[Electronics-talk] mac vs PC

[Priscilla Garces]

I'm a totally blind user of both PC and the Mac. At first it took some time to really figure out the mac, but now its pretty intuitive. I would be flat out lying if I said mac is so easy on the first try, no, not really folks; it does take some getting used to the different settings . On top of the different way it is set up, the cursor is different on the mac than on the PC. on the PC the cursor is to the right of the text, but on the mac the cursor is between the 2 letters. for instance, if you spelled mac the cursor on windows is to the right of the letter c and on the mac the cursor is between the a and c. In windows jaws would be saying m a c every time you arrow to the left or right which is more accurate when proofreading. On the mac, the cursor is between the letters which makes it confusing and you then end up deleting the wrong letter, but you can set the cursor to work like windows under the preferences for voiceover. It took me a while to figure the settings but I can now do that with no problem. The advantage of owning the mac is the cost effective solution and the in person technical support you receive with added training at there centers whereas windows you have to sometimes send out parts of a computer and if you need tech support you have to wait a long time especially if you have to deal with jaws and it's flukes. besides the in person tech support and servicing of parts between both PC and mac, on the PC you can only use the keyboard with jaws and thus it takes longer sometimes to complete the needed tasks where as on the mac you can use the trackpad as a mouse and you can actually press on any part of the trackpad and it will read the text on the screen. + navigation with the trackpad is faster and more so if you use the keyboard in addition to the mac. Voice over has cool voices and are more up to date whereas jaws have the monotone robotic voices which makes me personally want to fall asleep when reading tedious amounts of documents as a college students. I love alex because his voice is a lot more humanlike and has a variety of expression. In that case I would just say that you have to decide on what you feel more comfortable. But me personally after the mac i'm not looking back except when I work at an office using a PC but for personal use, that's a different story. What is your view on the use of the Mac verses PC?
I'm just curious to know if some of you share the same opinion or have something similar.

Thank you very much.




Priscilla Garces
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