[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT Computer Hell

Gary, I love my husband's Mac mini - it works like a champ. You can run everything on it that you run on a windows machine when you set it up to have a windows environment as well as a mac environment. It's a fantastic little machine.
Also, if you want a new PC, Dell will still make a PC for you and load it with XP, at least they would as of two weeks ago. They aren't advertising that, but my sister bought one just two weeks ago direct from Dell set up that way. Dell changes stuff so constantly, though, that something that's available one day may not be the next. 

Judy s.



Gary Petraccaro wrote:
What do I use for OCR? What model in particular, too, please? I've looked at Macs, but found anything but the Mac Mini's out of my price range. The local store doesn't stock any of these, so I'd be buying without getting a look at what I was getting. Local store is Best Buy. Other options are Sam's Club and Wallmart. 
    ----- Original Message -----
    *From:* Cindy Rosenthal <mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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    Might I suggest a Mac? smile

    Cindy

    --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

     > I hoped they could fix things several months ago.
     > This is a pesky network glitch which doesn't seem to
     > be easily solvable, though I'll bet that once it is
     > solved we will say how obvious it was.  I actually
     > did start looking for a computer out of desperation
     > yesterday.  Every blasted machine I saw at Best Buy
     > had Vista 64 on it.  They said they would charge me
     > list for Vista 32 and $139 worth of labor to
     > install.  Called Sam's Club with same results.
     > Obviously I was just doing this to have something to
     > do more than anything else.  I did find a computer
     > which appealed to me as a piece of equipment.  If it
     > had had wireless, I'd have bought it just to feel
     > better; an Asus Essentio CS5111 PC.  The 5110 has
     > wireless, but I can find nobody selling it at all.
     > We'll see what tomorrow brings by way of a solution.
     >
     >   ----- Original Message -----
     >   From: Monica Willyard
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     >   Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:15 PM
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     >
     >
     >   Gary, I'm sorry you're having so much trouble with
     > your computers. For
     >   some people it's an inconvenience. For a blind
     > person, it's like
     >   losing our eyes for awhile. If I were transported
     > back in time where
     >   computers with speech didn't exist, I would have a
     > hard time adjusting
     >   to the lack of independence and inability to read
     > freely. I hope they
     >   can fix your computer issues with a minimum of
     > downtime for you.
     >
     >   --
     >   Monica Willyard
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