Re: My experience with the Mac

2012-03-07 Thread Brian Albriton
My rule fo thumb is determine the task and what best gets it done. On 3/7/12, matthew Dyer wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using a mac now for over 2 years and only use windows when I > really need to like if I have to work whare it is required for example. I > do all of my personal stuff on my

Re: My experience with the Mac

2012-03-07 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi all, I have been using a mac now for over 2 years and only use windows when I really need to like if I have to work whare it is required for example. I do all of my personal stuff on my mac and it is all I have rite now. I find that it just got too expencive to keep my screen reader update

Re: My experience with the Mac

2012-03-07 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
I fully agree with you there. The only reason I have to deal with windows is for diagnostics and repairs for clients, that's the way I make a bit of decent cash when work comes in. So I use windows XP Pro for most of it with a hush hush version of jaws and I'm not recommending it at all. it's t

Re: My experience with the Mac

2012-03-07 Thread Eugenia Firth
hi Rahul. I don't know if you guys are going to agree with me on this or not, but even though there are is System Access out there, for the most part, the accessibility of Windows is being handled by Freedom Scientific and G. W. Micro. Someone posted a survey result on this list once that said

Re: My experience with the Mac

2012-03-07 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
Hi Gigi, re office 2010, yes, there are issues with JAWS 13. the way to resolve this is to first, enable ribbon support in jaws, after that it's a bit of tweaking in jaws preferences to make it behave the way it needs to. Office 2010 has become bogged down with unnecessary junk. Microsoft has st

Re: My experience with the Mac

2012-03-07 Thread Claus Thøgersen
Den 07-03-2012 20:56, Eugenia Firth skrev: Hi guys. I have this friend who recently decided not to switch to a Mac. She decided to get a Windows desktop, and she has Jaws 13 in it. So be@ this post is Mac related since my question for her is not, let me relay my experiences this weekend trying

Re: My experience with the Mac

2012-03-07 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys. I have this friend who recently decided not to switch to a Mac. She decided to get a Windows desktop, and she has Jaws 13 in it. So be@ this post is Mac related since my question for her is not, let me relay my experiences this weekend trying to help her set something in Excel. I had

Re: My experience with the Mac

2012-03-07 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
yep, the windows side is torture. I'm refurbing a server to sell on. turning it into a professional music system for recording engineers. installing windows 7 64 bit ultimate edition and as it's a dell poweredge, it's a Dell OEM disk. deciding on upgrades at present. windows can have a total n

Re: My experience with the Mac

2012-03-07 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I don't have answers to all of your questions, but I have both Utorrent and adobe digital editions on my mac and they work great. As far as your wifi, have you been doing your updates for mac OS? If not, then I suggest you do them and see if that fixes your problem. That should help with