On 12/7/10, David Taylor <davetay...@tafn.org.uk> wrote: > 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. > > Good afternoon, has anyone used their mac to produce hard copy braille. I currently use duxbury on my windows xp pc. the old dos version... and through testing I found that it won't work under windows 7. so this is something else I'll have to factor into my decision. thanks rick
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