Actually, you need to let the MAC's Bootcamp assistant Utility do the
partitioning for you I think. Better safe than sorry at any rate. For space,
I have a 500GB HD on my 2011 iMac. I just split it down the middle 256GB for
MAC and Windows each. I've never even come close to using anything like that
on any machine I've ever owned, so a MAC with 256GB and a windowsPC with
256GB is no limitation. If needed though, I have a 2 TB firewire800 external
drive that I also split up into various sized partitions (drives) and that
covers any space needs. For instance, I have my 33 GB Dropbox account on the
external, as well as all my SuperDuper backup images.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Blouch" <cblo...@aol.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: Fusion boot camp or parallel
As others have mentioned, for bootcamp you have to partition your drive
into two pieces, a Mac chunk and a Windows chunk, which means both sides
will have less space and you have to plan ahead since you can't easily
change this down the road. That means you might have to allocate a bunch
of space to Windows 'just in case' which gets taken away from the mac
side. Fusion is just an app except the documents it creates are virtual
machines. You can give a Fusion virtual machine a large partition but
the 'document' will only use as much as needed. Just like you can make a
Pages doc that is 100 blank pages and it will be pretty tiny because
there is nothing in it. So this is a big advantage. You don't have to
know ahead of time how much space to give to Fusion. Just give it 40GB
or so and then it will only use the 9-10GB it actually needs and will
grow that space as needed. You launch Fusion when you need to do some
Windows stuff and quit it when you're done. Other than the disk space it
uses up for the virtual machine document it has no impact on the
performance of your Mac once you quit it. While it's running it will
suck up whatever CPU and memory you've allocated to the virtual windows
machine but then you quit and that all comes back to the Mac side.
I haven't used boot camp but disk utility is fully accessible so you
should be able to do the disk partitioning yourself if you want to go
that way. I'm sure others here can give the blow by blow instructions.
CB
On 6/16/13 6:21 PM, zoe wrote:
Oh ok got it now. One more question that I thought of and please accept
my
appologies for asking what may seem stupid questions and for asking them
scattered, my mind is all over the place and I seem to be asking questions
as they come. Am I to understand that with bootcamp the drive would be
partitioned but with fusion it would not? Apple said for the partitioning
of the drive they would charge me two hundred and fifty dollars, if I half
to pay it oh well, then I will, but have I gotten confused somewhere down
the line? I'm sure the drive is partitioned for bootcamp but fusion?
Thanks again and again I'm so sorry for my confusion.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hall" <mehg...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: Fusion boot camp or parallel
No, Refit is free and something you will add once you get your machine.
Jaws
can only read the Windows logon/lock screens, not the boot screen. When a
computer first boots, no operating system has started yet, which is why no
screen reader can possibly be loaded.
On Jun 16, 2013, at 4:21 PM, zoe <fiog...@rogers.com> wrote:
hmmmm refit manager is that something extra I half to by or can apple add
it
on for me? Also since I'm going to be installing windows with jaws, and
jaws can be configured to the log screen would that do the trick?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hall" <mehg...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: Fusion boot camp or parallel
Voiceover cannot speak on the boot screen since it is not loaded yet.
Apple
would have to add some form of speech into BIOS, which would be difficult
to
impossible. You can do what I did, though: install the Refit Boot
Manager,
letting you press m for mac or w for windows when you boot the machine.
On Jun 16, 2013, at 11:20 AM, zoe <fiog...@rogers.com> wrote:
Oh thanks so much, good to know I won't have problems with jaws. As I
said
the man at the apple store actually suggested parallel but if fusion
does
the trick and most people seem to like it I guess maybe that's the way
to
go
especially if I'm going to be asking for advice on the use of the
program.
The man at the store thought parallel was a better choice but didn't
state
the reasons why. Don't mean to be repetative but can apple configure
voiceover for me when shipping the imac to me to start up automatically?
Also if using fusion will voiceover speak on the log screen to help me
navigate weather I want to boot mac or windows?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Parsons" <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: Fusion boot camp or parallel
Yes, you can install JAWS or any other screen reader on the Windows part
of
your Mac. It doesn't matter whether it's running as a duel installation
(i.e. bootcamp) or as a virtual machine (e.g. VM Fusion).
I am curious if any of these people who keep saying parallels is
inaccessible have actually tried using it lately, or whether they are
just
passing along old hearsay that might now be obselete. I think Alex at
least
mentioned that he hadn't used it lately and things might have changed. I
was
told fairly recently that Parallels was accessible with JAWS, but that
there
was some problem with the JAWS key which is typically the insert key by
default. I've never tried installing Windows on my Mac in any form
though
so
I don't know. I'm just worried though that this might be one of those
accessibility rumours that gets propogated longer than it should because
of
course no one tests the thing anymore because they are told it's not
accessible.
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