I posted earlier to the list that my non-scientific tests between
Virtual Box on my MacBook Pro and a real Dell desktop was about a 10 to
15% slower performance. Not bad considering all the layers of stuff the
virtual machine goes through.
CB
erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi, you mean, how fast and how stable is windows running in a fusion
virtual machine I think, smiles. I have not done any tweaking to mine
at all such as forcing the computer to share half it's ram to the vm
which is a pretty good idea I just saw posted here his morning.
I think I'd get marginally better results that way. I can't say it's
seemless, or that you'd never experience the ocasional slow switch
betweenapplication windows or the odd stutter in the speech. I'm
having a performance issue in my vm with window-eyes and ms office
2003, but I'm having the exaact same symptims on my turion 64 notebook
running windows exclusively.
I haven't had performance breaks running kurzweil 1000 version 11 and
it's digital voices. That's something right there. It's the most
high powered computer application I'm likely to use my vm for and
there's nothing to complain about here.
If you are going to do massive audio and video applications they might
work better in bootcamp, but for day-to-day computing, such as
switching to windows to use a voice chat program that isn't supported
under mac, you don't want to have to ditch the whole mac os to do
that, especially if your email, web browsing, music library, ftp and
torrent sites, and all the rest of your day to day computing is over
on the mac side. Essencialy, that would mean you did nothing else
while you were logged on to voice chat on the windows side. That's
not good logic to me, and for minimal stuff like that, you won't
notice any break in performance, even without tweaking fusion.
Best,
Erik
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On 23-May-08, at 6:41 AM, Dave Wright wrote:
Just out of curiosity, how responsive is fusion? I like the idea of
running windows on a virtual machine, but I am slightly worried about
it being sluggish especially with JAWS or Windoweyes.
Best Regards,
David Wright
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----- Original Message ----- From: "erik burggraaf"
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Cost of BootCamp
I did need sighted assistance. Or at least I used sighted
assistance, although I have a theory that you could do the bootcamp
install with an answer file. Then you would only need some one to
click you through your driver instalations.
I like fusion personally. After trying both rather extensively I
found advantages and disadvantages to both. The reason I
ultimately went for fusion was first a desire to run mac os for
most of my day-to- day computing and not to have to reboot to do
some chore in windows,
Second, better file sharing between mac os and windows,
and third, a nice keybord driver in fusion that let me keep my
number pad on the right side of the keybord so I could use
window-eyes.
Fusion costs $75. If you are on a tight bugget that might be a factor.
Best,
erik
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On 22-May-08, at 8:40 PM, Ryan Mann wrote:
Before you start using Boot Camp, are you aware of Vmware Fusion?
Vmware Fusion allows you to run Windows in a virtual machine and
you can install it without sighted assistance. I believe you
need sighted assistance to install Windows under Boot Camp.
On May 22, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Dave Wright wrote:
Hey there all,
I'm well on my way to switching to a mac and I think I've managed
to convince my girlfriend to do the same. As such, we will be
definite beginners. In order to switch from PC to Mac, I'm still
going to be running a copy of windows with bootCamp. I'm
wondering first how well this works? Second, how much does
bootCamp run for? Finally, how hard is it for a blind person to
set up a windows installation with bgootCamp? Thanks all for your
help.
Best Regards,
David Wright
Mobile: (832)518-0707
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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