[nabs-l] iphone or mac?

Mon May 14 00:57:38 UTC 2012

You bring up good points. i am in high school. if i may inquire, what is your major? because i've never heard ( of many of the things you mentioned.  if it is something techy, i unerstand why a computer is necessary. 

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On May 13, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Tony Olivero <anthony at olivero.us> wrote:

> Sophie,
> 
> I'm not sure where you are in your educational career (highschool,
> college, post grad, etc.), but based on the things I've had to do at
> one time or another I would be asking yourself if you able to, on the
> Apex:
> 
> * Add headings, font styles, footnotes, running headers and footers,
> page numbers, tables of contents, and properly formatted bibliography
> pages to a research paper;
> * Access research databases including full-text PDF documents (even
> those that are missing OCRed text);
> * Use a spreadsheet or other statistical analysis package to
> manipulate and analyze data;
> * Access web pages using modern technologies such as AJAX (submitting
> forms, and retrieving data without reloading the page), ARIA (adding
> extra accessibility information to make web based applications
> accessible), and dynamic HTML (showing and hiding sections of a web
> page, again without reloading it); and
> * Access any applications that may be required by your chosen course of study.
> 
> Not knowing what you are planning to do I can't really know for sure
> if the Apex is the only solution that will work, but it has been my
> experience that it is still necessary to have a computer even with a
> notetaking solution to be truely competetive.
> 
> Tony
> 
> On 5/13/12, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tony, could you please clarify what you mean when you say
>> intensive productivity? I'm afraid I don't understand exactly
>> what you're trying to say. I have found my apex able to handle
>> all reading, writing, and editing assignments I've had in the
>> past.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Tony Olivero <anthony at olivero.us
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> Date sent: Sat, 12 May 2012 23:27:39 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] iphone or mac?
>> 
>> Sophie,
>> 
>> In a way, your decision is almost comparing apples to oranges.
>> Your
>> iPhone and Apex are both  portable computing solutions, where a
>> computer (whether you go with a mac or a Windows based system) is
>> a
>> much more powerful package. If you are a student, you are likely
>> to
>> want a platform capable of intensive word processing, data
>> calculation, and access to research databases, just to name a few
>> possibilities. While portable computing platforms have come a
>> long way
>> in the past ten years, they still are not a replacement for the
>> power
>> and functionality you gain with a computer.
>> 
>> It is and will likely remain my belief for some time, necessary
>> to
>> have access to a desktop or notebook computer and use the
>> portable
>> solution (iPhone/BraillNote in your case) for note taking,
>> e-mail, and
>> other things that you need to do while mobile, and continue to
>> use a
>> computer for intensive productivity tasks.
>> 
>> Tony
>> 
>> On 5/11/12, Valerie Gibson <valandkayla at gmail.com> wrote:
>> depends on what you're after. my first thought was terminal, or
>> an ssh
>> client.
>> apart from that, a larger storage space, and it's faster.
>> I guess if you lumped the bn and iPhone into one ball, you'd
>> have almost the
>> same features of the mac, but maybe i'm forgetting something.
>> oh, not sure if the bn can do ftp either.
>> On May 11, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Sophie Trist wrote:
>> 
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> I currently use a braillenote apex and an iPhone 4S running IOS
>> 5.1. I am
>> debating the issue of whether I should get a Mac, and your input
>> would be
>> very helpufl in this decision, because I know a lot of y'all use
>> a Mac
>> with Voiceover. My main question is, what abilities does a Mac
>> have that
>> an iPhone and braillenote do not have?
>> Yours,
>> Sophie
>> 
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