[gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hello Denise,

The battery life on my MSI Wind with the 6-cell battery is almost five 
hours. That's with wireless turned on, Bluetooth turned off and the screen 
brightness set to its lowest possible level. The Wind has a card reader and 
three USB ports. It also features an ethernet port and a VGA connector for 
video output to an external monitor. You really can't do much better at this 
stage. :-) Netbooks do not have CD-ROM or similar optical drives, due to 
their limited size, but USB works quite nicely for this purpose.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "denise avant" <dravant at ameritech.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please


hi,
io'm just curious for someone who might know, what is the battery life when 
running a screen reader on these computers? are they bluetooth enabled or do 
they have usb ports for connecting braille displays cd or dvd drives? 
thanks.


--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Raul A. Gallegos <raul at asmodean.net> wrote:

From: Raul A. Gallegos <raul at asmodean.net>
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 7:43 AM

The Acer Aspire One is a good buy for around $349.00 in most places.
It's very small, just about 2 pounds in weight and runs with Window-Eyes
just fine.

Good luck.

seville allen wrote the following on 12/21/2008 8:18 PM:
> 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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