[gui-talk] MSI Wind and Aspire One

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I like the Aspire One keyboard a little better. While the MSI wind has a 
larger keyboard and is easier with many of it's keys, I don't care for 
the size of the comma, period, and slash keys in the bottom right. They 
are a bit narrow for me, and so as I type, I tend to press the slash key 
rather than the period key. Even though the Aspire One keys are a bit 
smaller than the MSI, I've never had an issue pressing the period when I 
need to. Small things, but all in all, aside from the embedded numberpad 
issues the MSI Wind has, it's keyboard is still very nice. What I 
especially like is the size of the shift and enter keys. I also like 
it's management of the battery. You can press fn-key together with f8 I 
believe, or f9 maybe, and adjust how much battery is used. When it's in 
lower-mode, the screen dims and the over-clocking is not used. All in 
all, it's a great buy. What I didn't like about the MSI numlock keyboard 
is if you turn on numlock, the j k l u i o act as 1 2 3 4 5 6 as they 
should, but you don't need to press the fn-key. This is not standard to 
other laptops and makes it quite weird if you are typing a lot of 
numbers and letters at the same time because you can't just type a j and 
get the j, you will get a 1. On most other laptops, when you have the 
numlock on, and you type a j, you still get a j, but if you hold fn-key, 
and j, then you will get the 1. I think the MSI should follow this 
standard, but it does not. That is unfortunate because for me, it's a 
deal breaker. All other things about it are great.

Darrell Shandrow wrote the following on 12/22/2008 11:20 AM:
> Hello Raul,
> 
> How do you like the keyboard on the Aspire One? I know I'm absolutely 
> thrilled with the one on the MSI Wind.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 6:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please
> 
> 
> 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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