Just a question: will you be moving to Leopard? I've tried it for the first
time today, and there is a noticable difference in feel. VoiceOver in Tiger
was just sluggish. I used Tiger on both intel and ppc (I think the ppc was a
g4 and itel was g5).
The Leopard I tried today was on an intel mac mini, and it was much
snappier. Oh, and it was running from an external hard drive with no ill
effects.
-- Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mac-discuss" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:46 AM
Subject: Difference in using voiceover between ppc and intel
Hi all.
I might have the option of buying an Intel mac mini. It isn't the fastest
available model or fully loaded (only combo drive and 1gb memory) but I
don't forsee being able to buy a fully-loaded brand new machine in the
near future. What I want to know is whether people think I will see enough
difference in voiceover and operation of the mac (mostly I'm talking about
time loading apps and busy signals) to make it worth it. my present
machine is a 1.66GHZ ppc and the machine I could buy is a 1.83GHZ intel. I
do see some definite pluses just in the fact that the sound system is
somewhat better on the Intel and there are more usb ports, but I'd like to
know whether I'd see enough difference in day-to-day operation to make it
worth buying the Intel. I'm also thinking that as time goes on more things
will be doable on the Intel that aren't on the ppc. I did some research
and read some reviews of general Mac users who used a ppc mini and then
moved to an intel and these reviews were overwhelmingly positive as to
having moved to the Intel machine, but I'd like feedback specifically from
users who are blind. I'd really appreciate feedback, especially from
people who have used both a ppc mini and an intel one.
Tia.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
