Hi Gordon and all,
Just listened to the VM Demo in its entirety, and I have to say, Gordon did
a fine job demonstrating VMWare.
I bought my first Mac this summer, after having used JAWS and Windows since
the DOS days.
My iPhone's accessibility was the deciding factor in my decision to purchase
the iMac. My principle use of computers these days is reading and writing
documents, and making extensive use of spreadsheets for all manner of tasks
involving the manipulation of text and data.
Unfortunately, I don't see any reason to learn an entirely new productivity
suite like Apple's iWork, since I know and use MS Office extensively. I like
the Mac iTunes and iMovie apps and I'm sure there are others I'll get to
know and use, but for productivity, I can't beat the combination of MS
Office and JAWS.
Now enter VMWare Fusion.
The demo makes me want to give the VMWare Fusion trial version another shot,
this time installing windows as a guest instead of using my existing
bootcamp. But, I think I'd have to either first remove the bootcamp to free
up the license, or, buy another Windows license to install windows7 as a
guest - and I'm a little shakey on both.
I've got half my 500GB drive dedicated to bootcamp, and the other to MAC OS
X. In all my days, I've never exceeded 50 GB on a system drive, so I don't
feel too constrained by this arrangement. I've also got a 2 terabyte
firewire800 drive apportioned half to each system, so I feel I have ample
storage.
As it stands then, I have two systems in one iMac hardware package, and but
for the minor inconvenience of having to reboot to access the other OS, and
remembering the minor keyboard differences, it's working well for me.
Well, I just wanted to congratulate Gordon on a fine job with the demo, and
give my thoughts on the Mac from the perspective of a long time DOS/Windows
user.
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