[Electronics-talk] mac vs PC

[Steve P. Deeley]

How much is a Mac laptop.  I bought my wife a Ipad for Christmas.  Can a 
blind person use an Ipad?
stee
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From: "louie" <louiemost at wavecable.com>
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] mac vs PC


> About two weeks to get around using voice over. I am still learning things 
> about the operating system.
> On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Drew Hunthausen wrote:
>
>> How long would you say it took you before youfelt really comfortable with
>> the Mac.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Priscilla 
>> Garces
>> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 10:58 AM
>> To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>> 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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