I'd be wondering about the performance. Jaws users have reported
using jaws in fusion quite happily here, but jaws doesn't perform as
well as window-eyes under normal conditions, and as I have to support
the beast, my experience is pretty vast in this area. I'd also be
interested how the ilm performs. The reports are conflicting and I am
not curious enough to try it here, but depending on the level of
direct access vmware provides to the hardware, the ilm may function
great or it may not. Of course, it tends to be a bit glitchy to begin
with as in the case where you replace a broken dvd burner and the
system becomes unregistered.
I think the new window-eyes 7 will probably eat up a lot of jaws
market share when it comes out. I know my company is thrashing to get
out from under the jaws-incombered system here because of the huge
amount of money we're spending on support for ilm and video hook issues.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 24-May-08, at 10:42 AM, Tim Grady wrote:
I don't know about Jaws, but with Window-eyes I have had no problems
on the two Macks I run. You are though more likely to have problems
under Jaws because of their drivers.
On May 23, 2008, at 9:41 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac
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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
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
