I'm thinking about getting a MBA in the near-ish future. I'd like to be able to use Dragon Naturally Speaking, the most recent version. I'd like to hear from folks who may be using this program on their MBA either booted into Windows and/or using an emulator in OSX. And, do you use a special mic?
View 4 Repliesis anyone successfully using DragonDictate on MacBook Pro? I have a desktop iMac and DragonDictate works well enough on that but it's not working on my older MacBook (which I need for my office). I'm wondering if I upgrade to a new MacBook Pro if this voice recognition software will work well on it. I've seen other forums where users have had many problems pairing the 2.
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I recently purchased a 17 inch MBP with 3.06ghz processor and 7200rpm 500gb HD ticked and fancied playing Dragon Age as i'm giving my old desktop computer away.I installed windows 7 Ultimate (lost my XP CD), cranked the settings on Dragon Age to max, turned x4 AA on and set about from where I left off.After about 30 minutes of playing I noticed my MBP was getting quite hot - not enough to burn me (though getting there) - just enough to cause concern and make me want to stop. I've had the temperature of this up to 90 degrees while doing other things and never felt it this hot before or had the fans going this much. I expected it to heat up and the fans to go somewhat crazy but not this much.
I'd like this laptop to last me at least a good few years so i'm wondering if daily prolong use of doing this could cause damage to the laptop?
I have set a keyboard shortcut cmd opt ctrl + S to start speaking highlighted text which works fine, however I have set numerous keyboard shortcuts but nothing I do can stop the text speaking, even quitting the application or relaunching the finder. In the end I have to log out to stop it speaking.
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View 8 Replies View Relatedjust after I thought I'd got rid of all of my Apple notebooks I had to get a new Macbook Pro. And equally sadly, just as I've rid myself my the last of my utterly crud Airs I find that I'm going to have to lug the MBP around much more often that I thought - which means that if at all possible, I will need something considerably more portable. So it was with a sense of resignation that I found myself hovering over the 'buy' button on a 1.8/SSD Gen 2. But then I thought "**** it, I've got far better machines than anything Apple can crank out, why can't I hackintosh these instead?" - namely my Sony Z's, forthcoming TT's, existing TZ's and SZ's as well as the Voodoo Envy133 that I finally caved on and ordered. And I'd love to hear of anyone installing a rock solid Hackintosh install with no functional issues on any of those machines - because from what I've read, there seem to be problems.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if there is anyway to pipe the speaking utility to an audio file? i.e getting an audio file of the spoken text.
View 2 Replies View Relatedfor some random reason my computer decided to randomly started speaking everything i click, type, search, everything any one know how to stop this?Never-mind! Somehow i hit the key-bind that i didn't know i had, sorry for the post.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThe speech suddenly started speaking all commands and page info. I do not know what is wrong or how to turn it off. As I type this it speaks each letter and key that I pressImac G5 Mac osx 10.4.11 Safari 4.0.4
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a late 2007 Macbook Pro and I am looking to upgrade to a new computer.
I would like the new computer to be able to play Dragon Age on a high setting.
I am no expert with graphic cards and specs so I would like some advice on whether the latest top-end 17" Macbook Pro can handle this game. The below is the recommended specs for dragon age:
Dragon Age RECOMMENDED SPECS
* CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
* RAM: 4 GB (Vista) or 2 GB (XP)
* VIDEO: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
AMD Phenom II X3 Triple-Core 2.8 GHz or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space
If the macbook pro cannot handle the game on a high setting, should I consider the new top-end setting 27" imac, will that be able to handle this game on MAX setting?
