Hey Jessi, welcome!…
I also visited CSun for a few minutes over the weekend and was
surprised and glad to see Macs in places I wasn't expecting! <smile>
Honestly, for myself, I really can't recommend the Mac highly
enough. For someone wanting the most flexibility and functionality in
one system, it's super! I for one, do run Windows for some software
testing / development needs I currently have, but that will be
changing. <smile> I personally prefer the Mac OS however, just the
fact that you can also run Windows or any other current OS for that
matter, is just a terrific / useful thing in my opinion.
As for installing Windows, providing you have a proper Windows
install disc, the worst case scenario I know of is that you'll need
sighted help for a few minutes, like any other Windows install, but if
you use fusion, which is an inexpensive software solution to
virtualize Windows, you can do it without sighted help.
So in a nutshell, I'd personally say it's way easy to install
Windows on your Mac if you want.
As far as TextEdit is concerned, I'd say it's not as comprehensive
as Word, but much more-so than WordPad. I might compare it to the
word processing section of MS Works, such as ver 7. To be honest, I
prefer the control I've seen so far over text attributes in TextEdit
to that of Word. I.E. I'm in the entertainment industry, and will
occasionally design my own promo materials, so I like to have a lot of
flexibility over text styling and color and such, and with tExtEdit, I
have far more control of color, greyscale and various style options
all without sighted help, than I ever had with Word. I haven't
checked out adding transparent photos as backgrounds and such (as I
used to do with MS Works) yet, but that's next on my list. <smile>
One lil neat feature I definitely like, is the ability to quickly
change font size with hot keys. <smile> I personally really dislike
having to remember bunches o' hot keys, much of the time, preferring
menu options and big friendly buttons and such, lol! but in this
case, it's very fast and way cool!… <smile>
anyway, I hope this helps at least somewhat and I wish ya the best
of luck!
Have an awesome day and enjoy the list!…
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Mar 18, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Jessi R wrote:
hey, people!
my name is Jessi and I'm new to the list. I was at CSUN this past
week, where I got to play with voiceover both just generally and
also exclusively with ITunes. I was so impressed with it that I'm
now possibly thinking a bout switching to a mac, and this is kinda
weird for me since I've been a windows user with jaws for about ten
years. but voiceover and the mac really made an impression on me and
I feel like I'm up for a challenge and something new!
I have quite a few probably silly questions though, so I'm hoping
ya'll can give me some answers.
does the mac have plug and play, like windows or would I have to
install a bunch of drivers for my printer/scanner etc?
text edit...is it a fully functional word processor with a good
spell checker, all the attributes you can add to your text in ms-
word, etc? is there a way to tell with voiceover whether text is
single/double spaced, the font, where the indents are, all that
important stuff? I'm a creative writing/journalism major in college,
so having a good, fully functional word processor is very very
important to me.
I heard that voiceover also worked with open office, which
apparently is a freeware wannabe office suite...is that true?
would there be a way for me to save files as .doc or .rtf or
something that other people could open on their pc's?
I heard it's possible to load windows onto the mac and then switch
between the two operating systems...is that hard to do? I thought I
might do that and kinda use both until I got to know voiceover
really well.
is there an accessible OCR program, like open book or k1000, for the
mac?
I think that's all I have for now, but I'm sure I'll be back with
more, lol.
peace and positivity:)
Jessi with guide dog Goldina
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I can't do everything but I can do something,
the something I can do, I must do,
and by the grace of God, I will!
count it all joy, no matter what!
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