Hamit - couldn't tell you about Vista and Jaws 9 because I have neither.
from everything I've read, Jaws 9 should be fine, Vista is still buggy under
virtualisation and the graphics support seems lacking to look at, so no idea
if it'd play nice with screen readers yet. If you try this, let us know how
you get on and go in to it not expecting miricals.
As for Windows ruining the mac, many many purists think so. I've seen people
who own everything from mini's through to macbook pros and use windows on
them almost exclusively. Their argument is that it's just like having a
windows box with cooler hardware. That to me feels like they're missing out,
but what I'm trying to say is that it's different strokes for different
folks. Personally, I find the ability to run both OS's at a snap quite cool,
and every time I restart back in to mac os I get a feeling of relief haha.
Find your own balance that makes it easiest for you to do whatever you need
your mac to do, and ignore the purests.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hamit Campos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:07 AM
Subject: RE: Mac with Windows OS and Jaws
What about Vista and Jaws 9? I don't remember that being brought up. I'd be
curious to know just how that works. Just as a quick side question. Don't
you guys think that putting Windows on a MAC kind of ruins the fun of having
one?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Keen
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:12 PM
To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind
Subject: Re: Mac with Windows OS and Jaws
Oo! Oo!
Who delurked me?
Blinking in bright light and gulping rather nervously.
Um, right, well I have - sort of.
What I mean is my son has set my mac book up so I can dual boot, if I
do nothing it goes in to, spit, windows. If I hit option key it goes
to, sigh, leopard and voice over.
The sad thing is I know nothing other than I can at last free myself
from the dark lord of Seattle and have the tools to defeat the dark
arts.
Here's a thing though my son is a software architect who uses a mac
to do his job and has been encouraging me to dump microsludge for a
while now. He works for a mapping solutions company here in the U.K.
called multimap.com and has been active in web accessibility on my and
other blind computer users behalf for some years now. He is very
involved in web 2.0 here in the U.K. but when I can blackmail him in
to doing something for his dear old Dad he is frightfully good about
it, currently he is engaged in reverse engineering a tool for reading
talking newspapers with his pearl script skills and hopefully I will
be able to make this available to other users of T.N.A.U.K
publications in the U.K. soon.
Oh dear I do seem to have gone on rather a lot, forgive a garrulous
old fool who really prefers lurking in the background.
Cheers
G
From glorious Devon, England.
a
On 7 Dec 2007, at 19:24, L. T. Reed wrote:
Has anybody installed Windows XP and Jaws on their Macx and
successfully used them. Any problems?
Ted Reed.
Gordon Keen
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That's it for now.
