Arnold, to let you know from my angle I started out as a windows user on the PC side and in about 2008 migrated to the Mac. For me I’ve been able to move all my functions away from windows. Most things I hear that people have issue with are OCR reading or other very specialized adaptive software like braille translation. Also I know some industries like Insurance have mainly windows based tools. So professionally you may not have a choice. I just passed on a job that required the use of windows by the end user. I have no desire to fight the virtual desktop battle just to do something I can do better and faster for my needs anyway with a Mac. So that’s the long way of saying I bet you could switch over entirely especially if you’re already to think laterally when you hit an issue like your example of using a KNFB reader. Also remember if you do have the desire to run windows you can do so on your Mac with VM Fusion while OS X is running or using bootcamp you could boot in to windows if you needed to. The fusion method is the one I find most preferable. So lucky for you with a good Mac you have the best of both worlds available in one box.
Good luck. > On Jul 9, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > Your original message brings up an interesting point, in that you said you > might spend half hour, , to an hour in windows. Being that I have now > ordered my Mac mini, I am not going back this time, what type things simply > work better in windows than on the mac? Oftentimes, it is that the user > simply does not know how to do something well when they say something doesn't > work as well, so I am more interested in the answer from the more experienced > users. I know, for example, that Openbook will not be available to me on the > Mac, I don't know how well DocuScan, from System Access works, and it sounds > as if scanning and reading, by importing everything into a word processing > app is about more trouble than it is worth. No problem, I will use KNFB > reader on my iPhone. But what else does windows do better? Thanks for any > opinions. > > 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 > <mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > <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 > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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.
