Hi, Mary Anne. I took a look at scanning technology on the Mac recently when considering which laptop to buy. I really like so many things about the Mac, but Bookshare work was my sticking point. I spoke with nine blind Mac users and ended up with more questions than answers. I learned that there is a version of OmniPage for the Mac and a version of FineReader as well. I was told that VoiceOver will work with OmniPage with a few quirks. There is no program comparable to Kurzweil for a Mac. I have also been told that Microsoft Office doesn't work with speech on a Mac. For those reasons, I chose not to buy one since a lot of my time is spent scanning and validating. If you have sight, these issues won't be a problem for you. If you use speech, you would need to find a program that can handle rtf files and that will notify you of the presence of page breaks. I think we have a couple of Mac users who volunteer for Bookshare. I don't know if they use their Mac for their volunteering though since they have multiple computers. The volunteer I did speak with told me that I would need to deal with some formatting quirks. I really want to use a Mac and see what it's like. I couldn't justify spending the money on one with so many unknowns since I'd have to buy a totally new scanning package and such. I don't intend to sound negative here. I can only describe my experiences. I hope you'll be able to prove me wrong and make me regret buying a Dell. (grin) Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker