Hi,
forgive me, but I did not keep your first message, and the person whose
reply I am using did not keep your name.
Your questions are fine ones, and speaking only for myself, I find no
reason for you to apologize.
Speaking only for myself I feel the generalizations that often goes on
where technology is concerned creates many disadvantages. to me, no
technology is better or worse, it is simply different.
The person defining the value is yourself.
Since you have been using windows for more than 16 years, no doubt your
computer feels like an extension of your hand now, and you desire the same
experience with what you are trying.
While I am very sure others here can guide you in exploring what you are
trying, only you know if it is worth the test.
So I am offering questions for you to consider.
first, are there important tasks for you personally that you can no longer
do in windows?
If yes, can you discover if you can do them now on the mac?
Since you are already comfortable with your iphone, is it possible that
the tasks you can no longer do in windows might work with a combination of
our iphone and another ios device with an added keypad like an ipad?
Most important of all, if there are no tasks for you personally that you
cannot do effortlessly in windows...who says you must change at all?
I must add that windows 10 as I understand it, brings its own new issues.
You may want to be sure you can still do the tasks you are doing now in
windows 10 effortlessly before you change.
I sincerely respect your individual choice...what works for you personally
is critical, since no matter how much wisdom others provide, they do not
live in your head or occupy your body.
Speaking only for myself I have never owned a windows computer, and the
macs in my home presently are far from the most current
My choices work for me best now, I hope you can make the best choices for
yourself regardless of what kind of computer you use. Neither better or
worse, just different.
Cheers,
Kare
Original message:
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?
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