I’m pleased to say the RTM release of Vista installs and runs without any problem on the Mac Mini. Glass was enabled on first boot, my network connection was up and running immediately, and the system itself seems to be very snappy. I can’t comment on sound or Media Center performance yet - I only finished installing at about 1am - but I’ll try that later.
For the curious, here’s the Windows Experience Index stats:
Processor: 4.6 (Dual Core 1.66)
Ram: 4.5 (1gb)
Graphics: 3.4 (Intel integrated)
Gaming: 3
HDD: 4.4 (stock hard drive)
So a WEI of 3 thanks to the gaming performance, but very reasonable scores for everything else.
Interestingly, in order to fix a Bootcamp problem I had to reinstall OS X. Performing back to back installations of OS X, followed by Vista was an interesting experience. Vista certainly seems to install in a shorter amount of time than OS X.
There’s more to come on both Vista on the Mac Mini, and the future of my little Apple machine.