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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jul 4, 2017 10:17AM

Thanks, Steve. Your recommendations for hardware and software configuration is spot on. The idea of different disks with different operating systems and assistive technologies is excellent.

As Steve, Dominic, and others have said, don't waste your time with VM (virtual machines) with assistive technologies. Software drivers are critical for assistive technologies to run correctly and running VMs can mess up the entire installation.

However, you can run Windows and assistive technologies on Macs through Apple Boot Camp, which isn't emulation/VM but a real separate Windows boot drive carved out of the Mac's hard drive. But that method does require a hard reboot to switch from one OS to the other.

--Bevi Chagnon