hi, sorry its taken me till now to reply, had a busy weekend.
ok, may be someone will be able to tell me if the laptop will be charged or if
it'll need charging, its a bmacbook pro
will i need sighted help in the first instance
is there a start menu like in windows
thanks again to all for the help
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Macrae
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 4:59 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: mac laptops
As others have now said, VO is pre-installed on MacBooks as it is on all
other Apple products. I moved to Mac in 2011 so not sure how up-to-date I am
on how it works out of the box but I think you may be offered the opportunity
of both going through a quick start VO tutorial and also of turning VO off.
Decisions you then have to make include whether you’re going to do as I did and
just run with the native Mac OS and apps or whether you’re going to put
something like MS Office on the mac. Personally I’ve always regarded that as
rather counter productive not least because office is said not to work
particularly happily in the Mac environment. You also have to decide whether
you’re going to keep a PC running while you learn the Mac. I made the decision
to go cold turkey and quite soon found the Mac to be more intuitive and less
hassle. The other thing to say is to make use of good resources such as
Podcasts like the basic ones provided by David Woodbridge at Vision Australia
which were invaluable to me and the slightly less entry level ones done last
year by David Griffiths. Also use the Mac experience which exists on lists like
this and never think that any question is thick.
On 21 Apr 2016, at 14:20, Spring Flower <spring.flower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
vid Griffiths
hi
how accessible are mac laptps, i assume that they'll come with voice over
already loaded as is the case with the iphones etc
Griffiths.do they come with usb slots etc
i have stuff on external drives from a windows laptop, woud it be hard
worki to get this stuff on a mac.
one of the things is my itunes library which i've inported from cd in to
itunes via a windows 7 sony vaio, how would i get5 that in to itunes on a mac
thanks and sorry for being so thick
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