Hi Anne We, Lynne and I, are absolutely ages behind in Mail. So please excuse the belated response. Hopefully after this week when my contract expires, I will be more hands-on again.
I totally empathise with you with the stress factor and the problems with InfoVox. I had a similar experience when we thought our MBP was dead, and Lynne bought me a MacBook air with a 2.4 GHZ processor (I think), it's a 13-inch model with 256GB SSD It takes about 5 seconds to boot from power-on. Yes, I really do know how you feel. As I say, something similar happened to me about 2 months ago. Happily, I now have the MacBook Pro working again, but our main machine is now the MacBook Air. It really is amazingly fast. I was fortunate because the bloke in the Apple Store let me have one of the new generation 2013 machines which, really speaking, weren't announced until this month. But they've been in stock since about mid April. I just cannot get over how fast this machine is. As I say it booths and has everything running, including Infovox, in just a touch over 5 seconds from cold boot. I have a Promise Thunderbolt RAID array as well which just worked. No messing around and I tell you that drive plugged into this machine beats absolutely anything I've ever seen in my life in terms of speed of access etc. Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia: +61 38 8205930 Vic. Australia +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> Skype: <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> ------------------------------ On 7 Jun 2013, at 19:17, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Last Monday, a day before the arrival of two students for a three-day > VoiceOver course, one of our two MacBook Pros that we use for training gave > up the ghost. It was running hotter and hotter so I shut it down and let it > cool off. I then zapped the PRam, but it never booted again. That machine has > always been temperamental, but it seems to have suffered a fatal stroke this > time! > > What to do with two students, neither of whom could bring a machine of their > own? > > Well, my MacBook Air that I've been very happy with is two years old, so we > decided I could have a new one as an early birthday present. > > My husband bought me a lovely new 11-inch MBA with 256 GB SSD and 8 GB of RAM > (just what I wanted!). He brought it home from Paris, along with our two > students. > > It was after dinner before I could even unpack my new toy. I booted it up and > set the language and keyboard, then imported my data from my Time Machine > backup. > > That's when disaster struck! This new machine told me that I could now start > enjoying using Lion! But my password didn't work! I couldn't access my new > computer and get Mountain Lion. Apparently, because my new MBA is a higher > spec machine than most people buy, it had been in the Louvres Applestore > since just before Mountain Lion started shipping with new computers. > > Luckily, we always keep a USB key with the latest OS on it. So I shut down my > new MBA and did a clean install of Mountain Lion. I then had to import all my > data once again. > > The next problem was the Infovox iVox voices that started nagging me. I set > everything to use Fred, but as long as the Infovox iVox voices were on my > system, I couldn't do a thing with VoiceOver. > > I'm lucky to have a sighted husband who knows an awful lot about Macs. So he > was able to remove the voices from my system. > > We then had to set up my old MBA in French and with a new user name for one > of the students. > > This was Archie's job first thing on Wednesday morning while I ran through > some basics with our students. > > Well, the students have now left and they said they were delighted with the > course. But we're absolutely exhausted! And I can now start looking at > tweaking my new toy and putting the Infovox iVox voices back on it under less > stressful circumstances. It really is an incredibly fast machine! <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
