * > Vista.

I would much prefer to have sixty four bit XP support rather than Vista support.

I have Vista Ultimate installed on my Mini (monster), and it actually works better than any PC I have ever installed/used Vista on.

Can you remove Leopard and still run Vista?
That's the only way I would buy a mac.

@mikegriffin: Yes. Just put in the Vista CD and it'll boot up. The rest will be the same as you would do on the PC.

@mikegriffin: Hold down the option key after you turn on to select the Vista CD-ROM, and it'll boot up the CD.

@hu_hu_cool:

so you can do real work.

no mention yet of XP Pro?

gahh, working on figuring out linux. once ive got it down. yeah....screw em both. suse linux ftw!

Doesn't anyone else find it ridiculous that Apple advertises Boot Camp as a "feature" of the OS? It should be standard hardware support, since it really has nothing to do with OS X. I'm still pissed I had to pay for a Leopard upgrade (that I don't use) to get supported Windows drivers.

@regnez: Yea, i noticed that too. I guess its because of the Apple made processor, and the Apple made hard drive and Apple made video processor.

Or maybe because its a Core 2 duo and they are fast no matter what.

Why do people still think that Apple versions of hardware are magically faster than equivalent PC hardware. It shocks me that your are so easily susceptible to PC World's and Apples bullshit.

@diabolusunknown: ''

They don't think so. They know so.

@diabolusunknown:

I cannot figure out if you are being sarcastic or serious?

For the record, Apple does not make processors, video cards, or hard drives. And a hard drive (or its drivers) has very little to do with the performance/compatibility of an operating system.

Also, the mini I have is a (2.33ghz) Core Duo, not a Core 2 Duo.

I was just stating an opinion based on my experiences, and you had to go spout off your Wintel fanboy bullshit.

Maybe next time you could do us all a favor and keep your mouth shut.

@flyboy: such as?

@regnez:

He was being sarcastic. Maybe next time you could do us all a favor and recognize the context first.

I have just installed Vista Business 64-bit onto my Macbook, replacing Vista Ultimate 32-bit, and it works perfectly using the drivers from the new Mac Pro version of Boot Camp (torrent them!). I had to get the video card drivers off intel's website and it works flawlessly - no driver issues at all. I haven't done any benchmarks, but I can now play Portal without the frame rate dropping to an unplayable level when you, you know, fire a portal, which always happened with 32-bit Ultimate. Apparently source games benefit from 64-bit quite a lot. Also, all 4GB of ram can now be seen. I say it's worth a try.

Here's some proof:
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View full size and it should be self explanatory.

P.s. If you're thinking of doing this, check the search box in the top right of the screen shot.