[Electronics-talk] mac vs PC

[Jorge Paez]

Several months,

though I had taken classes with a Mac before.


My idea is always to try and play around with whatever tech gadget I'm interested in at a display, 
store, class or something,
so I know I can get what I want from it.


Jorge


On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Drew Hunthausen wrote:

> 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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