Phil, I thought, that when adding Windows to a mac, you needed a
Windows screen reader.
earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> 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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