[gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I've seen several. Most have at least 1 sd card slot and at least 2 or 3 
usb ports for external devices. the Acer Aspire One has 2 sd card slots 
and 3 usb ports. The MSI Wind has 1 sd card slot and 3 usb ports. The 
MSI Wind has better power management I think, but it's keyboard has some 
serious issues. I'm not talking about its design meaning that it feels 
right because the keys are big, but the problem with this one is the 
design of how they did the number pad which is embedded in the right 
side of the keyboard. Also, some models of the MSI Wind have bluetooth 
as well as wifi. All of them as far as I know have wifi so that's a 
non-issue for Internet access. They also all have an Ethernet port for a 
wired connection. With a 3-cell battery I can get around 1.5 to 2 hours 
of use, and with a 6-cell battery I can get over 3.5 hours of use with 
Window-Eyes, internet explorer, and/or Firefox.

Of course if you run other things, your millage will vary.

denise avant wrote the following on 12/22/2008 10:10 AM:
> 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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