[gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please

[albert griffith]

Because you said weight is a consideration I'll mention a new group of lap
tops not discussed much before.  They're called net books.  They weigh
considerably less than standard lap tops unless you consider the real
expensive ones.  You can buy one of these for $300 or so but they have less
drive capacity but you could maintain an external drive you'd synch the lap
top with.  You could go to any big box store and feel one.  Vista isn't so
bad.  You can set it up to feel just like XP.  No matter which lap top you
decide to purchase you'll want two gigs of ram.  There are a number of jaws
friendly antivirus programs on the market and some of them are free.
Remember to see if your ISP offers one as part of their service.  I use
att.yahoo and they do.  Before buying a lap top I'd go to a store that
displays many to get a feel for their keyboards and such.  Many blind people
plug in a standard keyboard anyway.  Just some off the cuff thoughts.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of seville allen
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 8:19 PM
To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
Subject: [gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please

I am shopping for a laptop.  I'd like it to be fairly lightweight
(recognizing that very light may be more money than I have to pay); I don't
care about a high resolution screen, just enough for a seeing technician if
one is needed some time.  I use jfw and currently XP home edition with
outlook and office 2002 home edition. 

I do see that most new computers now run vista which I will learn if I have
to do so.  And some salespeople told me that some business .com sites still
sell xp computers and, according to the salespeople, xp will most likely be
used for a long time by many.  And, what antivirus protection would you
recommend given jfw doesn't like some of the antivirus programs.  
Brand and power, etc recommendations would be helpful.  I'm a pretty good
user and can navigate my way around installing software and doing some
troubleshooting, but the techie talk about ram, drives, processors, etc make
my brain wiggle!  Help from those of you who know these things is welcome.
Thanks. 



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