Not to change your mind about buying a Windows box because I have a
total of 5 newly purchased Windows laptops but if you get a Mac it is
easy to learn, set up and configure. If missing e-mails is your only
main concern then give yourself two hours and call me and I will get
you through it.In two hours I can just about guarantee you will be up
and running with mail and basic navigation. I have learned more than I
have ever did about a Mac in 3 months than in 10 years on Windows
machines. It is easy and fun once you wrap your head around it. I
would buy a copy of Windows and with the money you save buy more RAM,
faster processor or a bigger hard drive. This is coming from a Windows
fan of 15 or so years.
On Dec 8, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Hamit Campos wrote:
Hello Scot. It's Hamit again. I just asked because what with people
talking
of XP running faster on a MAC then a PC I was curious as to this
applying to
Vista. The only reason that I asked about being able to run Windows
on the
MAC ruining the fun of having a MAC is because the way I see it is
that
would be like turning the MAC into a PC in a sense. So what would
be the
point of getting one if you are going to do that? Plus one if not
the main
reason I'd like a MAC is because I want to use the CD burning
program Sam
Britton talked about on the blind cool tech pod cast called Dragon
Burn. It
sounded really cool because of the ability you have to record live
on a CD.
Encase you wandered which MAC I will get because I've made up my
mind and I
will get one, I'm going to get an iMAC. They are so hot. I really
liked
them. Scot Howell convinced me to get one in a way with his 2 part
pod cast
of a MAC too. I'll get one after I get a Vista PC though. You see I
have no
clue as how to use a MAC accept for a few things and I can't afford
and
don't want to miss out on any E-mails while learning one. So that's
why a
Vista PC is my first goal. I have 2 PC's by the way and so I'll
replace one
of these 2 junky old PC's with an iMAC. That's all, hope to hear
from you
soon.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott
Chesworth
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 2:39 AM
To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
Xby
theblind
Subject: Re: Mac with Windows OS and Jaws
Hamit - couldn't tell you about Vista and Jaws 9 because I have
neither.
from everything I've read, Jaws 9 should be fine, Vista is still
buggy under
virtualisation and the graphics support seems lacking to look at, so
no idea
if it'd play nice with screen readers yet. If you try this, let us
know how
you get on and go in to it not expecting miricals.
As for Windows ruining the mac, many many purists think so. I've
seen people
who own everything from mini's through to macbook pros and use
windows on
them almost exclusively. Their argument is that it's just like
having a
windows box with cooler hardware. That to me feels like they're
missing out,
but what I'm trying to say is that it's different strokes for
different
folks. Personally, I find the ability to run both OS's at a snap
quite cool,
and every time I restart back in to mac os I get a feeling of relief
haha.
Find your own balance that makes it easiest for you to do whatever
you need
your mac to do, and ignore the purests.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hamit Campos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac
OS Xby
theblind'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:07 AM
Subject: RE: Mac with Windows OS and Jaws
What about Vista and Jaws 9? I don't remember that being brought up.
I'd be
curious to know just how that works. Just as a quick side question.
Don't
you guys think that putting Windows on a MAC kind of ruins the fun
of having
one?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Keen
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:12 PM
To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by
theblind
Subject: Re: Mac with Windows OS and Jaws
Oo! Oo!
Who delurked me?
Blinking in bright light and gulping rather nervously.
Um, right, well I have - sort of.
What I mean is my son has set my mac book up so I can dual boot, if I
do nothing it goes in to, spit, windows. If I hit option key it goes
to, sigh, leopard and voice over.
The sad thing is I know nothing other than I can at last free myself
from
the dark lord of Seattle and have the tools to defeat the dark arts.
Here's a thing though my son is a software architect who uses a mac
to do
his job and has been encouraging me to dump microsludge for a
while now. He works for a mapping solutions company here in the U.K.
called multimap.com and has been active in web accessibility on my and
other blind computer users behalf for some years now. He is very
involved in web 2.0 here in the U.K. but when I can blackmail him in
to
doing something for his dear old Dad he is frightfully good about it,
currently he is engaged in reverse engineering a tool for reading
talking
newspapers with his pearl script skills and hopefully I will be able
to make
this available to other users of T.N.A.U.K publications in the U.K.
soon.
Oh dear I do seem to have gone on rather a lot, forgive a garrulous
old fool
who really prefers lurking in the background.
Cheers
G
From glorious Devon, England.
a
On 7 Dec 2007, at 19:24, L. T. Reed wrote:
Has anybody installed Windows XP and Jaws on their Macx and
successfully used them. Any problems?
Ted Reed.
Gordon Keen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's it for now.
