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This section acts as a "grab bag" of features that were too small to devote their own sections to, and/or didn't really fit into any existing sections. We list good and bad points for both Mac OS X and Windows XP. Because of the obscurity of these features and the difficulty in assessing their value, this will remain a non-scoring section...
External Devices
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Bluetooth Incomplete!
Both Mac OS X and Windows XP have support for connecting supported hardware and devices via Bluetooth...
Input Devices
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Using the keyboard to navigate and perform various tasks in the operating system can be a great time-saver. This section compares the level of support Mac OS X and Windows XP support controlling the operating system via the keyboard...
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Both Mac OS X and Windows XP contain built-in speech and voice recognition technology. Voice recognition can be used to control your comptuer by using spoken commands, as well as for dictation (although neither OS X nor XP includes this. Dictation is an optional install of Microsoft Office for XP). Both operating systems can also read system dialogs aloud to you...
Internet Features
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With the amount of information you can find on the Internet growing larger and larger everyday, search engines have become an increasingly important tool to help you find what you're looking for. As such, both operating systems offer built-in methods to search the Internet...
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Both Mac OS X and Windows XP (Pro) offer built-in software for setting up and managing a web server from your local system. Having your own web server allows others to access files from your computer over the Internet...
Total weight of this section: 50 points
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