Oh, absolutely! I hate that I wasted money on fusion. I tried using it, but it just wasn't useable in my opinion. I love my bootcamp installation. It works like a dream, and in some ways, the mac out performs my main pc. It's quite cool! I think it depends on your individual needs, but for me, I'd much rather reboot when I need windows and when I want to use the mac as a mac, I've never needed windows at the same time. I hope this makes sense and that it helps a little. Missy
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mika Pyyhkala Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using Boot Camp I'm also curious for those of you who have used both Fusion and bootcamp if you have found bootcamp based Windows installations to be a lot more responsive, etc. Best, Mika On 8/10/12, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. You can read, but not write, the mac partition in windows. It works > the same in mac os: you can read the windows partition, but not write to it. > 2. I use Carbonite, but my understanding is that you can't back up > both as they are different partitions. You could pay $99 per year to > back up your primary drive and a backup drive (your other partition) > but the basic, $59/year package allows only one drive to be backed up. > You can call carbonite (1-877-2225488) and check with them. As to > accessibility, the site works, and the client works well enough on > Windows (you may need the jaws cursor though). I don't know about the > mac client as I have not yet tried it. > On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:51 PM, "Paul Hunt" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone. I have been running Windows with VM Fusion for the >> past two years. Although it works pretty well there are problems. >> 1. Freedom Scientific doesn't support its applications when they are >> running in a Virtual Machine. If I make any changes to the VM I lose >> an activation. >> Freedom Scientific gets quite irritated when they have to reset keys >> too often. >> 2. Although Windows and MS office work pretty well in the VM, Open >> Book does not. >> 3. FS Braille Display drivers do not load in the VM. >> 4. I got a chance to compare performance with the VM and with Boot Camp. >> There is no comparison, Boot Camp performs much much better. >> Here are my questions. >> 1. Will I have any problems reading from or writing to files on the >> MAC partition? >> 2. Do any of you use Carbonite to back up both your boot camp and Mac >> partitions? Is the web site for Carbonite accessible? >> I will continue to use the MAC for ITunes. I also want to keep up >> with accessibility improvements in the IWork suite. >> >> Thanks so much. >> >> Paul >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
