Scott,
Usually using Windows through the VM is fine. However, sometimes one might
want to be able to dedicate all of the machine's memory and processing power
to something they need to do on the Windows machine. In those cases it is
nice to be able to boot directly into Windows and not loose any memory or
processing power to having Snow Leopard running in the background. It
actually works very nicely on MacBook Pro 15 and MacBook Pro 17. It is
particularly handy for the person that may be running a bit light on RAM;
like someone only running with two gigabytes of RAM.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <scottn3...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: scanning and the mac
Earle,
That just solves the problem, only go the way of the VM. See the VM is
supreme since you can close Windows when it acts poorly. :) Actually I have
been very pleased with the entire concept of the VM and now I can actually
enjoy only using the things in windows I absolutely must. However, I would
like to just stay in the Mac environment if I had my choice.
Scott
On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Earle M. Harrison wrote:
Hi all,
I believe that the problem is not loosing sound in the VM, but on the
Windows side in a Boot Camp partition. I have set-up several 13 inch
Macbook Pro and invariably experienced the problem of loosing sound on the
Windows side. Last time, we were thrilled because we got sound to work,
installed all the software and then imported the Boot Camp image into a VM
and this process when flawlessly; however, the next time we booted to the
Windows side of the dual boot, sound was gone. Sighted assist found that
nothing was muted and volume was at 100 percent. Reinstalling drivers
from the Apple OS CD did not resolve the problem. On calling the support
departments of both OS's, Microsoft blamed Apple, Apple blamed Microsoft
and the customer decided that working in a VM was best anyway.
Interestingly as David observed, plugging in a cheep USB sound card works
great on the Windows side of a dual boot system, but what a drag to have
to resort to this.
Cheers,
Earle
On Feb 18, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
WIth regard to the sound not functioning on the 13-inch MBP while in the
Windows VM, I have not had any problems at all. The 13-inch MBP I is
maybe a year old and provided by my employer. So, even with all their
tweaks and such, I have yet to encounter any failure in sound while in
the VM. I am wondering if this is more an issue with older 13-inch MBPs.
Scott
On Feb 17, 2011, at 8:52 PM, David Tanner wrote:
It certainly works, features are somewhat limited, it does not use
VoiceOver, and is not setup like a standard Apple application. Instead
it has been ported over to Apple using its' own speech and essentually
the same keys as the Windows version. But, it is better than nothing.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr."
<freethau...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: scanning and the mac
The iPal now works on a Mac.
It is self-voicing.
I never considered one, but just heard from a doctoral student friend
of mine who swears by it, and its speed.
Antonio Guimaraes
On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Caitlyn and Nickels wrote:
Hi,
We have been kicking around the idea of getting a couple of new macs
for a
couple of weeks now since bothour pc's are not working that great
anymore.
The main thing that is holding us back is our heavy reliance on
Kurzweil. I
am a grad student and we also use k1000 for scanning our mail daily.
I know
we could either do a duel boot system or run a virtual machine and
then can
use k1000 this way on the mac, but I wanted to ask knowledgable folks
first
about this before we jumped in.
We heard about another kurzweil product that is for the mac, but it's
not
self voicing, and I don't know if vo works with it. Does anybody
have any
mac specific solutions that work well for scanning text books? For
scanning
the types we all get in the post? I use the bookmark features in
k1000
quite a lot, plus the dictionary a lot and have preferred it a lot for
the
proof reading I do for book share over ms word.
Oh, that's actually another question, we were told that pages actually
isn't
that great or useable...
Lots of this info is coming from people who don't use vo regularly.
For us, though, this scanner stuff is the only thing standing in the
way.
We do have a old power book, but it's the old non intel mac, so we're
stuck
running leopard on it, can't do a virtual machine or anything on it,
it
doesn't support the magic track pad, and we can't upgrade to snow
leopard or
anything beyond what we already have on it(we already called apple
about
it).
Any help or anything would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Caitlyn
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