Hi I recently had my own difficulties with Parallels. A few weeks ago I bought a brand new MacBook Pro 16 with M2 Pro, 32gb ram and 1tb ssd for using it with Parallels Pro 19 running Windows 11 and ArM Jaws 2023. First of all Parallels isn’t very accessible with Voice Over (which I knew before purchasing), but did it anyway. When all was installed and running I shouldn’t have to worry about Parallels’ inaccessibility. Which was mostly true. My problem with Parallels was certain keyboard keys like control and option were giving me headaches. More than often when pressing one of these (sometimes in combination with other keys) the focus switched to MacOS or no focus at all. Where there wasn’t any speech either. This was true for windowd and full screen. We coulnd’t get this fixed in parallels settings unfortunately. For text editing these keyboard keys are essential in Windows. Other issue was JAWS was a tad sluggish. Perhaps the ARM version of Jaws is’nt optimal yet. The MacBook should have been powerful enough to run everything smoothly. I couldn’t live with it. So I returned the MacBook to Apple and got my full money back from Parallels too. Parallels webpage to ask for a refund I couldn’t do myself, cause the captcha didn’t have an audio challenge. I haven’t tried VM Fusion myself, but from what I read everywhere Parallels is the best Apple Silicon virtual machine software. NOt for me though. I am going to buy a much cheaper Mac and a Windows pc to use next to each other.
Ronald > Op 16 nov. 2023, om 20:47 heeft Maurice A. Mines <kd0iko2...@gmail.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > Hello everyone, I'm writing because I'm extremely frustrated with many issues > in this software. The largest issue that I'm experiencing is the problem > software not recognizing any comports. I think this is a function of my arm > based Mac. I in a licensed radio amateur. That means I must use radio > programming software. This software according to the company that produces > the software should run in a virtual machine that of course is the Arm 64 > version of Windows. This appears to be true on the surface, meaning that the > program, and your programs will install. Unfortunately when it comes to > actually connecting the radios to the computer, because of parallels > insistence that there must be an inaccessible dialog box that demands that > you okay the communications port to be opened meaning it identifies the cable > connected properly but then refuses to actually allow USB data to pass. > > My question to the group is if the time to go back to VMware? Will VMware run > better when it comes to dealing with USB cable communication? > > Two a completely different frustration. It appears that I cannot do anything > without the ubiquitous search box from popping up. Not to mention when the > search box isn't popping up, Microsoft teams takes its place. The only > workaround that I found it seems to be effective for these two situations is > to turn voiceover, and interact with the OS X portion of the computer. > Meaning that I go back to doing things on my Mac, meaning going between > Windows. Navigating between Windows that are open using voiceover. This > approach works about 90% of the time. The other approach is that if there are > too many applications open, and my MacBook Pro begins to freeze, I can go > over to the force quit applet, and pick the application that is causing all > the trouble and forcibly stop it from running. > > The final frustration occurs when I even attempt to which out to the company > for technical support. While I have no problem with "signing in" it would be > nice if my only option were not to have a chat and then t. Just simply > because most of the time those chat clients are not accessible when one uses > either voiceover, or jaws > > So far, it appears that the only positive take away is the fact that I can > use dictation software without too many problems. > > I am curious to know what people on the list thank you? Just for the record, > I have the professional addition of parallels desktop for Mac. I am > currently running Mac OS Sonoma 14.1.1 on aM2 Mac. > > Does anyone have any pearls of wisdom regarding everything I've dictated > about? That brings me to the end of this, if there's something that has been > written about that dictation software did not catch, please ask me what did I > really intend to say. I will be happy to clear up any unintended errors that > the dictation software they have created. > > Sincerely Maurice mines. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/9D38EC48-9FB9-4819-BCB6-358AB5AF07D0%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/A4A39F00-FC59-43D0-8125-E06E33A0E822%40xs4all.nl.
