Very interesting. I'll think about it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Poehlman Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:55 AM To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind Subject: using a Mac to only run windows or not?:
I've changed the subject line of the thread to discuss this since it bares and merits discussion and since it is off topic for the original thread which I quote below for reference. ----- 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 9:06 PM Subject: RE: Mac with Windows OS and Jaws Hello Scot. It's Hamit again. I just asked because what with people talkingYou are not dirtying a Mac by putting windows on it and if that's all you want to do and money is not a consideration, your Mac will serve you well. I have not found windows xp to be sugnificantly faster on a Mac than on a *comparable* pc but then the cost of that pc is not sugnificantly different ehough to justify it's lower price. The Mac hardware is superior to that of the general pc hardware and the nice thing is that if you ever want to run the Mac os, you have the best of both worlds. You do not have a clear option of running mac os on a windows machine. of XP running faster on a MAC then a PC I was curious as to this applying to Vista. The only reason that I asked about being able to run Windows on the MAC ruining the fun of having a MAC is because the way I see it is that would be like turning the MAC into a PC in a sense. So what would be the point of getting one if you are going to do that? Plus one if not the main reason I'd like a MAC is because I want to use the CD burning program Sam Britton talked about on the blind cool tech pod cast called Dragon Burn. It sounded really cool because of the ability you have to record live on a CD. Encase you wandered which MAC I will get because I've made up my mind and I will get one, I'm going to get an iMAC. They are so hot. I really liked them. Scot Howell convinced me to get one in a way with his 2 part pod cast of a MAC too. I'll get one after I get a Vista PC though. You see I have no clue as how to use a MAC accept for a few things and I can't afford and don't want to miss out on any E-mails while learning one. So that's why a Vista PC is my first goal. I have 2 PC's by the way and so I'll replace one of these 2 junky old PC's with an iMAC. That's all, hope to hear from you soon. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Chesworth Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 2:39 AM To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind Subject: Re: Mac with Windows OS and Jaws 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's it for now.
