I've got a couple of things to say here.
The Mac is over all less expensive than the pc. Since when did
states have so much money as to ignore this fact?
What will make the Mac more suseptable to attack is windows, not the
chip.
Employability is in the eye of the potential employer and if you
stick to your three majors, I see nothing standing in your way. So
What, you get a job that requires a pc, you use a pc. We're talking
about getting you outfitted for your education and none of us has a
chrystal ball beyond that not even MR. Clark.
Now, this bit about compatability I do not understand. I run a Mac
on my network along with pcs. We swap and view files across the
network written in word and text edit all the time. Word is just
another flavor like chocolate. If you like it, you eat it.
Actually, vo has been upgraded several times this year. Everytime
the os is upgraded which has happened at least three times including
just yesterday to my knowledge. Yep, vo is not a screen reader.
On the issue of suport, What does Mr. Clark do for a living? Why
could he not support the mac?
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Justin Harford wrote:
Hi guys
Could someone here do me a favor. I just got done with my meeting at
the department of rehabilitation, and they have flatly denied my
request for a mac. their points:
1. my converting to Mac would make me less employable since most of
employment revolves around windows.
2. Mac won't be able to exchange information with windows since it
uses different programs than microsoft office. They really asserted
that Mac wouldn't
be useful because Voice Over does not work with microsoft word.
3. Mr. Clark asserted that last year, Freedom Scientific made 2
upgrades to Jaws, and that in 6 months, Voice Over has made none.
4. They think that depending on my major (presently to be either
Law, History, or Spanish), graduate programs may require special
software only usable
with windows. They brought up statistics as an example. If I were
to go into administration as a vocation, I would probably have to
take statistics classes.
5. Mr. Clark asserted that while at present, mac is less suseptible
to viruses, that this will change with the introduction of its intel
processors.
6. I think a primary argument was that there wouldn't be as much
support for mac as for windows should the system need repair since 90
percent of blind
people use the latter.
Of course, I was able to answer to all 6 of the above, but you see,
the organization of my department is different from others. It is
not a simple one on one counselor student relationship. Since my
counselor feels that she has insuficient knowledge in the world of
technology, she has hired a separate person, Steve Clark, to handle
that. She places her undying trust in Mr. Clark, and blindly follows
his advice. I think that their main point (aside from number 6) is
that they think that there will be programs that only run on windows
XP with JAWS, and that I will be out of luck with my Mac should I
need one of those for a certain class. Okay, so here is my favor.
If I can prove that Mac may support XP too, then I might have a
stronger argument. So, is there anyone on this list who has tried
JAWS with XP on their Mac? If not, could someone give it a try. I
couldn't immagine that you would have to buy the program, just
download the 40 minute demo off the net, and try that. Thanks for
any help I may receive.
