[Electronics-talk] mac vs PC

[Drew Hunthausen]

How long would you say it took you before youfelt really comfortable with
the Mac. 

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[mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Priscilla Garces
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 10:58 AM
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Subject: [Electronics-talk] mac vs PC

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
priscillagarces1987 at hotmail.com



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