At least you tried it. As you said, though, two weeks may not have been long enough. I had my First Mac for almost a year, during which I tried it off and on while mostly using Windows. A screen reader problem in Windows made me switch to the Mac full-time, and that's what finally did it. I came to that experience knowing the basic commands and how things work, and even then, it took more than two weeks to start to get comfortable. Some people may be able to pick up anew OS in less time, but I'm not one of them. :)
If you ever want to try again, I'd suggest getting the lowest-cost Mac you can, maybe a low-end used Mini. That way, it's far less than $900, and you can keep it as long as you need it. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 6, 2016, at 04:50, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > I wand to thank everyone for the help I have received over the past two > weeks, concerning my Mac Mini. However, I ended up taking it back after all > yesterday, which was my last day to return it. > > To attempt to make a long message not quite so long, I guess I just wasn't > getting it as much as I think I should have been. Every time I would turn it > on, it seemed that I still was having to look up how to do things that I > thought I had already learned, and it definitely was getting more frustrating > than fun, being that I could very easily do those things in Windows, or on my > iPhone. And in the end, what was going to be the real benefit to me? ITunes > allegedly easier to use, and being able to install the OS myself. > > Being that yesterday was going to be my last day, I started out intending to > put in a lot of extra time with it, before the time for my paratransit trip > to return it arrived, which I still thought I was going to cancel. So, I > decided to log into my bank web site, which I had not attempted yet. I > successfully passed the first step in the two-step verification, but then, no > matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to read the security question it > wanted answered. No problem in Windows, or my iPhone, no go on this Mac > mini. I could tell the location for the answer field, I could find what > should have been the question field, it just wouldn't read anything. I typed > in the answer to one of my security questions, which, of course, was the > wrong answer for the question it was asking. I am sure the inability to get > it to read the security question was mine, not the Mac Mini's . So, I closed > Safari, then decided to turn on keyboard help, just to try differing > combinations of keys I had never tried before to see what it would say. I > was trying the function keys, and hit a key at the very right end of them, > and it just shut off. Nothing I did would get VoiceOver talking again. I > tried the three-finger triple tap on the track pad,then the three-finger > double tap which is what it is on my iPhone, turned the track pad commander > off and on, turned the whole computer off and back on, nothing. And this was > my last day. > > I wish I had had 30 days. If I had had, I still don't think it would have > gone back. But I didn't want to be one of those people who never quite got > it, but it was too late to take it back, and I had over 900 dollars invested > in the thing. Even though it would have put me lower in my checking account > than I wanted to be, I should have kept the Windows 10 Lenovo I bought from > Costco, and the Mac Mini, too, knowing one of them was going back. I bought > the Lenovo first, after having talked myself out of buying a Mac, again. > Sometime before Microsoft stops supporting Vista next spring, there will be > another good deal come through Costco. > > I always had wanted to try a Mac, I am glad I did. But it ended up being so > much tedium and frustration to me, as compared to what I already know, with > not all that much seeming benefit in the end. I fully expected not to know > what I was doing for a while, but I thought it would have begun to get easier > by yesterday, which, I guess, it wasn't, even with the two books I have. > > Arnold Schmidt > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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