Well it was only $35 canadian for me to upgrade from leopard to snowleopard. It was so cheep that one of the companies I work for gave out about 6 or 8 of them to customers who purchased macs in that year, and paid me to go out and do most of the upgrades. Which as you know is a joke. Drink coffee and listen to the cd hum in the drive basicly, smiles.
Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2010-12-04, at 6:59 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi! > > Definitely agree with this. In fact, I hear that the Mac OS X 10.7, Lion, is > going to be a sort of "business" addition. Of course, I'm sure we all > remember the "truly amazing feature", but it sounds slightly illogical that > VoiceOver wouldn't handle tables properly in documents eventually. > > While VoiceOver actually does handle tables just fine, VoiceOver does not > announce them. That seems to be the big issue, and it is nice to know what > cells you're working with. > > If you are going to buy a Mac, though, you could go ahead and do it before > Lion is released. I have to wonder if Apple will do what they did with Snow > Leopard and lower the price for some Mac owners who purchased a Mac within a > certain period. > > Regards, > Nic > GoogleTalk: [email protected] > Facebook > Twitter > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: [email protected] > Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 > AIM: cincinster > > On Dec 4, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> If you can wait another 6 months, Mac 9S X 10.7 (Lion) will probably be out >> by then and it will come free with your new Mac. This will have even more >> VoiceOver goodies installed. Of course, if you do not want to wait that >> long, you can always upgrade your OS when Lion comes out, the beauty of the >> Mac is even blind users can install an OS without sighted assistance. >> >> I much prefer surfing on my Mac as I can whizz around web pages much quicker >> then I can on Windows with JAWS. Plus VoiceOver is more stable. >> >> Web browsing, Email and Skype and iTunes work very well with VoiceOver on >> the Mac. My only gripe is that Office for Mac is not accessible, that >> really would be the cherry on the cake for me. And it would be nice if some >> music packages were as accessible as Reaper and Sonar are on Windows, but >> the Mac is steadily coming along in those areas. >> >> Chris >> On 4 Dec 2010, at 07:15, Isaac Obie wrote: >> >>> Hi Rick, >>> Spreadsheets? You'd best go with a Macbook pro or an imac! Imacs are >>> powerful and can handle what you're doing...... >>> Isaac >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "richard watson" >>> <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 3:03 PM >>> Subject: mac vs jfw >>> >>> >>>> Good afternoon, >>>> my name is rick watson. Currently I have a 7 year old hp pc running >>>> windows xp media center and jaws for windows. I also have an iphone >>>> 3gs and love it! >>>> Because I realize that it is going to come time to replace the pc I am >>>> considering a mac. >>>> most uses include media, word processing, email, spreadsheets and web. >>>> anyone like to give me the pros and cons other than the obvious of price. >>>> thanks >>>> rick >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
