Here's my take as a recent switcher: Email: There simply isn't a mail client that comes close to Apple Mail for responsiveness, stability or features. If you are a heavy email user, Mac is by far your best bet now.
Media: iTunes is great on the Mac, but VLC media player is now pretty useful as well. In general I find things are more likely to just play on the Mac than on the PC, and I like the rewind, fast forward etc features in the built in player in Safari. Word Processing: Unless you use styled word documents or need to use word tables, even Text Edit, the built in word processor, will do much of what you want, and if not, Open Office Writer is great for creating documents, if not for reading them, and there are other free word processors that have many features. I haven't bought i\work at all. Spreadsheets: Open Office Calc is free and would be easier for you to learn to use than a modern version of Excel as it still uses menus, unlike the other! Internet: Pros and cons here, it really depends how you use the internet. In general, I can do the vast majority of things I could in JAWS. Many tasks are much easier, some a little more keystroke intensive or at least finger intensive, but there are plenty of sites that are vastly superior in Safari, particularly anything with dynamic content, something Windows users seem to moan about a lot, but Mac users don't, because it works so much better for us! This was actually one of my reasons for switching! There is no equivalent that is quite as easy to use as Webvisum, but I find audio Captchas work a lot better for me on Mac than they did on PC! Cheers Dave On 3 Dec 2010, at 20:03, richard watson wrote: > 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.
