I was intrigued by reading reports that Windows 10 is more efficient than previous versions of Windows in that it eats up less RAM, and RAM is at a premium in the A1278 Mini, as it can only address 3GB max. A lot of trial and error resulted in discovering a back-door method that allows installing and running the current version of Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (presently 21H1 as of this writing). Apple abandoned support for that hardware platform long ago, so I wondered if any version of Windows might run on them. Installing the last supported MacOS 10.7.5 was not very promising as modern web browsers won't run on them and the browsers that will run lack the security needed for modern websites. I embarked on this journey when I inherited 4 unwanted 2006-2007 Mac Minis and wondered if there was anything I could really use them for. I previously documented this method of installing the current version of Windows 10 Pro 64-bit on the A1278 Mac Mini in a thread on the macrumors web forum, but thought the wider Reddit community might benefit from it.
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