If you can wait another 6 months, Mac 9S X 10.7 (Lion) will probably be out by then and it will come free with your new Mac. This will have even more VoiceOver goodies installed. Of course, if you do not want to wait that long, you can always upgrade your OS when Lion comes out, the beauty of the Mac is even blind users can install an OS without sighted assistance.
I much prefer surfing on my Mac as I can whizz around web pages much quicker then I can on Windows with JAWS. Plus VoiceOver is more stable. Web browsing, Email and Skype and iTunes work very well with VoiceOver on the Mac. My only gripe is that Office for Mac is not accessible, that really would be the cherry on the cake for me. And it would be nice if some music packages were as accessible as Reaper and Sonar are on Windows, but the Mac is steadily coming along in those areas. Chris On 4 Dec 2010, at 07:15, Isaac Obie wrote: > Hi Rick, > Spreadsheets? You'd best go with a Macbook pro or an imac! Imacs are powerful > and can handle what you're doing...... > Isaac > ----- Original Message ----- From: "richard watson" > <richard.watson15...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 3:03 PM > Subject: mac vs jfw > > >> Good afternoon, >> my name is rick watson. Currently I have a 7 year old hp pc running >> windows xp media center and jaws for windows. I also have an iphone >> 3gs and love it! >> Because I realize that it is going to come time to replace the pc I am >> considering a mac. >> most uses include media, word processing, email, spreadsheets and web. >> anyone like to give me the pros and cons other than the obvious of price. >> thanks >> rick >> >> -- >> 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.
