Hmmph, if you do music/graphics, etc a mac is good for you.
If you don't mind the price then fine.
If I restarted I'd go mac but I have spent so much and in fact have to
deal so much with windows on a regular basis that I figure if I use the
same os everyone uses I can keep up with things.
For a gamer and general user a mac really isn't that cool.
True, I guess I could wipe it and load windows but no mac has duel
storage drives as far as I know.
Plus most of my software is on windows and its unlikely I will be
doodling with itunes that much.
On the other hand, I do know that mac os updates at least for iphones
etc also include bios updates within the software upgrade.
However, verry little mac stuff do I have.
I guess I'd have to wineskin it but I am used to a windows keyboard.
Macs have voice over and while its good for what it is its the only
reader macs have.
Compaired to my comercial readers on windows and nvda there are at least
3 main ones if you count jaws, and supernova and maybe another one, I
have supernova and nvda.
For all its patched appearance, windows is going to be what I stay with.
Even if I get a server, its either going to be windows, or linux in such
a way that only I will ever need to directly interact with it and users
can handle it via the web or through windows to where they need to go.
While it would be cheaper to go the linux rout my issues are user
interaction, I don't really want or need users to ask me how to interact
withanother os.
None of them know how to interact with macs let alone linux, heck some
of them still struggle to interact with windows itself, and all of my
family forget security and login info.
I allready deal with my share daily of password change requests, and
malware due to them loading more stuff I didn't approve without asking me.
I am certainly not adding a couple oses in when they sometimes struggle
to get a printer to run.
On 12/02/2018 3:38 p.m., Tobias Vinteus wrote:
Hi,
I've been considering getting a Mac for my next computer when this one
makes its spontaneous retirement. The primary reason is that you seem
to be able to get the best of all worlds. In adition to running MacOS,
you can run Windows via Bootcamp. It won't surprise me if you can run
Linux as well. Another reason is music software. I don't know the
current status of MIDI/Digitil Audio stuff on Windows nowadays. The
old version of Sonar Cakewalk/Caketalking is aparantely a little
unstable under Windows 10. I heard of some othe rpackage called
Samplitude, although I don't know much more about it apart from the
name. Music on the Mac, on the other hand, seems to be a totally
different story when it comes to screen reader accessibility, even
though it aparently have had its ups and downs too.
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Damien Garwood wrote:
Hi,
Being totally blind from birth, I've never touched a mouse, and I
hope I would never need to. Mice (mouses? mice? that just sounds
weird!) were unusable by the blind at the time when I was taught
computers, hence the reason I could never really play Swamp or
RailRacer, let alone think about complete system navigation with it.
Not only that but my coordination and spatial awareness isn't all
that great. If I can't use a touchscreen then I've no chance of using
a mouse.
Cheers.
Damien.
-----Original Message----- From: Jude DaShiell
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 12:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] audio game walkthroughs
Windows users just think mac operating system is hard until they start
playing with the mouse then they learn different quickly. Now, mac on
the command line interface, that's a different operating system and
needs study.
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018, Damien Garwood wrote:
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:49:44
From: Damien Garwood <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] audio game walkthroughs
Katie,
That may well be your opinion. I know a lot of people who are Mac
lovers, and they are certainly well advertised. But for those who
are brought up and taught around Windows, learning a whole new
operating system is like learning how to live on another planet. You
may as well lose your legs, get wooden ones and learn how to walk
all over again. I had to sell my Mac because I couldn't figure for
the life of me how to use it.
Cheers.
Damien.
-----Original Message----- From: Katie Epperson via Groups.Io
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 10:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] audio game walkthroughs
That, my friend, is why you should get a Mac. They don?t eat your
stuff most of the time
On Feb 11, 2018, at 2:33 PM, lori duncan <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi I was wondering if someone could send me the link to the
website which
had all the audio game recordings, including the ones from
Asmodean.net? I
had it until my system got wiped by a stupid microsoft update, and
now I
can't remember the webb address.
Thanks from Lori.
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