Josh, I could hardly be called an experienced apple user or fusion
user, but I've been running fusion for about three weeks now to do odd
jobs inside windows. Before that, I was using bootcamp. There are
plusses and minuses to each, but over all I have to say using bootcamp
was a real drag compaired to fusion. I can't speak to paralells
desktop.
As a new user, here's what struck me.
The installation was incredibly fast and rediculously easy.
Fusion provides it's own device drivers. Some of these are very good
like the keybord driver which is a huge improvement over bootcamp's.
Some of these are terrible, such as the sound driver. under bootcamp,
I had the actual realtech driver for the surround sound card in this
macbook. Under fusion now I have a creative soundblaster emulater
driver or some useless thing which has only the most basic options and
no real features to speak of.
Under bootcamp I didn't have a number pad which I rely on very
heavily, but I have that back now thanks to fusion. I modified window-
eyes to use control and option for html table navigation once I got
the voices set up the way I want them, and so as much as I'd like to
map the grave accent or the enter key or something to an insirt, I
don't strictly need to do this thing.
By shutting off Vin Fusion, I can pretend I'm in windows, as long as I
don't hit command tab away.
I also get a highly accessible button and option set in fusion for
every major device in my system. Right now for example, I'm letting
the macbook handle my networking under windows. If I wanted to, I
could hit the network button in fusion and nat my windows VM, so that
I could access network files and printers. I haven't needed to do
that, but I do have the option there if I want it.
I also have an emulation of the windows start menue in my fusion menue
bar. I thought that was kinda fly when I first saw it, but I don't
find it of even the slightest practical use so far.
I do experience the odd performance break in fusion, especially if
running IE. I've switched to firefox and stemmed the tide quite a
bit, but the only major thing I do in windows, scanning using k1000,
drags the vm down just a little bit. I only got the two gb of ram,
been seriously considdering going in to the mac store and telling them
to max out the ram.
Hope this helps,
Erik
On 12-Apr-08, at 8:20 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Quick question to those of you using Fusion. What, if any, areas or
features of the program are inaccessible with VoiceOver? What do
you particularly like or dislike about the software? I'm
considering switching from Parallels Desktop to Fusion, but want
some notes from experienced Fusion users. Thanks.
Josh de Lioncourt
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