Good afternoon. I use parallels on a daily basis. It is not completely inaccessible. The only part that isn't accessible is when you are attempting to install a gas system. I would strongly suggest when you do this you use services like Aria, or be my eyes, you can also on occasion see a side family member wishes to help you.
You can use any version of windows that is compatible with an arm system. I have used both Fedora core Lennox the graphical version meaning known desktop. As well as what I'm kindly using Microsoft windows 11 64 bit of course for processors. And as I stated above with the only caveat of installing windows after this installation is done you can use whatever window space screen mirror you wish I use jaws 2025 and NVDA. The good thing about parallels is that I have set it up so that my password is embedded in my virtual machine. So when I must use my virtualized windows in public they never see my machine password Touch ID is a wonderful thing. Meaning that parallel customizes some Windows functions so that you can use them on your Mac without too much hassle. I recently had a display driver issue that Microsoft was able to get fixed. Here's a hint Microsoft will only recognize machines running parallels since it is Microsoft and apple's official answer for virtualizing windows at this time. Yes I've used vmware fusion. Lately that window manager it seems to run quite slow under macOS Sequoia. I don't work for Parallels but parallel seems to run much faster on my machine. The battery drain seems to be minimal. The only drawback, and this is regardless of which manager you use be aware that you must use USB braille, meeting a USB braille display neither vmware or parallels support Bluetooth braille at this time. The good news is my parallels installation does support some USB resources that you wouldn't normally Think would be supported on an arm system. I mean licensed US radio amateur. I can use"RT systems" amateur Radio handheld programming software in the virtual machine. Apparently the arm driver seemed to work when programming two different radios made by Yasu. In addition I have one Digital mobile radio, made by Alinco, when is the Windows arm drivers work very well. And to wrap this up I do have dragon installed in my virtual machine. When I need to use it I've encountered no real issues. In fact dragon and faster under arm, and it runs on my actual windows in to based machine. Just some food for thought. I hope my two cents worth has been helpful to some. If anyone has any specific questions please don't hesitate to write me directly if you think it's kind of clutter the list with our conversation. > On May 11, 2025, at 18:32, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote: > > With Apple Silicon macs, boot camp is no longer an option. Parallels is > available and you need to use windows 11 for arm processors. Unless something > has changed though, Parallels is completely inaccessible with Voiceover. > >> On May 11, 2025, at 9:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I’ve been following with great interest the very lively discussion started >> by the person who’s moving back to Windows from Mac OS. I, however, am on >> the other side of the fence, working my way towards moving to my new Mac >> mini for most of my daily stuff. However, and I may have mentioned this >> before, I do have a couple of programs that won’t run on the Mac, so Windows >> has to be always available to me. I know I can keep my PC, but I remember >> when I had my older Mac mini a few years ago that I did have Windows running >> using VMWare. And, unless there’s another option I don’t know about, we’ve >> got two other options besides VMWare, Parallels and Bootcamp. I did try >> Bootcamp back in the day, but I didn’t like having to reboot back and forth >> between OS’s every time I needed to switch. >> So three guesses where I’m going here, and the first two don’t count: How >> are those of you who do want Windows and Mac OS available at the same time >> go about it? I’ve not seen too much about VMWare, but I have heard lots of >> talk about Parallels lately, so any thoughts on this would be greatly >> appreciated. >> TIA, >> Pete De Vasto >> >> -- >> 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. 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