I'm a Technology manager and the bottom line is that while Apple has a great toolset and can be adapted for most business uses, the windows suite of programs is more widely in business today. I know we had a pilot using the Mac laptop but we used the Microsoft Office tools for presentation, E-mail, Word Processing, Spreadsheets and project planning. You can buy these programs that run on a Mac but they're not accessible yet. I expect the gap to shrink more and more over the next few years but blind folks need to be able to use the tools that are being used by their fellow workers.
I think you should learn to work with both windows and Mac machines to give you the best chance to grow. It wouldn't hurt to know more about linux as well. The more experience we have the better our opportunities to contribute. Kev On Oct 11, 2010, at 5:44 PM, EWOUD wrote: > it should better be a debate. > there is No reason why windows would be favoured above apple. > Apple has the possibilaty to run windows on its machine, therefor its a > great alternative. > windows cannot do that, and the price windows pc with screanreader is also no > good, so Apple has to be mentioned when it comes to choices! > Ewoud > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarai Bucciarelli" > <bucc7...@bellsouth.net> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:36 PM > Subject: Re: please don't turn this in to a debate, just need information > > > Hi: > Good for you! I'm a Mac user as well, and I too feel rehab agencies need to > present both options, and let the consumer make up their own mind. The only > program I'd ever need to use on the Windows side of things is Kurzweil. > On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:41 AM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > >> I am a very knew Mac user and feel that our state rehab departments are >> favoring the windows based machines over the mac machines. Yes, our states >> have all the money to give there blind consumers all this adaptive >> technology while in school. However, after school, blind individuals >> struggle to keep their equipment up to date. I am trying to write a letter >> about the mac for blind consumers instead of jaws on a windows pc. I wanted >> to make the case that the states should not be so geared to window based >> machines for there blind consumers. I just don't no enough about OCR >> solutions for the Mac like we have Kurzweil1000 for windows. Also I am not >> sure about the braille translation programs for the macs as we have mega >> dots or Duxbury for the windows computers. Also, we use victor streams, >> eclipse reders and for our textbooks so if there is a Mac equivalent, I >> wanted to know about it. I am trying to convince our rehab department that >> they need to show both options to their consumers. I plan on submitting my >> letter at the end of the week to are rehab department. Thank you, Heather >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
