I use both mac and windows, infact I run windows 10 as a bootcamp partition on my mac book air,
I’m still a more windows power user than mac but that is only because I’m using windows products at work and home in the way of servers, I’m really only a new user of the mac but it’s growing on me in a big way, One of the things I find best about the mac is the hardware is stable and devices are specific to the device from apple. This also to me makes bootcamp that much more stable when running windows as you get the specific apple device drivers from the manufacturer and therefore things run a lot more reliably and stable. Unlike a mix and match windows machine. Itunes on the mac is just different to windows but I still use it on both. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brandon A. Olivares Sent: Monday, 27 June 2016 1:31 PM To: “Mac Visionaries“ <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Why Is The Mac Better Than Windows? Honestly, I think the Mac is far better than Windows. First, it’s really not that complicated once you get used to it. Have you tried the item chooser? That might help you navigate more easily. Just press control-option-I. Navigate to the item you want, or type in the first few letters of the name of that item, and press enter on it, and you’ll be directed there. I taught my wife how to use the Mac from day 1, and she likes it a lot better than Windows. She refuses to ever use Windows again at this point, because the Mac has been so much easier. So here are the ways I think it’s better: 1. It’s more stable. I don’t know how JAWS is now, but I remember the days of just about anything making it crash. With the Mac, I know I’ll always have accessibility. I never had to get sighted assistance because the screen reader crashes and I can’t get it to come back on. 2. Apple cares about accessibility. I think it’s notable that JAWS, or any other major screen reader, doesn’t come from Microsoft itself. Microsoft is not beholden whatsoever to make Windows accessible. The screen reader developers have to keep up with Windows development, and it’s not guaranteed that everything will be accessible. Every native application on the Mac is accessible out of the box, and most 3rd party applications are accessible as well, if they follow the guidelines Apple has in place. 3. It’s more durable. I use my computer pretty much every waking moment, and it has lasted a lot longer than any Windows computer I have had, including the so-called top of the line brands. 4. It’s easy. I know it might seem complicated at first, but it’s really not, as I said. I can do just about anything on my MacBook Air. 5. Works with iPhone natively. I love the hand-off feature that Mac/iPhone has now. You have no idea how often I use this feature. Have an app open on the Mac, and open that same app on the iPhone. Anyway, those are just a few of the reasons. I hope it helps, though. Let me know if you have questions. Brandon On Jun 26, 2016, at 9:17 PM, Arnold Schmidt <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Please forgive the long message to follow. Just delete it if you don't want to read it. I have been messing around with my new Mac Mini over the weekend. I have the two books, Everything You Need To Know To Use The Mac With El Capitan And Voice Over, by Janet Ingber, and Mastering The Macintosh With Voice Over, by Tim Sniffen.I thoroughly expected not to know what I am doing for a while, at the moment, that is an understatement. I have it set up, thanks to Mr. Sniffen's book, Ms. Ingber seems to assume one will have sighted help to do that. I have been with windows since 2000, and Jaws 3.5. I still have Jaws, having bought, last December, the SMA through version 19. I have to figure out, by July 5, whether I want to take the Mac back to the Apple store to get my money back. So far, it seems like a bunch of incredible tedium to get things done, as compared to Windows. The track pad helps, it makes it a little more like my iPhone 6, that I love. Getting things done on the iPhone never seemed to have nearly the tedium as does the Mac,even when my iPhone 5 was new to me. For example, having to interact with things, rather than just hitting enter when I want to do something, or press two or three keys at the same time to get VoiceOver to do something, I have no doubt that I can learn it, but My nagging question during my 14 days is going to be: why? What is so much better about this than Windows? Is the Mac really better, or just different? Is, for example, iTunes really easier to use? What little I have investigated, I am not yet convinced that it is. Already having Jaws, I don't have the issue of having to buy a windows screen reader, and NVDA is making it unnecessary even for a new Windows user to do so. I paid over 50 percent more for this Mac Mini than I could have bought a Windows 10 computer. I wish I had 30 days, rather than 14, to figure this out. The time is ticking. What is so much better about this than Windows, which I already know how to use? Arnold Schmidt -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. 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