RE: Mac arrives today.

2011-05-02 Thread Dickson Tan
Hi Congratulations on the arrival of your new mac. BTW, which macbook pro did you choose to buy? Did you get the 15" high-end configuration that you intended previously? Interested to hear about your experiences of getting to grips with all the new keyboard controls that vo uses as supposed to a

RE: Macbook and JAWS

2011-04-30 Thread Dickson Tan
A VM stands for a virtual machine which is what it sounds; a virtual computer. Using virtual machines, you can run say windows on snow leopard; that means that both operating systems are active at the same time. If you're interested in doing something like that on snow leopard, look at VMWare fusio

RE: Macbook and JAWS

2011-04-29 Thread Dickson Tan
Hello You are a little confused about the ability to install windows alongside snow leopard. After you install windows using bootcamp with voiceover when in snow leopard, you can boot into windows; it is entirely separate from mac. You need to install jaws on windows. As I said, they are entire

RE: sounds in Bootcamp

2011-04-28 Thread Dickson Tan
Hello You could go into windows 7 and in the sound option of the control panel, look at the output devices that the computer detects and configure them. In some cases, the output device for the speakers and headphones might differ, though personally I've never experienced a problem with headphones

RE: ExFat.

2011-04-15 Thread Dickson Tan
Yup; it allows file sizes of 1 exbibyte, which is 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes (that'll be more storage than we ever need). There are downsides to it though; for all the techy details for those who are so inclined, hit the link. XFat is actually spelled as ExFat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExF

RE: macbook pro specks?

2011-04-15 Thread Dickson Tan
er: @IndigoCellist Skype: shameless_FanGirl Sent from my iPhone On Apr 15, 2011, at 11:16 AM, "Dickson Tan" wrote: > I've found this ridiculously long, 21-page review (which is very good, > with all the techy details you could want). This review talks about > all

RE: macbook pro specks?

2011-04-15 Thread Dickson Tan
list Skype: shameless_FanGirl Sent from my iPhone On Apr 15, 2011, at 8:42 AM, "Dickson Tan" wrote: > Can you tell me, in as much detail as possible, what you can remember > of the specs of the 2 macbook pros you are thinking of buying? > > If performance is important t

RE: macbook pro specks?

2011-04-15 Thread Dickson Tan
specks? More detail is better for me, that way I know what I am getting with my choice. So please elaborate. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dickson Tan Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:24 PM To:

RE: macbook pro specks?

2011-04-14 Thread Dickson Tan
No; you cannot compare processors from different generations that way. Which quad core I7 processor are you referring to? There is the first generation quad core I7 processor and the new second generation sandybridge quad core I7 processor, released only 2 months ago. Although the duel core proce

RE: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player

2011-04-08 Thread Dickson Tan
money I'm saving through out this time gives me enough drive to continue. On 08/04/2011, Dickson Tan wrote: > Hi > > Yes, the legacy kernel is designed specifically for people who's CPUs > aren't support on snow leopard's retail install. The OSX86 boot cd > that I&

RE: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player

2011-04-07 Thread Dickson Tan
em aren't exactly retail. I sware I've scene people add leopard at least to existing os installs so snow leopard should be possible. If I remember correctly, gparted can do stuff to the partitioning so perhaps that might be worth a look? On 07/04/2011, Dickson Tan wrote: > Good po

RE: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player

2011-04-07 Thread Dickson Tan
isionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashley Cox Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:11 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player it will run on that machine. jestures won't though. ash On 07/04/2011 08:

RE: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player

2011-04-07 Thread Dickson Tan
tail snowy won't though because it won't support sandybridge. On 07/04/2011, Ashley Cox wrote: > it will run on that machine. > > jestures won't though. > > ash > > On 07/04/2011 08:44, Dickson Tan wrote: >> Hi >> >> Hmm seems that an accessible in

RE: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player

2011-04-07 Thread Dickson Tan
computer you have at the moment. On 06/04/2011, Dickson Tan wrote: > Hello All > > > > I've been thinking of trying out a mac lately, so I got the retail > version of the snow leopard dvd so that I can test snow leopard under > a vm in windows. I wanted to se

accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player

2011-04-06 Thread Dickson Tan
Hello All I've been thinking of trying out a mac lately, so I got the retail version of the snow leopard dvd so that I can test snow leopard under a vm in windows. I wanted to see if snow leopard was worth the investment of getting a macbook. There are instructions on the net on how to ins