[bookport] Re: Mac.
- From: "Stan Robinson" <stanrob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:15:17 +1100
Hi Jeanette,
If you would be kind enough to send me your e-mail address, then it will be
possible for me to give you my loss of sight case history.
My dob is 1923.
Stan Robinson,
Mildura,
Victoria,
Australia.
From: Jeanette Beal
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 4:36 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Mac.
STAN OMG YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! I just played with the mac leopard system in the
Apple store and I am sold. I can't purchase it til after February because I'm
still paying off a pathetic new Dell laptop I didn't want. I would be
interested in hearing how you work with it - feel free to include me in any
off-list ruminations. And let me know how the dual platform works - I assume
you'll run other a-t software like kurzweil or jaws or zoomtext or dragonspeak
or something, eh?
I'm so jealous. Jealous! JEALOUS!
Too you may want to get an external windows-based keyboard to make navigation
easier. I have one since it was lying around my office. When I set folks up
with macs with dual-boot (for non-VI issues) I set them up with an external
windows keyboard. It helps cut down the degree of irritation. But I never
give macs to blind/vi folks so I really want to know how it works for you.
Plus that means then I really *can* be a mac convert.
And before I stop drooling ,let me know how you like the voice over. I found
it slightly more intuitive but I haven't read a full review and I haven't had
time or chance to really play with it myself. I haven't been able to use a mac
thus far because of the wretched voiceover in Tiger (though some
less-blind-than-me claim it's serviceable) and leopard seems *so* much better.
I'd be particularly keen on knowing how it works with excel and access.
- Jeanette
On Nov 17, 2007 12:37 AM, Stan Robinson <stanrob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Great News! My new dual platform iMac arrives on Tuesday of next week. The
PC I purchased at the beginning of August 07 was to enable me to gain some
knowledge of the Windows XP and Vista operating systems. The need for this
knowledge is so I can operate a BP and use the programme, DNS.
The four months old PC will be a Christmas present to my Grandson.
I would like to take this opportunity to say thank to all of those list
members, who gave freely of their time and help in getting me started with the
Windows OS. I had not a clue four months ago, in regards to Windows.
23 years in front of a Mac keyboard was of little help when trying to
decipher the Windows phraseology versus the Macs.
Again, Thank You.
I would like to make contact with any list member who is a Macintosh
convert.
Stan Robinson.
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