Hi, How many legs did your Windows conputer come with in the firstplace. *Alex checks and none of his computers have legs* See, it is easier to stop them running away this way, ... :).
Anyways, I have loved OS X since 2005, and would not use my Windows VM probably ever except for miner website testing at work, but even us don't support JAWS, etc. at owrk. Regards, Alex, On 10-Jun-09, at 12:16 AM, Jenny Kennedy wrote: > > I don't know who would be counted in the "young" group and who in the > "old. I first heard rumblings that the Mac was accessable in late > 2007.I was 30 then and am 32 now, got my Mac when I was 31. So not > sure where I fit, young or old or whatever... > > My story was this. My windows computer was on it's last legs and we > knew that I had to get a new one. At first we thought about getting a > low cost windows laptop. Then they came out with vista. My partner > Larry at first didn't want to drop so much money all at once on a > computer. But I sat down and did a lot of research. Listened to > screenless switchers, joined this list, listened to everything ACB > radio had to say found other podcasts and after that I priced out how > much would it be to get a laptop with windows and a copy of JAWS. > Then I priced out the ongoing costs, upgrades to the OS and JAWS and > other things. I gathered everything I learned and presented it to > Larry. I think after all was said and done that the Mac, while > expensive at first more or less payed for it's self in the money I > saved as it had a built in screen access and screen enlargement, plus > the most I'd think of paying for os/A/T upgrades with the mac at tops > would be 150 bucks compaired to havint to spend 200 a year ontop of > the nearly 1000 starting price for a windows screen reader. Just > after we took the choice to get the Mac I got a chance to try vista as > I barrowed my stepdaughter's new vista computer. I tried timed demos > of JAWS and W.E. and the free screen readers and was so grumpy with > the whole thing. Larry got to see first hand what a pain in the neck > it all was and I even got him to listen to some of the mac demos. He > said we got the mac because it has what I need and seems to be a > better computer for me. I haven't crashed it yet and aside from a few > structure problems with the macbook, like little shards of it coming > apart where the lid shuts and the recent shorting out of the option > key I have had no trouble with it. I think people can take the choice > if they find themselves where I was. In need of a computer and free > and open to anything. I'm a stay at home mom so don't have to worry > about my mac interfacing with other computers I like my choice and am > glad I took the time to learn all I could rather than just following a > mass of people one way or the other. > > Jenny > blueskyes9112...@gmail.com > Olathe, Ks USA > > On 6/10/09, Mark Baxter <markbaxte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This is typical NFB. Prey on an already oppressed popularion with >> scare tactics about what *COULD* go wrong and how helpless they'd be >> unless trhey do things the NFB way. It's why I have very little to >> do >> with organized groups of blind people. Don't feel bad; I also scoff >> at organized religion in favor of individual spirituality, and hate >> Christmas because of shopping mobs and humans in packs. Don't beieve >> what the NFB tells you; they're just anothe organization with another >> marketing angle. >> >> >> Mark BurningHawk >> >> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >> MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >> My home page: >> http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
