Re: Uncle! Yosemite it is, then.
My web browsing opinion of Mac and Windows is very mixed and comes down to what, exactly, you're browsing. Things that are more textual, like this forum or any news sites, are easier to read on Windows with the document model, but anything that tries to resemble an actual application works much better on the Mac because the screen reader navigation doesn't change depending on if it's an HTML content or not, and tabbing is more often than not very unreliable.
As far as other things go, both Mac and Windows have good things going for them. I'm definitely in the minority when I say that I prefer the Mac for school work and note taking, and there's 3 reasons for this. First, OS X boots up much faster, wakes up faster, it's just way easier to quickly start working. Second, I still haven't found an Ultrabook that's as good as a macbook with which I could easily go to school and not worry about also bringing a charger. Even with my early 13 pr
o, which doesn't even have the best battery life in the whole lineup, after 7 classes I can come back home and still have around 50% battery left. And that's with Wifi on and occasionally running mail in the background, and a twitter client and connecting to a braille display via bluetooth. Speaking of Braille, what currently makes Windows very inpractical for me is that there is a serious bug with rich text areas and NVDA that if you have a braille display connected and start typing, because of Windows API limitations NVDA has to briefly select the text to obtain formatting information, and if it does this while you type, the text gets mangled. So it's either typing slowly so it doesn't happen, or working with speech which also sucks because I can't work easily by listening to the teacher and my speech with headphones on. The mac also has a systemwide spell checker which automatically recognizes your language which is just awesome. On Windows, spell c
hecking only works in Word, and to make things worse you need to pay $40 or so for every language pack in addition to your base language of office. There's also a few apps made specificaly for editting markdown that include things like instant HTML preview which comes in very useful.
Other Mac apps that I consider to be killer apps include readkit, Skype because it's so much cleaner on OS X, downcast, and iBooks (Qread just converts the whole book to plain text and you also end up not getting notified about links and headings. And with those limitations I don't think it's worth $30). Core audio is a lot better than the Windows sound system, so apps like soundflower, which is a virtual audio cable equivllent, are a lot less resource intensive and have almost no lag. It also allows for apps like audio hijack, which, again, is cool. Plus the whole unix thing that was discussed here before.
Now, Windows has some good apps as well. Games for a start, audio
and non-audio, sound editting, and especially music sequencing is much more accessible (it's only too bad that the Windows audio stack sucks soooooo much compared to core audio), and the one app I miss from OS X the most is probably Total Commander. While Finder is better compared to explorer, it's very basic compared to TC and its power user features. There are also times I miss some NVDA addons from VoiceOver, especially the OCR and instant translate, as well as the beeping progress bars. You don't realise how useful that is until you have to use a screen reader that lacks this feature.
I'll admit I haven't played much with the terminal in 10.2, but with 10.1 I haven't really noticed much of an improvement. Generally, I don't mind having to just read my output manually but having auto-reading would sometimes be quite useful
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