[mac4theblind] Re: Mac or windows?
- From: Kim Kilpatrick <kimjkilpatrick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:33:17 -0400
Ben,
I am very new to the mac.
Sound similar to you in that I had an ancient pc still running windows xp. I
have only had the mac for a few weeks but I am pretty happy with it.
The learning curve is a bit steep at times.
I have done e-mail and web things, itunes which I find much easier than the pc.
Also have edited some docs and spread sheets in pages and numbers.
I did buy the apps for pages and numbers although text edit seems to work well
too.
I know you can open word documents in pages but not sure about text edit.
I have not done any audio editing or things like that so can't speak to that
part of it.
I got a mac mini as it was the cheapest and I already had an old monitor and
speakers to use.
I did set it up myself and did install mountain lion independently too.
Not sure how much melp I am.
Kim
On 2012-07-27, at 9:22 AM, Benjamin Blatter <benjaminblatter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi to all
>
> Well, I was so looking forward to get finally a macbook pro this year. Since
> I want to ditch my seven year old PC with Win XP for something new and really
> powerful. Since I would have to learn anyway anew when getting Win 7 I
> thought I'd could switch to mac as well.
> I went to an apple store in my area in Switzerland and had a look at the new
> macbook pro Retina. Man, I've never seen such a thin notebook!
> My joy was big when my BAUM Suvervario braille display was working with USB
> right out of the box. Bluetooth didn't work for some reason.
>
> Because the apple store was loudly and crowded, I didn't have really a chance
> to understand voice over and check all the things I wanted in no hurry.
> I got a recommendation to talk to a blind musician with apple experience.
> So I hit him up and told him what I'd like to do: Daily stuff like mail,
> internet, writing documents like in microsoft word. And special things like
> doing smaller projects like audio editing, producing my songs with MIDI or
> audio, I have cakewalk sonar running on windows for that. I hope I don't
> sound like a snop. But for once I really want to have a really powerful
> notebook with an SSD, lots of ram and whatever is important.
>
> So I told this guy all about that. He produces his music with pro tools and
> logic. But he wasn't as excited about that as I thought. He told me that a
> year ago he'd recommend me going for a mac. Now however apple would end it's
> support for professional things like logic about next year and go more into
> the consumer area. Therefore he told me I should stay with windows, buy a new
> machine with windows 7 and get a new jaws. If I wanted to produce music I
> should use Cubase.
>
> I was a bit confused about that. So I asked him about being independent. As
> far I know voice over provides speech and braille during the installation of
> the OS, windows doesnt. He told me that voice over is providing accessibility
> mostly in the user area. If you want to get deeper it will become difficult.
> Voice over would be still be in childen's shoes.
>
> I asked him about clean systems. Windows software leaves many footprints in
> the registry and other places on your hard drive. He told me that the mac
> system wouldn't be better considering that and changing a small detail might
> have sometimes a very big impact on the whole system, so he had to reinstall
> his system more than once because of this.
>
> Well, I know I have to make this decision for myself eventually.
> But I'd like to ask you about your opinion on that. As far i understand you
> really are working with these machines and probably don't even use windows at
> all anymore.
> My plan was to get the new retina macbook pro and configure it up to the
> limit. And buying win 7 in addition to run it with bootcamp.
>
> A main concern of mine is how to read and edit DOC and DOCX files I regularly
> get from people I work with.
> And would be cubase accessible by voice over? Or which program should I use
> for producing music?
>
> I know, this is a bit longwinded and you probably can't answer all my
> questions. but thanks for trying anyway.
> Ben
>
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