I like the idea of using fusion so far in order to help me with my switch.
By chance, are any of you aware of any tutorials, or installation guides for
installing windows under fusion? I imagine at some point, you would have to
do some key remapping on the windows side to make things work properly for
JAWS and windoweyes.
Best Regards,
David Wright
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----- Original Message -----
From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: Cost of BootCamp
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
Mobile: (832)518-0707
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.knfbreader.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "erik burggraaf"
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
by theblind" <[email protected]>
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
erik burggraaf
Certified Technician
Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
Sales department: 888-828-2445
Support and Training: 888-255-5194
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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]
http://www.knfbreader.com
