Parallels on a G4 machine?

[Fiddlerchick]

We recently switched to Mac, and now have a brand new Mac Mini and also picked up a second-hand older Mac Mini (about 4 years old) that I understand has a G4 processor. We got the latest version of Parallels software when we bought the new Mac, but since I do a fair bit of film and audio editing (we're musicians), our friends cautioned us against running Parallels on the new machine, and if I must run my old Windows editing software on the new Mac, partition the HD w/Bootcamp instead and save myself a lot of grief.

Nevertheless, since the new Mac will be the "main" workstation, I wonder if we could put Parallels on the old Mac Mini with the G4. Does the older processor support Parallels, especially the newest version? We just bought a couple months ago.

Thanks very much!

Brenda

[Cypher]

You need an Intel processor to run windows virtualisation so unfortunately installing Parallels on the G4 mini isn't going to be an option.
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Phil

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[Fiddlerchick]

Thank you!

I had a feeling it wasn't going to work...
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Brenda K
1 brand-new Mac Mini (July 2010)
1 G4 Mac Mini (2006)
1 elderly HP Pavilion PC
1 middle-aged NEC PC notebook
1 brand-new Time Capsule

[Smithcraft]

About the only way to do it would be with VirtualPC, however, it is slower than you can imagine to run Windows. DOS it can handle in a decent manner, but Windows is almost unusable.

SC
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Grumpy old man of computing.

[Desktop] G4 mini - 1.5Ghz 1GB 80GB HDD - Newer miniStack v2 500GB - 10.5.8

[Media System] Intel i5 mini - 2.33Ghz 8GB 500GB HDD - 4 x Hitachi 2TB HDD in a qBOX-SF - 10.7.5 (Thanks Phil!)

Make sure it has pins!

[Fiddlerchick]

Thanks SC! I guess we'll just use it as is.

Brenda
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Brenda K
1 brand-new Mac Mini (July 2010)
1 G4 Mac Mini (2006)
1 elderly HP Pavilion PC
1 middle-aged NEC PC notebook
1 brand-new Time Capsule