My very old laptop running on XP and Internet Explorer 8 is almost dying therefore I want to switch on to an Apple product. Due to my total blindness I rely only on voiceover/screenreader. I don't know the difference between Mac Bookair or Mac Bookair Pro, etc, etc. I will be very grateful if someone tell me which Apple laptop is really suitable for a totally blind person. Thank you for your help.
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Well if the pens on what you really want to do with it because all the new Apple laptops all the internal parts are soldered in the computer so it depends on what you would want to do with it really And also I don't know how big your current machine is also
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Hi there.
Well, what would you be using the laptop for?
I have a macbook air, the battery life is amazing!
The pro is a very nice machine as well. It has a faster processor. I would stay away from the macbook, it has only one port to charge and connect all your devices.
Good luck. with whatever decision you make.
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hi. to answer one part of the question that was asked, what's the difference. macbook pro, is more like a standard laptop, with a normal mobile processor, memory, and using SSD storage for speed. these machines will be good for heavy work, such as video or image editing, gaming, if you can find any good ones, *laughs* and things like that. the macbook air, is basically ultrabook classed, in fact it was the first such device to make it big. it's got a much slower processor, same sort of ram, though far as I am aware, it's still limited to 8 gb ram, which sucks for the cost, and also uses SSD technology for storage and speed. these machines are more along the lines of a portable PC, designed more for basic stuff. web browsing, emails, light word processing, music playback, movie playback perhaps, some light gaming, and things like that. so it will really depend on what you do on a day to day basis, as to which of these you go for. on the other hand, the macbook, the new things with a single port, yeah, I'd mostly keep well away from that. they keyboard is horrible, and the performance is nothing to be happy about either.
and still expensive, even though it's not as good as the air.
Same Operating system.
Hi Fariba,
If you are new to the world of Mac's and all of the many variants it may help you to know that, regardless of model, they all run on exactly the same operating system, use the same key commands and have the same version of Voice Over built right in.
So, from a purely accessibility point of view no particular model will be better or worse for a totally Blind user.
You are free, instead, to make your choice on personal preference and budget. To help with that decision, I recall an excellent explainer was posted to this site, comparing all current Pro and Air formats - even up to the latest Macbook release. If you have trouble searching for it, let me know and I will find and post the link for you.
HTH
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Yes I agree with the comments above I personally have a 15 inch non-retina MacBook Pro late 2012 model and my specs are a 750 Spinning Disk Dr. with the SuperDrive in it I seven processor chip with the I bridge processor set and I have eight gigs of ram but like we have said above it depends on what you're getting at four
hanks a million for your kind
hanks a million for your kind replies. Regarding to the replies I've received from you, I've made my decision to purchase the Macbook Air. Once more thank you very much for your help.
accessibility is the same on all the macs.
hello there exactly you have made a good decision to purchase the mac book air. i've got the air also. the battery life is fantastic.
hope this helps
Good on You
Good on you for settling on a MacBook Air. That's what I have and I love it. A sister of mine has one too, and we are VoiceOver users. I have seen the MacBook Pro as my neighbor across the hall recently got one of those. I haven't played around with his though. The fact that you can just go up to any Mac computer nowadays and turn on accessibility without fiddling with extra things is a real winner in my books. I wasn't aware that the accessibility features in Mac computers work exactly the same across the board, so thank you to the person who pointed that out. I also agree that the battery life in the MacBook Air is excellent. It's a good thing too, because mine sure gets a daily work-out!