Sara; The Mac talks right out of the box as it were. When you start it for the first time, it will ask you if you'd like speech, and bring you through a VoiceOver tutorial which will show you all you need to know to get started working with VO and to complete the installation of the OS.
As far as crashing goes, your friends were right. The Mac is *MUCH* more stable than Windows, by a long shot! lol!
When apps do crash, VO can / does read the info, and as Shaun said, if VO itself crashes, it comes up again within a few seconds at most.
Hope this helps and have a lovely evening!… Smiles, Cara :) On Apr 20, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Sara wrote:
Hi people. I don't have a mac yet and am learning all I can about them before I try one. What happens when you boot it up? Does it talk right away or do you need a pair of eyes to walk you through all the stuff new computers do like asking for your name, admin password, printer, network settings, etc?Another question, what happens when a mac crashes? I'm told by mac users that they don't crash much, but if and when they do, does voiceover read the info about which program crashed or does the whole thing just stall like it sometimes does in Windows depending on how bad the crash is?Thanks for your help with all my total newbie questions. smile Sara
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