Thanks for all the response I have gotten to my question. So everyone will
know, at this point, it is much less likely that I will take it back than
that I will. And I am very willing to admit that I don't really know what I
am doing yet, that was very much expected by me.
I have seen several people write to say that I can change something so I
don't have to do all that interacting. First, why do you suppose Apple set
it up this way in the first place? Is there something about having to
interact with things that, when I get use to it, I will find it to be much
better this way? If not, tell me how to fix it so that, at least
temporarily, I don't have to do it.
Yes, I do have a track pad. I am glad to have it, it is somewhat similar to
my iPhone, and when I get everything together, it will be the closest I will
have become to being able to use a mouse,as well as keyboard commands. When
I am use to everything, I expect I will use both keyboard and track pad,
getting the best of both worlds.
Arnold Schmidt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Arrigo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Why Is The Mac Better Than Windows?
Here are my reasons whyI think the mac is better and why I left the
Windows world, at least for home use. First, an excellent screen reader is
built in to the operating system. I think you said you were using a mac
mini, you can use the track pad if you have one, I use the numpad
commander on my mac mini, it makes navigating easier. You can change a
voiceover setting so you don't have to interact with most things if it's
too confusing for you. You can reinstall your operating system, even with
a new hard drive without requiring sighted help. I think the mac provides
the best experience when browsing the internet. This is not an
accessibility feature, but the mac operating system is much cleaner than
windows. The applications are self contained, you don't have a central
registry controlling everything, or shared files that need to be installed
all over the place. Finally, Apple has maintained the same interface over
several versions of the operating system, they don't feel a need to change
it with each version the way Microsoft changes Windows. If it ain't broke,
don't fix it.
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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