You can set up a mac to 'dual boot' where you partition your hard drive
in two pieces with Windows on one and MacOS on the other. Then Apple's
BootCamp tool lets you pick which one you want to start up. When running
Windows this way it's no different than any other PC laptop and your
Apple turns into one of the best high-end Windows machines. The downside
is you have to be in Windows 'mode' or Mac 'mode' and the two do not
share or talk to each other. So there should be no reason that any USB
Windows device wouldn't be happy in that arrangement. That said, the
more integrated approach is to use VMWare Fusion to emulate some PC
hardware so you can essentially run Windows as an app on your Mac. While
I haven't had the need to attach a lot of USB devices, usually when I do
and VMWare is up and running it will ask if I want the newly attached
USB device connected to the Mac side or the virtual Windows instance. I
would think that if you chose Windows the Windows app running in the
virtual windows would have no idea that it's not running on a real PC.
Of course the virtualization is not always perfect but a lot of things
seem to just work. Would probably be worth giving it a go with Fusion.
CB
On 1/17/14 4:16 PM, Robert C wrote:
Hi everyone,
Just joined the list. Got a MacBook Pro recently, and will start
training on it next week.
First of many questions, but will not fire them off too quickly. I am
switching from Windows 7 to the Mac. One program that is not yet
supported by OS X Mountain Lion is Duxbury. I will keep the Windows
laptop to run that and MS Office.
I had asked Enabling Technologies, who makes the Juliet embosser, if
the embosser will work connected via USB to the Mac with Windows on
it. This is their response.
"...in a dual boot environment rather than in a virtual machine.
However, we have not tested this."
Does this mean I cannot use VMWare for this? If so, will dual boot be
accessible anyway? What is the difference between the two modes? I
hope to get answers I can put to use during the training. Thanks.
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