Hi,
I'm holding out on my intel MBA as long as I can however, I'm vaguely aware that there are some aspects of voiceover that have been improved on M1 macs. Am I correct in thinking there is an OCR aspect now built in when on apple silicon?
If someone would be so kind to outline the improvements, or indeed, the failures of M1 macs compared with the intel ones, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks
Ollie
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would love this information as well
I have a 2011 Macbook pro running mac OS high sierra and windows 10 under bootcamp. The computer got a 2 TB solid state drive a couple of years ago, so I'm really hoping it will function for at least a few more years. I use email exclusively on the mac side of things, but for audio games and most other tasks, I still prefer windows. I know that at least for now, it isn't possible to set up bootcamp on a mac, so I'm hoping that might change before I have to replace this computer. I know that virtual machines are a thing, but that's far more complicated than my skill set, and from what I've heard, the virtual machine software isn't particularly VO friendly. Bottom line, I'll be watching this thread with interest in hopes that someday, bootcamp will return on the m1 macs.
Obviously your m1 is going…
Obviously your m1 is going to have much better performance. I jumped from a 2015 MacBook Pro with an i7 and 16 gb ram to the new m1 MacBook Air, and while you won't notice much difference in Voiceover performance, everything else is a ton faster. I do a lot of audio work for my online radio station, and everything exports twice if not three times as fast. Even though this machine only has 8 gb ram, since it is all integrated, it is just as fast as an intel machine with 16 gb.
Battery life is another huge plus. I charge maybe once a week.
Your only disadvantage is the lack of bootcamp support. I have programs for the station that I absolutely have to be able to run, so what I did was go out and buy a cheap Dell two in one. It isn't blazing fast or fancy, but that's what I'm using for anything Windows at the moment. Being that I only have 8 gb ram, I don't have any desire to run a virtual machine on this thing, and plus when run-ing a vm, you have messed up key assignments that you can't really do much about without creating conflicts on the Mac side of things. I look forward to having bootcamp back, so as to not have to carry around two computers. But for now, it is what it is, and I still absolutely love my Mac.
Obviously your m1 is going… not only
And Apple tries making limitations for the alternative instalations.
The company doesn't desire the user to touch internals as he likes.
So... if it's still possible to install, for example, Windows on the new mac you have to try very much.
Maybe the system will work better and faster on the new CPU.
And the optimization is better.
The apple developers know CPU architecture better.
But it was just my amateur opinion.
Cheers!
On-Board OCR Functionality
Hello. The OCR functionality is indeed built in now, and in my opinion this is one of the things that makes VoiceOver such a good screen reader. In addition to pressing VO-Shift-L on any image, I have decided to keep the VO utility setting on. I'm talking about VoiceOver Recognition, which I'm told is built into the newer iPhones. But additionally, I think the audio output on these new Macs is better. I've mainly noticed this with speech, but I've yet to really notice a difference with other sources of audio output. On Friday evening my tutor and I are going to start transferring my entire music library from my older Mac to this one, so that I can just access it in the cloud. Once the transfer is complete, I hope to experience the enhanced audio myself. I like the Magic Keyboard too.