Anybody tried Vista with bootcamp?

dt22 · 23 Jan 2007 at 10:19

Morning,

Was thinking on buying an OEM Vista Home Premium to install on my Mac mini. I just wanted to see if anybody had tried it? And what support was like for the airport card, bluetooth etc.

Cheers,

David

Beepcake · 23 Jan 2007 at 11:18

You can get it working, but you have to mess around manually with the drivers by extracting them from the MSI then going through one by one updating the drivers. If you don't want to game and you aren't bothered about Glass then it's less hassle in Parallels

Will_3rd · 23 Jan 2007 at 11:20

It should work with Vista, and the driver cd that Bootcamp makes you burn should have drivers for Airport and Bluetooth afaik

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

I'm not sure how the integrated GPU on the Mini will deal with Vista's eye candy though

Una · 23 Jan 2007 at 11:24

I have been trying vista on my mini mac recently. Got two main problems really, there seems to be no sound output. However the drivers are installed correctly, and I can see the waveform in volume control...

Driver wise everything was fine, however I have yet to experiement with the drivers bootcamp creates to see if that fix's my sound problem.

Wireless seems to not want to connect to my AP. I can connect to a few others but not this one, which is well weird..

Other than that everything seems to be ok and my development tools work.

dt22 · 23 Jan 2007 at 11:31

Cheers for the replies.

I have been looking around and people seemed to have got everything up and running by manually extracting the drivers.

I think I might have to give it a go!!

David

Beepcake · 23 Jan 2007 at 11:34

You might need to source an older copy of the drivers for some things like the keyboard support (eject key etc) and the startup volume control panel applet.

If you have a gig of RAM or more then the Core Duo minis will work with Glass too.

Una · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:04

Right got sound working now, needed to extract the drivers from the bootcamp drivers cd and install over the ones vista detected was correct.

Apart from that vista is working great, and feels pretty dam responsive (more than OSX (but less than AIGLX/XGL

)

Edit: All working perfectly

punky_munky · 23 Jan 2007 at 20:43

I'm going to wait until Leopard comes out as that will definately 100% work with Vista no problems. The next major release of Parallels promises 3D support & Vista compatibility which is something to consider.

Atari · 24 Jan 2007 at 19:24

I've installed Vista on my MacBook via Boot Camp. So far it's running, but there's a few bugs.

The battery seems to be draining really quickly according to the power meter, it's only been on for half an hour and it's sitting at the 65% mark. Also, I can't seem to get the drivers for the wireless networking card, the mousepad, the camera, or the sound card.

Might downgrade it to XP for now until it gets sorted in Leopard.