Kristeen If you have a Pc and a screen reader you know how to use, together with some apps you need to use, then there is no advantage at all in replaceing your PC with a Mac.
There is nothing you can do on a Mac that you can't do on a PC. Addedd to this is the time it will take to learn a new operating system, new screen reader and new apps. Plus, the very real possibility that even if you get a Mac, yu will still need to run Windows in some way because you need to use a Windows app such as Word or Excell. If you know Windows and your screen reader and the apps you use, why on earth would you buy an expensive mac computer with an operating system you don't know, a screen reader that is limited and no access to the productivity applications the vast majority of people in work rely on? The only reason is that you have the time and money to want to experiment and that is completely OK with me. Jonathan On 11/02/2012, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, the current minis no longer have this, I think apple removed it too > soon, should have waited another year or 2 > On Feb 9, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Kristeen Hughes wrote: > >> If I'm remembering correctly, the minis that are out there now do not have >> a cd/dvd drive. Is this true? I bought my mimi a little over a year ago >> and so it has one. I'm thinking about iMacs. Do any of you have one? >> >> Kristeen >> >> On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: >> >>> You could get a mac mini, these are priced decently and you could install >>> windows 7 on it, I would not get another pc, that's for sure. >>> On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Kristeen Hughes wrote: >>> >>>> I'm looking for some honest advice here. My desktop PC is dead. It's >>>> four years old, so I'm not going to try and put a new hard drive in it >>>> or fix memory or whatever is wrong. It doesn't even pretend to boot. >>>> There are some apps that I still use that are PC. I haven't found >>>> anything Apple to replace them with as yet. Given that, would I be >>>> better off to still get an Apple and put a Windows 7 OS on it to run >>>> these? Or, would it be better to go with another PC? I want to do what >>>> makes the most sense, but I do love the accessibility of the Apple and >>>> if I could bring it home and do all the setup myself, it'd sure be cool. >>>> >>>> If I went with an Apple, would it be best to get an iMac? 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