Hi there. I'm thinking about either the imac or the mac book. I don't need the most expensive model, since I won't be doing any graphics editing. I'm planning on visiting the apple store later today, so I just might be coming home with a nice new Mac. ----- Original Message ----- From: "vashaun jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:39 AM Subject: Re: my intro
> Hi Mike nice of you to join the list. Yes, the Mac is great and what > you learned as far as navigation goes is used across the Mac platform > so you don't have allot of key combos to learn. What type of Mac are > you looking at getting? > On May 3, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > > Hello everyone, my name is Mike, I live in Saint Louis and I just > > joijned > > the list. I'm currently a windows user, and am planning on > > purchasing a mac, > > hopefully some time this week. I work in tech support for software > > that > > works with windows, so hopefully my tech skills will come in handy for > > learning the mac. Where I work, they have some macs, and I was able > > to play > > with voice over using Tiger, and I know it's even better with > > Leopard. I > > think it's great that the mac operating system has a screen reader > > built in, > > and I wish windows would do the same. I don't think blind people > > should have > > to pay hundreds of dollars to gain access to their computer. With the > > limited extra time I had at work, I was able to navigate the menus, > > and > > explore the system preferences section of the mac, this came to me > > really > > easily, so hopefully I'm off to a good start. I look forward to > > learning > > from others on this list. > > > > > > >
