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.