MMM! My Mac Mini
Thanks to @Sebby, @arqmeister, @wanderer, and @aaron77, who all posted helpful tips for my curious and naive mind, getting started on the mini was almost flawless. I say almost because it wasn't flawless. What it has been, is an experience I've been waiting on for quite some time.
Sebby was almost entirely responsible for my having dropped nearly $2000 on a mac, and I say almost entirely, because the rest of the entirety was kind of divided between myself and MS. I proudly claim the responsibility for previous mentioned action, as I am now the proud user of a mini that sits proudly on my proud desk sounding loud and proud on my sound system. Voiceover, great! Facetime, good. Messages, lovely. Safari, hmmm, kinda feels clunky, but it'll work. ITunes, still wrapping my head around it.&nbs
p; Nightowl, fun! Text edit, reasonable. Contacts, just, [[wow]]! Ok ok, so I wasn't able to set someone's birthday on it, but I think that's just a bug with the app more than myself, or maybe it is myself.
But where it really gets cool is, familiarity! Voiceover doesn't feel different on my mac, on my iPhone, on my watch or on my TV. Info I care about is always with me... Even my mac alerts me to phonecalls now. if I turn this thing off, which I've only done once, it's ready to go within about 10 seconds. If I want interactive screen reader support, it's only a couple of keystrokes away. If I need a sandwitch... Just making sure you're still paying attention.
And yet, my mac usage has raised a few questions, which I've no doubt do have answers even if I don't necessarily like them. I realize that some of these may sound as if I'm hoping to accomplish things on my m
ac as I would on a windows PC, but the fact is that I'm willing to settle for alternatives wherever necessary.
1. What is the best way to monitor an audio input?
2. Closely related to 1, is there a stereoMix equivalent?
3. How, for the life of me, can I get rid of that useless and rather distracting habit voiceover has of pitching down a voice when it encounters bits of information it believes are important to me? I hate entering an edit field and hearing the label in a voice that sounds completely and entirely different from the one I know I'm supposed to be listening to. Is this a bug, or else a joke? I've plundered the voiceover utility for the past couple of days trying to figure this issue out, but have come up with nothing.
4. is it just me, or does Apple have a way of introducing things that are absolutely amusing even if they are useless? I mean, what the blazes is up with that duplicate featu
re? I only discovered it accidentally, but still can't think of a use for it, since one already has copy and paste at their fingertips as well.
5. What's up with Donalt Trump?
Overall, while this is not my final take on such a system, I'm pleased. I was right when I stated that it wasn't going to make me as happy as XP once did, but OSX has certainly liberated me in ways I myself could never have imagined from a windows world that no longer deserves my technological attention and effort. A little less than a month in, with only the past two weeks truly serving as the meat and potatos of my entire experience with El Capitan, but just as many have pointed out, I'm getting faster, becoming more confident, and surely learning what I need to know to thrive as I did with windows.
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