Mavis Beacon Deluxe 16

Rating:
Summary: If you are buying for use on a Mac, Don't
Review: First off, I am a long time MB user.(yes, you would think my typinng would be better by now...) :)
The program will run on a Mac, but in full screen ONLY and there is no way to "window" it.
The graphics are from 1990's at best.
A few bugs around, like not taking you were you click to go to.
Perhaps it's only the mac ver. that is this lame. But lame it is.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing, but has some good points
Review: I have never attempted to learn touch-typing before. At first this program was great. It gradually walked me through a few letters with the left hand, then a few on the right, then some untimed practice, a few new letters and so on. Then it stopped giving enough time to practice and I had to be fast at keys I was still trying to learn. It's been exceedingly frustrating.

There is some great stuff here. I'm able to type this review without looking at the keyboard, after only a few hours of training with this course. It looks like I'll be able to learn what I need from this tool, but it is a whole lot more painful than it needs to be. I have to believe that there are better tools out there. I'd recommend a little reasearch...

There are lots of lesson/practice options but navigating the UI and finding what you want is very unintuitive.

The UI is low res and profoundly frustrating. In most modes, most of the menus are greyed out and you can't select them. You often have to exit to the main screen to get where you want to go. In most cases there is no "back" button so exiting to the main screen is frequently required.

In nutshell: This software has some good content. You can definitely learn to type this way. But it is somewhat poorly implemented IMHO, and the UI is profoundly lame.

Rating:
Summary: Poor Software Design for the Mac OS X
Review: MB Deluxe 16 will only run under an administrator user account. Borderlund should not be selling this product for OS X until they correct this problem.