You do, John, for right now. Apparently some key strokes are now talking
but I'm not planning on upgrading jaws any longer. I only have a couple of
programs that are still windows based.
Phil.
----- Original Message -----
From: "john schwery" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: Why go to a Mac?
> Phil, I thought, that when adding Windows to a mac, you needed a Windows
> screen reader.
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> earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
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>>John,
>>
>>I checked it out but figured I needed a new computer anyway so if I was
>>going to learn a new system, I might as well go for the Mac because of all
>>it's built in features for the blind.
>>
>>Phil.
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>>
>>
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>> > On May 3, 2015, at 5:33 PM, john schwery <[log in to unmask]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Phil, for Windows on the Mac, if you don't want to buy JFW
>> upgrades, I hear that NVDA is getting better all of the time and it is
>> free, so that may be an option for you.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>> >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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>> >> Sharon,
>> >>
>> >> That's a good question and I've been asking myself that same question
>> >> for
>> >> many months prior to buying one.
>> >>
>> >> First, my old computer is about 12 years old and is having a lot
>> of lockup problems. I've replaced the power supply several times and
>> other old parts
>> >> as well. I was wondering what I was going to do about buying the new
>> >> upgrades to jaws, too. Sandy had gotten a mac air, which is a
>> netbook type
>> >> of computer, and she has really been learning how to use it over the
>> >> past
>> >> year. She uses it to pay all our bills online and orders her
>> groceries from
>> >> WalMart using her mac air, too, and of course for all her
>> emailing. A book came out by the National Braille
>> >> Press on how to use various mac computers and phones so that helped me
>> >> decide for a mac, too. Prices run from 500 dollars on up. In fact, I
>> >> bought the MacMini that has 1 TB of storage and the half a TB costs
>> >> 500
>> >> dollars or less, if they are on sale or if you buy a rebuilt and
>> >> certified
>> >> machine, you can get them for even less. Plus, I like being
>> able to sync automatically my iPhone and my
>> >> computer. I can even make and receive calls on the Macmini. I also
>> >> like
>> >> the idea of being able to give voice commands to the Mac which I
>> >> haven't
>> >> learned to do as of yet. There is a trackpad which allows you
>> to touch the
>> >> pad as if it were a touch screen and thus move around the screen and
>> >> do
>> >> various commands on the computer. The mac also can run on wifi
>> so one less
>> >> thing to connect to a router. The mouse can be used in various
>> ways by a blind user, too, but the track pad is especially designed for
>> screen manipulation through gestures and thus making it faster than
>> sighted people with a mouse. The mouse is wire free as well. Macs are
>> much more difficult to hack and they rarely get a virus due to their
>> standard Apple encryption. Additional the voice over personality called
>> Alex is so much easier for me to hear using my hearing aids. Software
>> updates are free and the same is true for all operating systems. I
>> likely could come up with more, because I considered it for many months
>> before buying one, but I will be formatting the mac as both a windows
>> machine and a mac machine so you end up with two computers in one. There
>> is a format procedure which installs windows and then allows access to
>> the mac through a virtual computer exchange. This means, at any given
>> time, you can switch, on the fly, from mac to windows and back again
>> without rebooting the computer. I have a few ham radio programs that has
>> nothing made for the macs yet so things like that I can still run via
>> windows. So, Sharon, those are a few reason why I bought the MacMini.
>> I'm having fun learning how to use the thing and it will be nice to
>> eventually format the mac into a pair of computers so I can move my old
>> computer elsewhere or get rid of it all together. Oh, yes, I got this
>> mac due to the voice recognition software. I'm hoping it works well
>> enough so I can dictate to screen my articles and books but I haven't
>> gotten that far as of yet.
>> >>
>> >> Phil.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Hooley"
>> >> <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 6:52 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: Working
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Yea, I'm glad you're set up with your Mac! But I'm curious. Why
>> >> would
>> >> anybody want to buy a Mac when it costs more than a Windows system?
>> >>
>> >> Curious Sharon H.
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