Hi Caroline, Bert, and everyone else,
About 5 minutes ago I got SoaS to run on my MacBook. : ) I followed Bert's
fine instructions again, adding one tiny detail (if Virtual Manager doesn't
open, click on the little yellow folder at the right of the pull down bar...if
it doesn't open, double click again).
All I tried was Speak. It worked fine with English and Spanish. It seems like
the mouth doesn't open as wide and it talksa little faster, but maybe that is
my imagination. I have to refinish a 9 drawer dresser now, so I will have to
wait until eveningto play more with SoaS on the MacBook. BTW...how do I add
activities? (Greedy I guess).
I will take my MacBook, 5 XOs, and the nice SoaS stick Walter sent, to the
InfoTech event tomorrow. Someone there
will probably have a PC we can use the stick on.
I have been following the discussion about the length of time schools would
continue to use PowerPC Macs.In my experience schools keep machines until lots
of their keys fall off or they totally die. Then if they are thrown out, some
enterprising teacher will go dumpster diving and rescue them to set up a
computer lab in their classroom. I know of at least one instance of this
actually happening!
So, yes, IMHO it is worth it to spend the time to get to run on the PowerPC.
Caryl
P.S. In Latin America they call USB sticks "pens." That means SoaS there would
be SoaP!
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