I know that if I buy a mac, I'm getting my money's worth, but look at it from
my point of view.
I live in South Africa, using Rand (ZAR) as currency, making R2500 per month. A
mac minni goes for R6999. More than double my monthly income. And no, apple in
South Africa doesn't offer any financing what so ever.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
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----- Original Message -----
From: carolyn Haas
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:18 PM
Subject: imho: the cost of Mac vs others and their solutionsWas: docuscan is
available
Hi Brandt:
Couldn't disagree with this point of view more. First you're comparing
Apples and raspberries.:)
The Mac is a totally different system, and built to some stringent
specifications. You don't see any Macs for $300 as you do for PC machines. And
there's a good reason. They're worth more.
Secondly: you're buying mainstream technology, and not having to fork out
the price of a second machine just to get it to talk. Voiceover is built into
the system, not as an adaptation of the system.
As such, Vo is intended to give the VI Mac user a more accurate picture of
the screen.
Finally, even at $299, if docuscan works as well as we're hoping it does,
it's still a third of the price of your krzweil or openbook programs.
Sorry, but I believe when you buy a Mac, you get what you pay for.
Carolyn
On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:33 AM, brandt wrote:
Hi there,
Yes, $299 is a fair bit of money, but how many actually went and bought
open Book or something similar back when ever for 3 ore 4 times more? My
biggest complaint is not the cost of software but the ridiculous prices of Mac
computers. I can and probably will go the Hakintosh route just because of that.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
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----- Original Message -----
From: E.J. Zufelt
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now
on the mac app store.
I know nothing at all about this app. But, I suspect that a significant
portion of the cost is related to licencing a OCR SDK
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On 2011-04-28, at 10:05 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
Hello Listers.
DocuScan is now mac compatible and can be found on the mac app store.
Don't get too excited though, unless you have $299.00 to burn on it.
Hope this actually benefits someone.
the Infuriated Matt Campbell.
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