The mac is very stable. One of the nice things about it is you can set up your mac and have it speak. When installing windows in a virtual machine the other day, it took an hour and a half to almost 2 hours to install, and with no speech or sighted help around, I just had to hope and pray that it was doing what it was supposed to do.
Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 On Apr 1, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net> wrote: > I find the mac to be very stable, certainly far less problems than with > windows. It's not perfect, no platform is, but I have 3 macs and have no > desire to switch back to a PC. > Original message: > >> Hi Everyone, > >> As I said previously, I am thinking about getting a Mac and the main reason >> is that I am tired of the increasing instability of the PC environment. My >> first question is, is this really different on a Mac? > >> I am using JAWS 15 with Windows 8. Both are not all that stable. I have been >> a JAWS user for 17 years and I have noticed a definite progressive increase >> in instability with the last few releases. JAWS crashes frequently and, even >> if it doesn't crash, it often stops talking when errors occur with other >> applications. Then, there's Windows 8. I don't mind the Windows 8 interface >> but several times per week, I will have a problem that requires me to >> restart my computer. I did not have that nearly as much with Windows 7. >> Also, it isn't unusual for me to install a program which will, either >> directly or through add ins, make Windows and/or JAWS more unstable. I then >> have to decide rather the additional functionality is worth the increased >> instability. I'm just tired of all the crashes and reboots and having to use >> three or four screen readers because I have to run one when another one >> crashes. > >> By contrast, my iPhone and iPad, while not perfect, are certainly more >> stable. VoiceOver seldom just stops working. Of course, every single app is >> not accessible and they do not all work correctly but any problems with an >> app are almost always confined only to that app. When an app crashes, it >> usually does not also cause VoiceOver or the device to crash. Is this also >> true of the Mac? > >> I have certainly used technology enough to know that none of it is perfect. >> However, I would like something that is better than the PC, when it comes to >> stability. Over all, in your experience, is the Mac more stable? > >> Thanks, > >> Scott Duck -- >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
