I had been using bootcamp because I knew it would work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:20 PM Subject: Re: my fusion experiences:
Why did you decide to install bootcamp? On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:58 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought some might find interesting the experiences I've gained by > installing and attempting to use fusion on my imac and macbook. I > decided > after going through this that fusion and most likely paralells is > not for > me. > > I first installed it on my Macbook using bootcamp as the virtual > machine. > After a lot of trial and error, I realized that I was not going to > get jaws > activated nor was I going to settle the video intercept issue. I > have to > day though that I was favorably impressed with the ease of use and > accessibility of the vmware interface considering the complexity of > the job > it has to do . > > I then proceeded to install it on my Imac this is a core2 duo > 2.16ghz system > with 3gb of ram and an 500gb hd. Again, I was impressed with the > interface > and also on both the speed of the final product although I didn't > perform > any heavy tasks. I was not impressed though by the number of > drivers I had > to reinstall and that I had to reinstall them each time I shut down > and > restarted the vm. I guess without jaws in the mix, and a bit of > tinkering, > this could be a good solution. I only tried it ow because I needed > a more > efficient environment in which to work, but I'll settle for two > computers > one for the windows side of the project and the other for the Mac > side of > it. > > Lastly, be warened, you will find your self having to reactivate > windows if > you use fusion after installing windows through bootcamp and if you > decide > you want to just boot into windows directly, another activation and > then if > you want to use fusion again, another activation... > >
