Hi Hank, What are the things that you want to do with your mat? What prompted you to purchase the Mac in the first place? What are you dissatisfied with regarding windows? I think all of those things which depend on you are the real questions that need answering regarding whether a Mac is a better choice for you than windows. Regarding iTunes, I have not used it with windows ever. I know there are folks who do use it with windows. I have a friend who has windows and never used a Mac, and he hates iTunes with a passion. I have used iTunes on the Mac. It seems usable, but iTunes is certainly not my favorite program either. I think, depending on your answers to the questions at the start of this message, it may well be a good thing for you to turn your Mac back in and just keep on using windows. You could of course run Windows on your Mac. But why? I bought a Mac many years ago when snow leopard was the current version of OS X. I now have a different Mac mini. Honestly, if I had it to do again, I am not sure that I would buy a Mac. Progress has not been what I had hoped it would be on the Mac with respect to things like reading PDF files and scanning large volumes of material and embossing braille, all of which I still do on windows. On the other hand, I have a very large library in iTunes on my Mac that I ripped from CDs, most of which are now gone. I have stereos with airport expresses and an Apple TV and airplay. So in that regard, I guess I'm stuck in the Mac ecosystem. But if I had it to do again, I'm not sure I would have gone that route. So, again, why did you buy a Mac? What do you want to get out of the Mac? And what don't you like about windows?
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 26, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > Please forgive the long message to follow. Just delete it if you don't want > to read it. > > I have been messing around with my new Mac Mini over the weekend. I have the > two books, Everything You Need To Know To Use The Mac With El Capitan And > Voice Over, by Janet Ingber, and Mastering The Macintosh With Voice Over, by > Tim Sniffen.I thoroughly expected not to know what I am doing for a while, at > the moment, that is an understatement. I have it set up, thanks to Mr. > Sniffen's book, Ms. Ingber seems to assume one will have sighted help to do > that. I have been with windows since 2000, and Jaws 3.5. I still have Jaws, > having bought, last December, the SMA through version 19. I have to figure > out, by July 5, whether I want to take the Mac back to the Apple store to get > my money back. So far, it seems like a bunch of incredible tedium to get > things done, as compared to Windows. The track pad helps, it makes it a > little more like my iPhone 6, that I love. Getting things done on the iPhone > never seemed to have nearly the tedium as does the Mac,even when my iPhone 5 > was new to me. For example, having to interact with things, rather than > just hitting enter when I want to do something, or press two or three keys at > the same time to get VoiceOver to do something, I have no doubt that I can > learn it, but My nagging question during my 14 days is going to be: why? > What is so much better about this than Windows? Is the Mac really better, or > just different? Is, for example, iTunes really easier to use? What little I > have investigated, I am not yet convinced that it is. Already having Jaws, I > don't have the issue of having to buy a windows screen reader, and NVDA is > making it unnecessary even for a new Windows user to do so. I paid over 50 > percent more for this Mac Mini than I could have bought a Windows 10 > computer. I wish I had 30 days, rather than 14, to figure this out. The > time is ticking. What is so much better about this than Windows, which I > already know how to use? > > Arnold Schmidt > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
