Earle, That just solves the problem, only go the way of the VM. See the VM is supreme since you can close Windows when it acts poorly. :) Actually I have been very pleased with the entire concept of the VM and now I can actually enjoy only using the things in windows I absolutely must. However, I would like to just stay in the Mac environment if I had my choice. Scott
On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Earle M. Harrison wrote: > Hi all, > > I believe that the problem is not loosing sound in the VM, but on the Windows > side in a Boot Camp partition. I have set-up several 13 inch Macbook Pro and > invariably experienced the problem of loosing sound on the Windows side. > Last time, we were thrilled because we got sound to work, installed all the > software and then imported the Boot Camp image into a VM and this process > when flawlessly; however, the next time we booted to the Windows side of the > dual boot, sound was gone. Sighted assist found that nothing was muted and > volume was at 100 percent. Reinstalling drivers from the Apple OS CD did not > resolve the problem. On calling the support departments of both OS's, > Microsoft blamed Apple, Apple blamed Microsoft and the customer decided that > working in a VM was best anyway. Interestingly as David observed, plugging > in a cheep USB sound card works great on the Windows side of a dual boot > system, but what a drag to have to resort to this. > > Cheers, > > Earle > > On Feb 18, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> WIth regard to the sound not functioning on the 13-inch MBP while in the >> Windows VM, I have not had any problems at all. The 13-inch MBP I is maybe a >> year old and provided by my employer. So, even with all their tweaks and >> such, I have yet to encounter any failure in sound while in the VM. I am >> wondering if this is more an issue with older 13-inch MBPs. >> Scott >> >> >> >> >> >> On Feb 17, 2011, at 8:52 PM, David Tanner wrote: >> >>> It certainly works, features are somewhat limited, it does not use >>> VoiceOver, and is not setup like a standard Apple application. Instead it >>> has been ported over to Apple using its' own speech and essentually the >>> same keys as the Windows version. But, it is better than nothing. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr." >>> <freethau...@gmail.com> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:00 PM >>> Subject: Re: scanning and the mac >>> >>> >>>> The iPal now works on a Mac. >>>> >>>> It is self-voicing. >>>> >>>> I never considered one, but just heard from a doctoral student friend of >>>> mine who swears by it, and its speed. >>>> >>>> Antonio Guimaraes >>>> >>>> On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Caitlyn and Nickels wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> We have been kicking around the idea of getting a couple of new macs for a >>>>> couple of weeks now since bothour pc's are not working that great anymore. >>>>> The main thing that is holding us back is our heavy reliance on Kurzweil. >>>>> I >>>>> am a grad student and we also use k1000 for scanning our mail daily. I >>>>> know >>>>> we could either do a duel boot system or run a virtual machine and then >>>>> can >>>>> use k1000 this way on the mac, but I wanted to ask knowledgable folks >>>>> first >>>>> about this before we jumped in. >>>>> >>>>> We heard about another kurzweil product that is for the mac, but it's not >>>>> self voicing, and I don't know if vo works with it. Does anybody have >>>>> any >>>>> mac specific solutions that work well for scanning text books? For >>>>> scanning >>>>> the types we all get in the post? I use the bookmark features in k1000 >>>>> quite a lot, plus the dictionary a lot and have preferred it a lot for the >>>>> proof reading I do for book share over ms word. >>>>> >>>>> Oh, that's actually another question, we were told that pages actually >>>>> isn't >>>>> that great or useable... >>>>> >>>>> Lots of this info is coming from people who don't use vo regularly. >>>>> >>>>> For us, though, this scanner stuff is the only thing standing in the way. >>>>> We do have a old power book, but it's the old non intel mac, so we're >>>>> stuck >>>>> running leopard on it, can't do a virtual machine or anything on it, it >>>>> doesn't support the magic track pad, and we can't upgrade to snow leopard >>>>> or >>>>> anything beyond what we already have on it(we already called apple about >>>>> it). >>>>> >>>>> Any help or anything would be appreciated! >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Caitlyn >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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. 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