Gordon Smith has an excellent podcast at: www.blindcooltek.com, that
walks you through the steps of installing Windows with Fusion. I had
it saved on my hard drive and just listened to it last night. Richie
Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
On May 23, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Dave Wright wrote:
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]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
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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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
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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
