Hi Eileen,

If you’re talking about the Win8PE project that includes NVDA and thus can be 
used as a talking installer, that definitely can work with 64-BIT machines as 
well.

Now, that’s not to say that it will work on a Mac, as there are other issues to 
be aware of, for example, a lack of audio drivers. Your only option would be to 
purchase a USB headset or sound card and try to get audio working that way. I 
have no idea whether this would be feasible as I’ve simply never tried.

But the fact that you have a 64-BIT machine should not stop you from using a 
talking installer.

Grant

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On Dec 29, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

to answer the question about installing Windows in BootCamp without sighted 
assistance still stands and requires sighted assistance. I know there has been 
some discussion about using a talking installer, but it's only for a 32 bit 
machine. Regarding the JAWS license, if you are out of authorization keys, you 
can contact Freedom Scientific and they will load more into your account. I 
can't speak in regards to VM Fusion because I have only BootCamp my machine 
once and will probably go that route again. HTH.

Eileen

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> On Dec 29, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Another advantage of VMware is if you have Jaws on your Window machine, you 
> will not lose the licence as you can cut and paste your Windows Virtual 
> machine anywhere you like.  As long as you tell your VMware that you moved 
> the machine and not done anything else with it, you will not lose your life 
> when using Jaws.  I hope I have this correct.
> 
> If however, you were to put windows on Boot camp, you could lose your jaws 
> licence if you were to format your Mac.  I hope I have this right as well as 
> I’ve only used VMware and have no experience of Boot camp.  Can you still not 
> install Windows via boot camp without sighted assistance?
> 
> Kawal.
>> On 29 Dec 2014, at 22:03, David Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would add a few things to this. If you use Fusion, you can keep a backup 
>> of your VM, or VMs anywhere you like, so even if you have to reinstall OS X 
>> from scratch, you don’t have to lose your VM, or have it backed up by Time 
>> Machine. You can share files and folders  between the two, and largely 
>> protect your Windows from hacks by staying Mac side until you actually need 
>> Windows. You can also take snapshots of your VM to which you can return 
>> should anything ever go wrong with it, and these really do fix a lot of 
>> problems. You can also easily manage your keyboard in Fusion so that you 
>> have pretty much a native Windows experience while in Windows if you wish. 
>> The time to think about Bootcamp is if you want to do something you know can 
>> cause problems in Fusion, or if you don’t switch between systems much or 
>> can’t afford Fusion.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Dave
>> 
>>> On 29 Dec 2014, at 08:13 pm, Marianne Denning <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I asked this question several years ago and decided to put Bootcamp on
>>> my MacBook Air because of everyone's responses.  Here we are several
>>> years later and I would like to know if Bootcamp is still the best
>>> decision if I want to run Windows 7 or 8 and JAWS 15 or 16 on my
>>> MacBook Air.  I read the Applevis newsletter about VMFusion being the
>>> Mac app of the year so that is why the question now.
>>> 
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>>> (513) 607-6053
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