[gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please

Mon Dec 22 20:06:20 UTC 2008

You said the key word, in conjunction. The MSI does not do it in 
conjunction with the keyboard. So if numlock is set to on, pressing the 
j key by itself, gives you a 1, all other laptops I've had and worked 
with, you have to hold down dn-key-j to get number 12 while numlock is 
on. When numlock is set to off, fn-key-j performs the end key which in 
Window-Eyes defaults to mouse pointer bottom-left. Sure, I could remap 
the Window-Eyes hot keys, or use an external numpad, but I think this is 
unacceptable.

The other issue with the MSI is that if you try to run a setup program 
from its sd card slot on the right, you get a disk error and you have to 
choose continue, or retry to get going. Unfortunately this includes 
running Window-Eyes mobile. I first noticed it when running the 
Window-Eyes setup program from the sd card to install it on the machine.

Other than that, I love all other features about it.

Darrell Shandrow wrote the following on 12/22/2008 12:43 PM:
> Hello Raul,
> 
> How is the way the MSI Wind handles the numeric keypad any different from 
> other laptops and netbooks? Don't they all pretty much rely on the use of a 
> special FN key in conjunction with the right side of the QWERTY keyboard?
> 
> ----- 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 10:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please
> 
> 
> 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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