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Christopher Chaltain <[log in to unmask]>
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Christopher Chaltain <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 7 Sep 2012 13:38:12 -0500
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I don't have a Mac, so I can't speak to specifics about Boot Camp or
Fusion, but it kind of depends on what you're looking for. Boot Camp
will let you boot either Windows or Mountain Lyon. You'll have either
one OS running or the other. Fusion will let you run Windows in a
virtual machine, so you'll start Mountain Lyon, start Fusion and then
have a copy of Windows running along side Mountain Lyon. In other words,
you'll have both Mountain Lyon and Windows running at the same time, and
you can jump between the two.

Like I said, I don't have a Mac, but I do run Ubuntu on a PC. I use
VMware on Ubuntu to run Windows with either JAWS or NVDA in a virtual
machine. I can alt+tab over to my virtual machine running Windows and
then I use control+g to turn the keyboard and mouse over to Windows. I
use control+alt+shift to send the keyboard and mouse back over to
Ubuntu. I'd assume Fusion would behave similarly.

BTW, I also have Windows installed on this machine, so I could boot up
into Windows instead of Ubuntu, but I don't think I've done this since
the first weekend I owned this machine over a year ago.

On 07/09/12 13:27, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I am a long time Windows and Window Eyes User and I am trying to become
> more adept at using a Mac as well. I currently have a Mac mini, which
> can be configured with Lion or the  Mountain Lion operating system and I
> would like to be able to use a Windows environment on this machine as
> well. Many people have encouraged me to go with Bootcamp as it suppose
> to allow me to start off the machine in either the Windows or Mac
> environment. Some people have suggested a program called Fusion to allow
> me to run a Windows environment from inside the Mac operating system. I
> would appreciate your advice on whether to go with Bootcamp or Fusion as
> well as any other input on which Mac operating system provides me access
> to a Windows 7 operating system with Window Eyes as my screen reader. I
> need to make this decision very soon so your timely input and feedback
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Richard Keller
> 
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Christopher (CJ)
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