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:
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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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